My wife found that book thru an ad in Autoweek long before the internet was reliable source of stuff. I got it as a birthday or christmas present. I will sell the SpecMiata or the GTO before that book. I have even read it! About the only thing that would make it better would be a Roger Penske signature to go with it.
that is a smart move sir...if I had one, I certainly would not sell it.
maroon92 wrote: Randy Pobst Thread/
x2. I was about to say that I raced against him back in his SCCA IT days, but after remembering all I ever saw was a blue flag, and then his taillights growing closer together very quickly. Lemme just say we were on the track at the same time.
4eyes wrote: Andreas Nikolaus "Niki" Lauda. Any of the "old Unsers" I remember when Pike's Peak was nicknamed Unser Mountain+69 for Michelle Mouton
I can't find the quote, but I recall one of the other drivers saying racing against Lauda was like playing with a very large snake in a very small back yard.
And another vote for Michelle.
Alex Zanardi - balls down to the ground.
Lesley wrote: Alex Zanardi - balls down to the ground.
+1... what a man...
This gives you tingles... if you turn down the sappy soundtrack.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgMz33lc7Dc
Not only did he finish his race, his time was fast enough to qualify.
Jay_W wrote: Michelle Mouton should top the list, not just for coming *this* close to winning the championship (damn the unreliability of her car) but for saying, at the top of Pike's Peak after she got the overall win, "if you guys had any balls, you'd race back down"..
I can't remember who it was, but I once read about a couple of 1960s era guys who did race each other on the way down...they were supposed to be simply coasting down the mountain with their engines off after their runs, but they still wanted to see who could get to the bottom first. It could have been Foyt and someone else, I'd have to look it up.
fastmiata wrote: My wife found that book thru an ad in Autoweek long before the internet was reliable source of stuff. I got it as a birthday or christmas present. I will sell the SpecMiata or the GTO before that book. I have even read it! About the only thing that would make it better would be a Roger Penske signature to go with it.
I also have an original copy of UA. Mine isn't signed by Mark, but is signed by Penske. I do, however, have a cool photo of the IROC RSRs signed by both Mark and Roger. Another cool piece of Mark memorabilia that I have is a hand written letter to a fan(written way back in 1971) explaining how to modify his AMX. perhaps the funniest part of the letter is when Mark states the following about rear spoilers on street cars, "it won't make any difference on the street, but they sure look cool!"
1.Jim Hurtubise ----In 1964, after suffering serious burns in an accident during the Rex Mays Classic, in Milwaukee, doctors asked Hurtubise how he wanted his hands shaped permanently. "Just make 'em so I can hold a steering wheel," he replied.
2.Jacky Ickx----I think he's much better known in Europe. 25 podiums in F1, a win at the Paris-Dakar Rally and 6 LeMans wins and yet, he's not that well known in N. America. He also won the Bathurst 1000 in a car he'd hardly driven. He has a daughter who runs endurance events these days.
3.----One of my favourite amateur drivers is Tivvy Shenton, a fellow vintage racer here in the eastern US. If you ever get to see him run his old Jag XK-140 at the Pittsburgh Vintage GP at Sheneley Park, you'll see why so many of us eastern vintage racers respect him. He's an absolute master of the street course. By the way, when he bought that old Jag it had a Chevy six with Powerglide in it.
Bruce MacInnes: incredible amatuer talent who never made it to the big show. I did my first Skippy school with him, Jeremy Dale and Duck Waddell. I learned a lot on the track but the stories told were great too. Just ask my wife about the van ride at Sebring.
aeronca65t wrote: Jacky Ickx----.
Dang right. The Belgian fellow who showed me how to build engines used to co-drive with Ickx in a rally Cortina, and spoke very highly of him. He told me they didn't have cones; they made chicanes our of hay bales in the road. (public roads) That was before his F1 days. He could drive the wheels off of anything.
NYG95GA wrote:aeronca65t wrote: Jacky Ickx----.Dang right. The Belgian fellow who showed me how to build engines used to co-drive with Ickx in a rally Cortina, and spoke very highly of him. He told me they didn't have cones; they made chicanes our of hay bales in the road. (public roads) That was before his F1 days. He could drive the wheels off of anything.
Jacky reunited with the 312B in which he'd been a contender in the World Championship:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmRc59fvGuM
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