Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Steve, serious apologies. I misread. You are quite right. It was a very different time. People did race for fun. Even the professionals. Under heavy braking during practice, I put a hole in the radiator of my TR3 at Stockton 40 minutes before my race. Everyone in our group pitched in, stripped off the nose of my car and another TR3, pulled both radiators, put my friend's in my car (and someone ran my radiator to a shop to be rewelded), stuck the nose back on and I was on the grid in time for my race. Today......fuggetaboutit. Sorry for the miscall. Seth 365 GTC - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve LeHuray" <steve@streetphoto.net> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 4:26 PM Subject: Re: Re[2]: [Leica] OT: Frank Dernie back at Williams > > From: "Steve LeHuray" <steve@streetphoto.net> > > > >> ....yeah, back in those days sportsman racers were the rule, even F1. > >> > >> sl > > > > Right Steve, rich sportsmen like Juan Manuel Fangio, the Argentine mechanic > > who started in racing with a beat-up Chevrolet over mountain passes, > > Stirling Moss, Karl Kling, Hermann Lang and John Fitch, all wealthy > > gentleman sports guys. ;-) Of course, outside the Mercedes-Benz racing > > team, there were gentleman racers. But Alfred Neubauer and Rudolf Uhlenhaut > > were interested in winning and one drove for M-B only if one was a > > world-class racer. They did on occasion reserve a seat for a very good but > > not world-class driver for reasons of nationality, not wealth. > > > > Seth 365 GTC > > > > Seth -- by "sportsman racers" I meant that the age of sponsorship had not > arrived yet the way it is now. > > Here I am, #7, in my 'self' sponsored SCCA days: > > http://www.streetphoto.net/images/im49.jpg > > Here are my 'poor man's Ferraris': > > http://www.streetphoto.net/images/im103.jpg > > Aw, for the good old days! > > sl > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html