Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/04/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Robert, I was at the British GP in 1992 and 1994. Also in 1959, when it was easy to get a Paddock Pass. I never heard the expression petrol-head, but I have owned sports cars since 1952. Brings back memories of the Prince of Darkness. Jerry Robert D. Baron wrote: > Charlie Chan wrote: > > >> I wonder how many of us are closet (or maybe overt) petrolheads. >> > > and also: > > >> I grew up in Canterbury in the UK. This is only about 60 miles from >> > Brands Hatch and so I went a lot in the 70s and 80s to Brands at the > time when I suppose Frank was working with Williams. > > Now my continuing curiosity about the smallness of the world and the > breadth of the LUG is aroused. > > In 1972 I was at the British Grand Prix at Brands Hatch. It remember > it in part because that was a much more casual time; you could buy a > Paddock Pass (that's what we called them in the States, anyway) and > wander around....I remember in particular a conversation I had with > Peter Revson in the McLaren paddock (a roped off area in the grass!) > about his racing in the TransAm sedan series over here.... > > In 2004 I took a Porsche Driving School course at a racetrack in > Alabama. One of my instructors was a young (to me) Brit named Chris > Hall. We got to talking and learned he was also at that race (as a > teenager) and he reminded me that Emerson Fittipaldi won it in a > Lotus. (http://grandprix.com/gpe/rr215.html) > > Now my question: how many LUGers were at that race? > > On topic: I shot color slides with an M3. I wonder where they are > today... > > --Bob Baron / Oklahoma City > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >