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Subject: [Leica] Congratulations to...
From: glehrer at san.rr.com (Jerry Lehrer)
Date: Sun Apr 13 15:59:39 2008
References: <30db39f20804130929v3f1f96eeo5e2a5a4553b08e@mail.gmail.com>

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
>
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