[Leica] Congratulations to...

[frank.dernie at btinternet.com (FRANK DERNIE)]

I was ;-)
Frank

--- "Robert D. Baron" <rbaron@concentric.net> 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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