Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/04/13

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Subject: [Leica] Was What's in Your Camera Bag, Now OT Maxton Mile Land Speed Race
From: profmason at yahoo.com (John Edwin Mason)
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 08:40:52 -0700 (PDT)

Sonny, Jim, Vince, Nathan, and Hugh, thanks very much for the comments.

> In the late fifties we had two Crosley's, neither were racers, one was a
> wagon and the other was a convertible.

Two, Sonny?  Wow.  Even in Cincinnati, where they'd been built and where I 
grew up in the '60s and '70s, we rarely saw them.

> not much skill involved in this type of racing

You'd be surprised, Nathan.  These cars are running on the ragged edge.  The 
ECTA has a stiff licensing procedure.  Drivers have to demonstrate their 
skill at progressively higher speeds -- the skill needed to recover when 
something goes wrong, which it eventually will.

--John

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John Edwin Mason, Photography:
http://www.JohnEdwinMason.com
Charlottesville and Cape Town


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