Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/04/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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