Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/04/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]John, My favorite Crosley memory comes from my college years, the late 40s. Two brothers, one of whom was my classmate in engineering classes, had a Crosley. One evening, I seem to recall that it was Halloween, a group of large guys lifted the Crosley and carried it up the steps and placed it on the second-floor porch of the YMCA building. I wasn't around to see how it was retrieved. Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Edwin Mason" <profmason at yahoo.com> To: "LUG" <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 10:40 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] Was What's in Your Camera Bag,Now OT Maxton Mile Land Speed Race > 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 > > ****************************** > John Edwin Mason, Photography: > http://www.JohnEdwinMason.com > Charlottesville and Cape Town > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >