01-26-2003, 08:38 AM
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Senile Club Cobra Member
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Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Buffalo, NY USA,
NY
Cobra Make, Engine: Superformance
Posts: 4,575
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Oscar K. contd.
Bill,
I have a vivid memory of the first time I met Oscar. I was a crew "gofer" for Warren Agor Racing who had just bought Oscars McLaren and had entered it in the Watkins Glen Can-Am circa 1972. Oscar was hanging around giving us advice about the car, etc. As was his PRDA jokester style he had a set of candy wax "vampire teeth" that he would attempt to bite peoples necks with. He did this to Denny "The Bear" Hulme and Hulme told him to "bugger off" One of the McLaren crew guys told us only Oscar could get away with this as he had been a McLaren customer. Anybody else would have been b!tch slapped!
This was the era when I discovered that being a crew member was not as glamorous as I had thought. Now that I had become one of the guys I had admired from the other side of the fence I now knew the truth. The guy at the fence admiring me during the day was now at night rolling around his tent with his girlfriend while I was cleaning greasy parts and eating oil soaked cold sandwiches. The idea was much better than the reality.
Rick
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