Dick Smith Killed in Plane crash

[big-boss]

Back in about 1989, I took my fresh Butler Racing Cobra to the Tulare "Cars in The Park" first show. They put me in the "racing cars" catagory while I was sitting over there with some drag car or whatever. This young smart azz restoration guy (Gordon Levy) pushs old 198 over and set up next to me- paint was still wet. I understood Dick promised to have the car in the show- Gordon made it happen. The was one of the best days in my Cobra life hanging out all day with Dick & his wife and Gordon. Gordon was a little ticked about being next to a "Kit Car" but as we all know he got over it. DIck did not care at all- he was as curious about my car as I was his. He was a real guy, solid man of character. I saw him a couple of months ago we started talking about airplanes and he finally realized who my brother was and he promply spun a few yarns in that direction.
Neat thing is we will all celebrate his life through our Cobra adventures for years to come. I believe everybody will miss him- weather you knew him or not. He is a legend, that simple.