08-31-2004, 03:17 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Germantown, TN,
Cobra Make, Engine: Superformance #770, Stroked 351W (393 cubes) w/ Tremec TKO-600, 3.27 Torsen locker, 'Hi-Tech' Blue w/ White Stripes, Wilwoods, Bilstein coil overs...and a big ear-to-ear grin!
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Got mine...!
BTW..Steve...got mine just fine, thank you!
It's funny...but in reading the book, I was taken back to California in the late 50's....my Pop was in the Air Force, and had just been assigned to Travis Air Force Base as a nuclear weapons load officer. Several times during this assignment he took the family out to "Vaca Valley Raceway" to see the sports car races. Although I don't recall any mention of Ken Miles' name, I was only 9 or 10 and I doubt if he ever raced there. Still, I recall the D type "Jag-you-ars", and more than a few Porsche 550 Spyders....even a funny looking red Ferrari with even funnier looking front fenders that tucked back under the front wheels ... everything had wire wheels...a few solid wheels on the Porsches...but, what did I know?
I had no idea that almost 50 years later I'd still be as awestruck as I am now with all the history I was seeing first hand. Man...what a golden time for sports car racing.
Great book, BTW...I'm lovin' it...! Keep it on the coffee table in "my" den...on top of the signed Porsche book "Excellence was Expected". Herr Helmuth Bott signed my Porsche book during a trip to Germany in 1984. Now, I have another piece of history.
Thank you...! Me likee.....
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