I was looking for a set of photos from an event in 1999 earlier today and stumbled upon this image from May of 1998. It was taken at the end of the New England 1000, where my Dad & I won our class in our first outing together in the 65E. The car was pretty fresh from it’s initial restoration and my Dad was freshly retired. I was living in the UK back then, but flew over to the east coast for the week. We had a blast!
While it was not really the start of either of our “car guy” lives, it certainly was the start of a very important era for the two of us. It has been over 10 years since that photo was taken. We’re both older, and a bit wiser. We’ve been on many many rallies since. From cost-to-coast “Vanishing Point” high-speed adventures, to weekend evil puzzlers. We still do our best to get out and have a blast. 😉
I hope to do at least two rallies with my Dad again this year, so stay tuned.
If you are terminally curious, I can dig up the URL for my very first rally report. Let me know.
I can certainly see the family lineage, CG! Nice foto!
I think I have photos from the ’98 NE1000…I’ll do some digging, too.
Chuck- Saw your name in SCM as a Colorado Grand participant. I think it was in the January issue.
No, not me, nor my Dad. He’s done “The Grand” many times (in his XK 120 and 300sl) but did not go last year.
I have only participated once, which was in September 2005. You can read that rally report here.
My mistake. It was actually the January issue. They had a list of SMC’ers in the NW Classic. The Colorado Grand list was in the February issue.
That makes sense, as we both appeared there. I noted that SCM tagged us with dad’s “home town” despite the rally having us being from mine.