The last place you would expect to see a 450sl… doing well on a racetrack. That’s yours truly smiling like the Cheshire Cat (in the car my parents are currently driving across the continent with a gremlin in the electrical system.) I’m smiling because I just turned in the second fastest time of the day on the road course at Gainesville Speedway in Florida at the 2004 Forza Amelia. Dad & I also won that event with a Perfect Zero score.
The modern Ferrari you see in the background later trounced us all and dropped me to third place on the track day. Oh well. The real victory was beating a bunch of better cars (and experienced drivers!) in a slush-box equipped boulevard cruiser! I don’t claim to be a great track driver, I have very little experience “driving in anger”, I just happened to take the right line and be very lucky that day.
We’ll be rallying again soon, which is the reason he’s ferrying the car to Vermont. We’ll be once again trying to win the New England 1000, and event that we have done together four other times over the past eleven years. As always I’ll post nightly updates once the rally begins in late May. Hopefully the demons infesting the Bosch bits will be flushed out by then!
Well, excellent; I’m planning on riding along for a few days in the RPM breakdown truck; I look ofrward to meeting you.
Likewise! See you there.
Chuck, you have a *great* look, in a helmet!
There was once a cartoon character, Stroker McGurk…and ALL I can think of is him, when I see pics of you in a helmet!
Most importantly, you *always* look like yer havin’a ball, which is *ALL* that counts!
Nice…maybe now I’ll get the sl the wife has wanted for a long time. Might have to drive it on odd or even days down the road. Humm, I wonder if a 380 or 560 would do as well.
hey… is that Ed Deckys? Long time no speak!