DrivingEnthusiast.net Prior Blog Posts by Date DRIVING: that's what it's ALL ABOUT! A blog and website for automotive driving enthusiasts, featuring my interests as I see them: news and opinion about manufacturers of interest, significant enthusiast cars, and driving them hard and well. June 2006 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat         1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30   May   Jul RSS Feed for DrivingEnthusiast.net About DrivingEnthusiast.net Index of prior posts by title Use this calendar to navigate thru prior blog postings by date. Saturday, June 03, 2006    Rolex Sports Cars at the 'Glen   I've been watching this race on the Speed channel today...  It's a rain day in the Finger Lakes area of New York State today, and watching the event brings back a lot of memories from the last 25 years I've "known" Watkins Glen. In the late eighties, for example, I was working an IMSA 24-hour endurance event at the 'Glen as a Pit Marschall. During this late October event, first it started to get cold and then it started to snow and I had the night shift. I was really frozen! I remember getting a break around 2 AM and going into the workers tent where they had a "torpedo" heater setup for us. I was grateful for that... especially since (due to a shortage of workers) I had to work thru the entire night and into the morning anyway. And then be back for the end of the race. Not that I could sleep - it was too cold to go into my own tent so I had cat-napped earlier in the back of my car ('86 Mustang GT hatchback - there was diagonally enough room to sleep in the back!). Late that Sunday afternoon, drving back home, I was too tired to think about the event, and I probably had a cold for weeks, but I do know I had a lot of fun that weekend! And, a lesson learned: when it comes to the weather, anything that can possibly happen will eventually happen at Watkins Glen. View and add comments: Trackback: Trackback Link and count:;[] Permalink for this post:  See similar posts in these categories: My Events | Track - Watkins Glen Search for similar posts on the web: Google It! RSS Feed for DrivingEnthusiast.net About DrivingEnthusiast.net  The Truth About Cars: Henry Ford?   In all the years I've been in this hobby, I've never understood Henry Ford. I see so many conflicting elements:  Entrepreneur, genius, inventor Socialist Racist First pro- then anti-labor Hitler admirer ???? There is no easy answer, but one way to start trying to understand him would be by driving the Model T.... Continue at source: The Truth About Cars View and add comments: Trackback: Trackback Link and count:;[] Permalink for this post:  See similar posts in these categories: Ford Motor Corporation Search for similar posts on the web: Google It! RSS Feed for DrivingEnthusiast.net About DrivingEnthusiast.net
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