[DeTomaso] Nurburgring memories....

[Larry - Ohio Time Corp.]

Chris,

I was a big fan of the racing at Watkins Glen, NY. One summer (73?) during 
the 6 hr race a car spun out and was coming right at me. Unlike you dad I 
was filming with the 8mm. The car was coming to fast and to close, so I 
started to move backwards as I filmed. All the way into the side of 
someone's tent and falling on my ass. The people around me look at me as if 
I was nuts (you guys know better). It turned out I had the camera at full 
zoom and the car was about 100 feet from the fence.

Maybe your Dad knew what he was doing after all.

Larry (will be on my web page someday) - Cleveland


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christopher Kimball" <chrisvkimball at msn.com>
To: <Thomas.Tornblom at hax.se>; <spleen at spamcop.net>
Cc: <detomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 11:54 AM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Nurburgring memories....


> The film reminded me of when I was a kid and my family was in England at
> Silverstone (my mom is English and we spent the summers there every three
> years or so).  As my dad and I watched from close to the track, a car came
> speeding arond a corner, slid out of control and flipped.
>
> It was very exciting to watch (luckily the driver was OK as I remember) 
> but
> to my dad's chagrin, he was so shocked by the whole thing he didn't 
> realize
> until after the crash was over he had been clutching his 8mm camera by his
> side instead of filming!
>
> We have a great movie of a car sitting, upside down AFTER the crash!
>
> Chris
>
>
>>From: Thomas Tornblom <Thomas.Tornblom at hax.se>
>>To: "J. Sean Keane" <spleen at spamcop.net>
>>CC: detomaso at realbig.com
>>Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Nurburgring memories....
>>Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 08:11:04 +0100
>>
>>J. Sean Keane skrev:
>> > Watching some of those crashes really made me sympathize with the 
>> > owners
>> > of those cars.  I can't imagine what you would feel like when you've 
>> > put
>> > your heart and soul into you car and something like that happens.
>> >
>> > However, I have to say, anything that takes that many Citroens off the
>> > road can't be all bad.
>>
>>I don't know what film you saw, but I didn't see a single Citroën in the
>>one Mike referenced. A few Renaults, but otherwise mostly VW, BMW and a
>>few NSU Prinz.
>>
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> > Sean
>>
>>Cheers,
>>Thomas
>>
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