Sunday, December 12, 2010

Well Look what I found (wife found) Racing history

Well it's amazing what you will find when you do some pre Xmas cleanup around the house. My wife asked me waht was in this envelope and I looked inside and said Wholy s---! (crap). These were pictures of a racecar that my dad built a roll cage in in our driveway. The guys that crewed on thie car worked with my dad and he was a welder so he was asked if he could build a roll cage. These pics brought back many memories as I remember the car in the driveway for weeks and my dad working on it after work and on weekends. I remember we were so excited to have a race car in the driveway for so many weeks!
It was sponsored by a local bar on the outskirts of Victoria, B.C. called the Six Mile, which was minutes from the local racetrack Western Speedway. My brother and I were so jealous that my Dad has his name on the car that we complained ours wasn't on there as we helped dad in the driveway on the car. So eventually on the taillights we each had our names painted on, one on each taillight. When dad finished the rollbar he took my brother and I for a spin around the neighborhood in it. Of course those were years ago and times have changed as we couldn't do that now with all the whiners in the world but it was cool at the time.

One day at work about 15 years ago when I lived in Victoria and was working at the same place as my dad and the guys that worked on this car, LArry came up to me and said I thought you might like these. It was these pics of this car which I was about 7 or 8 or 9 when it was being built and it was here from which I got my Racing bug and have been a racing fan ever since as we used to go to the track and watch it race every weekend.