Hey......on a totally unrelated topic, has anyone from any of the Kit Car magazines (or, better yet, Excellence or Car and Driver or Road and Track) been informed of the upcoming exploits of our Suby-tub commander, John (as in Hoss) Hallstrand??????
This is going to be a remarkable adventure, to be sure, to make the runs to BOTH West and East coast events within a months time, and one worthy of getting some national/international press coverage - maybe we can get someone from the Speed Channel to interview him at both events! I think Hoss is a hellofa lot more interesting than Barry McGuire (and far less struck on himself, too), although he may be stiff (and deaf) and sun burned by the time he gets to Carlisle!!
We, as a semi-organized group, should be helping to do some contingency planning for John along the way, too. We've heard what his route is, so maybe we can begin to refine it a little, leave some leeway in there for him but get folks along the way organized for help if he needs it or just for someone to meet him and drive along with him for a ways and buy him a coffee or Mountain Dew or a can of Red Bull.
We know that Chris has volunteered to be "Mission Control" for John as he did for Jim Ward last year, and provide semi-real-time progress reports, and that's terrific, but to have folks lined up along the way would be even better. This is four days on the road one-way, people!!!! Let's get some volunteer support going, here!!!
I'll get together with John tomorrow (it's getting past my bedtime here now) and refine the basic route down to half-day chunks and report back tomorrow so we can let people know where he'll be, and then organize a "Where's Hoss?" support structure to keep track of him as he hurtles over the road on his quest for the "Dead Ass Award" at both meets.
E.C. Bruce: What can we do for press coverage??
Gordon (and Chris)
Mission Control for "Where's Hoss?" (and "Where's Jim-Bob, too!)
