Danny and Lenny! Now you almost have the feeling of being a spotter on top of the grandstand at Daytona!
Well, we got there late Saturday afternoon and decided NOT to go to the park (it was around 5pm when we arrived) and went, instead, to a local restaurant where we had GREAT food and dropped a Ben Franklin on dinner for the two of us, but we sat with Peter and the Gallos', so it was an evening well worth a C-note. Saturday night thunder storms were epic....EPIC, I say! Thought the roof of the B&B was gonna blow right off! Lasted from around 1am to 3 am and, HOLY GOD! Was it ever a huge Thunder Storm!!
Sunday we got to the track about 9:30 am, had breakfast at one of the pit-side roach coaches (it was easily as good as Carlisle) and started walking around the track to see the cars (which were lined up in classes all around the track). Saw a "Herbie" VW bug and wondered if it belonged to SOC'er, Michelle Milczanowski (it did). Kathy pooped out about half-way, so we hopped a "shuttle Kart", golf-cart-thingie, which had a real hard time making it up the uphill on the far back turn, but eventually got us to the "50 years of Porsche" stretch where a few of the TYP356NE folks were set up. One hell of a lot of Porsches lined up along there, but not a whole lot of 356's, all things considered. It was a striking contrast, though, to see the 356's and then look at a 2013 GT. Like looking at a rocket from the future.
We also toured the featured collection of Cunningham cars. They only made something like 32 of them and, to be perfectly honest, even when I had the money, I would NEVER have bought one of those ugly things. I'm sorry, but I have to say it. Just a really ugly car with a Chrysler V8 in it (just like a lot of Chrysler cars back then, too!) We didn't see any other SOC'ers for the rest of Sunday, but we left shortly after lunch as it began off-and-on showers (some heavy at times) for the rest of the afternoon, so we went off to Rhinebeck, NY, to a winery and then back to the B&B.
The lady running the B&B formed a new definition of the word "Character". When we left on Sunday she was out in front of the house along the main road, wearing a full-length, white linen Mou-Mou thing and waving at all of her friends from town driving by. Apparently, she really does know all of those folks and they all think she's really cool (at least, according to the bartender at the restaurant we went to) so, "What the hell!" I now think she's cool, too. After all, she's 15 years older then me, and at that age she can do whatever-the-hell she wants.
A little bit about Lime Rock Park. It's out in the middle of absolutely no where, BUT, it's the most affluent part of no where you all have ever seen. Two hours from New York City or Boston and some of the most affluent horse farms I've ever seen (even in Ireland) and plunked in the middle of it all is a 1.5-mile race-car course. We could ride around that area for DAYS and never get bored - it is absolutely GORGEOUS out there!!
Anyway, maybe some more SOC folks can show up next year and enjoy this terrific show. Now that I've seen the car show, I'll go back for the racing days for the first time since 1968 (when I was there last).
Gordon
The Speedstah Guy from Grafton
