Motorsports Newsletter 4/09/25

By Richard Parks

1) EDITOR’S CORNER: Today we discuss printing and publishing your book by using a publisher (editor, reviewer, promoter, printer, finisher) and the rule here is add some big dough to the cost of your book. 1) The adage is, “you get what you pay for.” For any decent publisher (individual helping you) or Publishing House such as Motorbooks, CarTech, EVRO Publishing, etc, you can expect to pay them an hourly rate or 50 to 60% of the books price (or more). If you are famous, which 99.999% of us are not, then the publisher pays YOU for the opportunity. 2) If you don’t like being a writer, photographer, captioner, editor, reviewer, typist, promotional expert, then look for a good publisher and pay them. 3) Publishers will offer you an hourly rate or simply guestimate their expenses and tell you that your $19.99 book needs to be repriced at $69.99. Try arguing with them and they’ll add on a charge for “a neutral facilitator.” 4) Publishers will find the printer, promote your book in their catalog, do editing and spare you from much of the work. Pay them enough and they will find a co-writer (ghost writer) who will write your book for you. We call such authors who use co-writers, “couch authors.” Pay even more and they’ll do the book without you. Don’t skip on quality; some publishers are worse than I am and that’s really awful. If you have the dough and need help, don’t need income from your work, then this is the way to go. Publishing is not easy. I have reviewed this newsletter a dozen times or more and yet I still find mistakes and the computer is pure evil. See how simple publishers make it. I’ll still nag you to write your book.

AND: All links in the newsletter need to be copied and pasted into your browser in order to work.

EDITOR: Hidden Garages sent this video to us about Randy Haapala’s mesmerizing HotRod Garage. It’s on YouTube at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWQY4W2L_Bo&t=14s. Those of us who knew Randy miss his kind and jovial character. Here is a chance to see and hear him in his favorite garages full of wonderful memories that take us back to an earlier era of our youth. Thanks to Bill Montgomery and Rodney Allen Rippy of Hidden Garages and Hidden Pioneers. My father (Wally), son (Scott) and I (Richard) appreciate what Bill and Rodney do to spread the message of hot rodding, motorsports and technology in our school systems around the nation. Unless we get the schools to include vocational and blue collar trades our children will miss out on careers that are vitally needed today.

2) REMEMBERING OUR LOST FRIENDS DEPARTMENT:

a) Russell “Noisy” Johnson first got involved in the Albany Classic Around the Houses in early 2000’s, he started as a track set up volunteer after his brother-in-law asked him to come along. He proceeded on to being boss of the ‘chain gang’ chaining all the blocks together on all the corners. He joined the committee of the Albany Classic Motorsport Club sometime later and as well as the chains became the recovery vehicle driver for the event. Russell passed away on Wednesday night 26th February 2025.
‘Russell was a person you could always go to ask to help with anything and he was always willing and always a very enthusiastic person. ‘RIP Russell Johnson.’ The VSCC (Western Australia) offers its deepest condolences to his wife, Jude Johnson.

a) Brett Boughton sent this tribute to Jim Krajancich to Vintage Metal (Western Australia). As WA car enthusiasts know, Jim Krajancich was “the Bugatti man,” he ate, slept, drew, cast, filed and dreamed about Bugattis. There is a large cadre of Bugatti enthusiasts around the world, but I would wager that Jim was one of the most knowledgeable and ardent Bug enthusiasts.

His enthusiasm was contagious, and he shared his passion with many interested car people. Jim was a highly inventive engineer though he did not have any formal engineering training.

3) WE GET MAIL AND OOPS DEPARTMENT:

a) John Massingberd was the executive producer of Canada’s first nationally syndicated motorsport radio program, the Raceline Radio Network, along with Erik Tomas. This show has been the only one of its kind in Canada. John also co-produced and was the featured anchor and moderator on Snowtrax Television, a syndicated snowmobile program viewed throughout North America. Bruce F. Mehlenbacher, Pro Modified Racing Association (PMRA) at Bruce.

b) The International Motor Racing Research Center presents: “Straight Line Speed-the History of Niagara Dragway.” A day of memories, stories, photos and more as seen thru the eyes of Dean Johnson, Promoter, Niagara Dragway, 1964-1974. On display will be a 1963 AA/Top Fuel Dragster “Dead End Kids.” Free and open to the public on Saturday, May 10, 2025, from 1pm at International Motor Racing Research Center (IMRRC), 610 South Decatur Street, Watkins Glen, NY. Relive the history of drag racing in western NY. Call: 607-535-9044 or email: kip or www.racingarchives.org. From Kip Zeiter

c) This is one of my most challenging works, Greenland Domes; Daggers and Grozny Demons (screenplay). 868 pages and 345,723 words (2 languages doubles the size). I promised the publisher by May. I need to do a polish edit on it. But writing it I worked hard at is so hopefully I do not have to over polish it. Paul D. Escudero

EDITOR: Paul is a long-time reader of my newsletters who is professional in all things that move fast. He is also a top Sci-Fi writer who adds planes, cars, trucks, railroads, spaceships and lots of skullduggery to his stories.

d) Burt “BS” Levy is hard at work on his next book. Burt’s at Think Fast Ink, PO Box 7488, Westchester, Illinois, 60154.

e) I am overwhelmed with the amount of information that you have on all of these people. Would I be imposing to ask for the rest of the alphabet? There are names on the first A-D that I have aways wondered about and I now have a source to read about them. I know a lot of older racers and I am wondering if you would like stories about them for your records. I’d be happy to call a few of them if you want that information. Brent Cannon

BRENT: The stories are on the way in 12 emails. Please feel free to resend them to whomever would enjoy the stories. I would be honored to include the stories and bios of your friends in the Gone Racin’ Archives. Send them in when you can.

f) If anyone has info on Rod Flint and his photos it would be Dave Wallace Jr. Other photographers whom I recall shooting at San Fernando include Don Varian and Kaye Trapp who shot mainly feature material. Kaye primarily worked for the studios and was partners with Ronnie Winkle in the Kent Fuller-built ‘MagiCar‘ that Bill Pitts resurrected and became the nucleus of the ‘cackle car’ movement. From Bill Holland

BILL: Here’s a new project. Readers, send me stories and histories on photographers in motorsports for the Gone Racin’ Archives which I store. We shouldn’t forget photographers. Robin Millar is also looking for stories on cartoonists. My father was one of the funniest, wry and humorous of cartooning. His work is mainly lost, but I’ve saved a few of them.

g) Richard, thank you for the review. The subscription price is $40US, $45Canada and $65foreign. This is our 26th year and we have contributors that have been with us from the start. Some are Jim Hume, Marlo Treit, Steve Reyes and contributors around the US and abroad. Phil Morris GASSER WARS MAGAZINE.

h) I truly enjoy your newsletter, thanks for your good work. Would really like a copy of the biographies of Jim and Bob Brissette if it’s not too much trouble to send. Joe Nowocinski
JOE: You will find Jim and Bob Brissette’s story in section A-D in the WALLY AND BARBARA PARKS STORY: We Did It Our Way…Stories & Biographies #11. There are also more stories that you may find interesting. For the entire 11 volume history just let me know and I will send it to you by email. Enjoy, these are special people.

i) For what it’s worth, I dabbled a wee bit as a cartoonist and even had a panel published in Hot Rod magazine circa 1967. When I became editor of National Dragster, I pitched your dad on running cartoons; he would have nothing of it. He really had it in for Pete Millar, especially the flies that were buzzing around in his cartoons. I really admired the way Pete could capture a person with a few strokes of the pen. I had Millar do several cartoon-style ads for my clients. The ‘Isky Toons‘ that Pete did for Ed Iskenderian were certainly popular. Bill Holland

BILL: I admit to sneaking in Millar’s comics and laughing hilariously. Dad was an excellent and wry cartoonist too and sent back drawings from the Pacific during World War II. The “second” generation of Millars’ and Parks’ are close friends. As Dad once told me, “Your feelings do not have to be the same as my feelings.” The whole story of the CARtoons and my father can be found in the Wally & Barbara Parks Story; We Did It Our Way.

j) This is really some work that you have put together. I am so looking forward to diving in and absorb the missing pieces of my knowledge. Thank you so much for sharing. All of this history is remarkable how you have it all together. Brent Cannon

BRENT: I blame all that I have researched and written on laziness. I was a lousy typist until the computer era, when the ease of the machine turned me into a writing beast. My hat is off to all the old-style reporters who had to lug around a heavy typewriter from one race to another. They are the really committed stars.

k) Spider Razon at L&R was a great supplier to us back in the day. If I remember right, his son or maybe Grandson was learning the business so Spider could slow it down a bit. Great guy I loved working with and learning from. From Ron Funfar

RON: Maybe we can get Spider to write down some of his stories for us and I will put it in the Gone Racin’ Archives for everyone to see. In my bucket list for the next life, I hope to work with every manufacturer (for at least a few months) so I can learn about the people that made motorsports what it is today.

l) I would like to take advantage of your offer for copies of the biographies for the following three Dry Lakes and Bonneville Racers: Brissette Bros (Bob and Jim), Tom Bryant and Bill Burke. Thank you for all that you do. Miler Mike Stewart

Miler Mike: Better yet, I am sending you all the stories and biographies in the Gone Racin’ Archives. Enjoy.

m) I just wanted to endorse Gasser Wars magazine. Phil Morris is a printer, and it shows in the quality of his publications. A deep love of Drag Racing and Gassers motivated the name change from the beloved Anglia News and expansion of coverage. Advertising opportunities abound. See their displays at the March Meet and Hot Rod Reunions. Rob Frazier

ROB: I’m glad you wrote in and added your opinion to the review. Yes, it is a fine magazine.

n) “An anonymous reader wrote in that it is important to have signage directing people to where restrooms and other parts of museum, car shows, car racing and other events are.”

Anonymous: Speaking on behalf of the elderly this is an important issue. My father always stressed safety, good entertainment, clean restrooms and short lines.

o) “Ticket Pricing, the Good, the Bad and Where have We Gone Wrong.” From Racing Promotion Monthly, March 2025 edition, www.Promotersnewsletter.com.

4) STORIES OR BIOGRAPHIES IN THE GONE RACIN’ ARCHIVES: Just write and ask for a free emailed copy (Editor).

CALLOWAY, George and Jan……2008

CALORI, Jack……2008

CALZIA, Jim……2015

CANNON Brothers, Ted, Dick & John……2008

CANNON, Chic……NO DATE

CAPANNA, Tony; Red WILSON & Al SHARP also WILCAP……NO DATE

CARMELO, Diane……2012

CARTER, Wild Bill……2017

5) BOOKS AVAILABLE FOR SALE:

a) Toyota Yaris WRC The full story of the Toyota Gazoo Racing WRC campaign, by Peter Lyon & Brian Long. £50/$70, Hardback, 20.7x25cm, 240 pages, 500 pictures. Write to newsletter.

b) COMING SOON An appreciation of the incredible racing performances that occurred between 1900 and 1955, when Daimler-Benz withdrew from Grand Prix and Sports car racing. £150/$200, Hardback, 30x25cm, 592 pages, 1300 pictures. Write to newsletter.

c) Books from Coastal 181 bookstore at www.coastal181.com or 877-907-8181: The Pfrommer Offy: A History of An Iconic Sprint Car, by Alan F. Gross.

Books and Manuals from CarTech Publishing, 6118 Main Street, North Branch, Minnesota 55056, 1-800-551-4754,

d) www.CarTechBooks.com. Ford Small-Block Engine Parts Interchange, by George Reid. How to Swap Ford Modular Engines into Mustangs, Torinos and More, by Dave Stribling.

e) Showroom Stock, by Dave Wolin. The story of showroom stock racing – 280 pages – 8 1/2 x 11 / B7W -From the beginnings of racing, where everything was showroom stock, through SCCA Club Racing, Nelson Ledges Longest Day, Pro Endurance Racing: Playboy Escort and Firehawk, Racetrucks. The story of showroom stock racing – 280 pages – 8 1/2 x 11 / B7W -From the beginnings of racing, where everything was showroom stock, through SCCA Club Racing, Nelson Ledges Longest Day, Pro Endurance Racing; Playboy Escort and Firehawk, Racetrucks, Renault Cup, Volkswagen Cup and Corvette Challenge Spec Racing – Includes a DVD with all the photos, newspaper and magazine articles, videos and more.

6) EVENTS, SHOWS, MUSEUMS, TOURS, REUNIONS, SHERM PORTER’S CALENDAR AND MORE:

a) CAL-RODS car club 14th Annual “Run with a Winner” car show returns to Santa Anita Park, May 17, 2025. A car show on the infield grass during horse racing at Santa Anita. Show cars on display, all makes & models, live music by The Gaslighters, trophies & special awards, huge raffle, food & vendors, pony rides & bounce house. Show car registration: $40 pre-registration (includes 4 passengers). 626-827-3744 or email Gary Driscoll at gdriscoll. From news.

b) Record Entry for HSR Sebring Classic 12 Hour Presented by Mission Foods Delivers Record Results. Next up on the 2025 HSR schedule is the 47th HSR Mitty presented by Hagerty at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta (MRRA), April 24-27, 2025. For more information on the HSR Mitty, please visit the Official Event Page at www.HSRRace.com. Adam Saal

c) The inaugural HSR Classic Endurance Championship presented by Mission Foods will be the HSR Watkins Glen Classic 6-Hour race presented by Mission Foods, June 12-14, 2025, at Watkins Glen International. From Adam Saal, at 321-890-2848, or

d) San Clemente High School Auto Shop’s Meet the Industry & Car Show at SCHS Auto Academy, 700 Avenida Pico, San Clemente, CA 92673, April 19, 2025, 11am-2pm. kntuckerking.

e) 30th Cruisin’ Brea, June 15, 2025, 10am-4pm, Birch Street in Downtown Brea, CA. From: news.

f) 2025 International Speedsters Trials & Reunion – Registration Now Open. June 18-21, 2025. Event includes hill climb, tech seminars, road tour, awards dinner. Contact Museum of American Speed, 599 Oak Creek Drive, Lincoln, Nebraska 68528 or museum.

g) The Crookwell “Rolling Chrome Show” was held on Saturday, February 22, 2025; VSA NSW static display. Article and photos by Alan Mace. Club members attending were Shane and Nicole Fullagar, Alan Mace, Dave Hunt, Terry Young, Darryn Young, Jeff Freeman plus Pat Heaton, Norm Smith and Mark put on a good display. On display was a restored Formula 500 and a Legend Car. The cars were well received by the organisers of the event. Lots of children had photos taken sitting in the speedcars. One young man with lots of challenges in a wheelchair came along with his lady carer and was very interested in Dave Hunt’s stock rod. Dave asked, “would you like to sit in it,” the young man smiled as Dave was opening the door of the stock rod. They got him out of his wheelchair and into Dave’s car which took a lot of time. Then Dave started up #76, and the smile of the young man’s face was priceless. The Vintage Speedcar Association Newsletter. PO Box 73 Wentworthville, New South Wales, Australia, 2145. 249th Edition – Issue 4, February/March 2025. From John & Maria Green.

h) Tri-5 Car Show, Featuring California Nomads, & Hot Rodders of Tomorrow West Coast Competiton, West Coast High School, Saturday, May 3, 2025, 9am-3pm. Lions Automobilia Foundation, 2790 E Del Amo Blvd, East Rancho Dominguez, CA 90221-6008. From The Lion’s Roar Newsletter.

i) Saturday, April 26, 2025, Pete Lyons will hold a book signing from 11am-3pm, for his book, My Travels on Racer Road; Can-Am and Formula 1 in Their Golden Age, Foreword by Jackie Stewart, Epilogue by Mario Andretti. Autobooks-Aerobooks, 2900 W. Magnolia Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505, 818-845-0707, www.autobooks-aerobooks.com.

j) Hidden Garages is coming to Saleen Automotive in Corona, California on April 19, 2025, Saturday from 10am to 3pm. Address is 2735 Wardlow Road, Corona, CA 92882. Phone: 800-888-8945. PS: Steve Saleen’s birthday was April 2. From: Bill Montgomery at Hidden Pioneers hiddenpioneers.

k) Dragstrip Memories Returns to Present Canada’s Drag Racing History. The event to be held April 13, 2025, 9am-4pm, at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, the former Dragway Park, located on Airport Road in Mount Hope, just south of Hamilton, and provides ample parking. Contact Rob Potter at rpotter396 or Tony Hayes at tjhayes57.

l) APRIL 11-13, 2025, NHRA 4-Wide Nationals, Las Vegas, 800-644-4444 or www.nhra.com.

m) APRIL 13, 2025, Cal Poly Royal Truck & Tractor Pull 2025, Cal Poly Tractor Pull Club, 1pm, www.eventbrite.com.

n) APRIL 12, 2025, 5th Annual Visalia Car Show, Pharaohs of Visalia Car Club, Glen 805-286-2448 or www.tinyurl.com/.

o) APRIL 12, 2025, Clovis Water Tower Car Show. Garland 559-259-9573 or www.hotrodsfresno.com.

p) APRIL 13, 2025, Pomona Swap Meet, Los Angeles Fairplex, info: 714-538-9091.

q) MONTHLY: Jr’s Drive-In, 2nd Friday of the month, 603 E. Main, Santa Maria, CA, 5-8pm. For info: 805-925-5556.

r) RPM Workshop at Reno will take place on December 2-4, 2025, at the Silver Legacy. RPM Workshop at Daytona will take place February 8-10, 2026, and will likely take place at Daytona Beach Shores, Florida, provided things do not change. From Racing Promotion Monthly, March 2025 edition, www.Promotersnewsletter.com.

7) BLAST FROM THE PAST…… From the Wally & Barbara Parks story, We Did It Our Way.

The date of June 1950 is a wild stab in the dark for when the Pomona Valley Timing Association Choppers (PVTA) car club set up classes and rules for racing on the Pomona Fairgrounds parking lot. Dates on letters were often missing; car club secretaries never thought that seven decades later historians would be poking around in their old letters. They knew when they wrote and submitted their reports; but it makes the job of historian much harder. The PVTA Choppers Technical Committee turned in a great job and while these classes, rules and regulations are outdated they do show the thinking at the time and how such work resulted in the creation of drag racing as we know it today.

8) BOOK REVIEWS: authors and page numbers.

Hot Rod Pioneers, the Creators of the Fastest Sport on Wheels, by Ed Almquist 4

Smoke, Sand and Rubber, by Mel Anthony 6

Street Rod & Custom Showtime, by Rodger Attaway 7

Roy Richter; Striving for Excellence, by Art Bagnall 10

The American Hot Rod, by Dean Batchelor 12

9) NHRA, DRAGS, IHRA, AND STRAIGHTLINE RACING NEWS:

a) Night qualifying is back for a second straight year at Pacific Raceways, while three sessions of nitro qualifying on Saturday is also set for the upcoming 36th annual Muckleshoot Casino Resort NHRA Northwest Nationals. The weekend in Seattle takes place July 18-20, 2025, as NHRA and Pacific Raceways officials revealed a pair of exciting schedule announcements for the longtime NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series event. From: nhracommunications.

b) One of the most unique spectacles in motorsports will include a historic moment for the NHRA’s Top Fuel category this year at zMAX Dragway. The 15th annual NHRA 4-Wide Nationals takes place April 25-27, 2025, NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series history: the 1,000th Top Fuel race.

c) The NHRA Sportsman Roundup (online). Topics: Attention in the pits; Sportsman News; Divisional Race Returns to In-N-Out Burger Pomona Dragstrip in 2026; Highlights from Laris Motorsports Insurance Cajun SPORTSnationals; Albuquerque Dragway Returns to NHRA in Division 7; Thunder Valley Dragways new member in Division 5; Division 3 Super Quick Shoot Out; Bevers named National Dragster Sportsman Racer of the Month and more.

10) NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD AND MORE:

a) Vintage Metal magazine (robertcampbell4.

b) The latest is at https://indd.adobe.com/view/901ddc04-f150-4b22-b481-81cdd019d049. I hope you enjoy it. Bob

BOB: Thank you for sending it to us. That fantastic, member-built clubhouse is amazing and the old cars just mesmerizing to see over and over again.

11) OLD TIME HOT RODDERS SPEAK:

a) Boyd Harnell developed his photographs from the Pan-Americana Road Race and enlarged them to give to Ak Miller, his old friend. Harnell presented enlargements of Ak racing in the Pan-Americana Road Race and how fascinating that time was. (source Boyd Harnell June 28, 2005)

b) One of the primary things RPM stresses, believes and practices is “Working Together.” We attended the Michigan Speedway’s Promoter’s Association (MSPA) meeting in Lansing, Michigan. The MSPA has been meeting for decades, since 1973. The meeting is broken up into sections, with promoters given the opportunity to speak freely about challenges they’re facing and discuss them amongst themselves to see if they can reach a solution. Racing Promotion Monthly, March 2025 edition, jskotnicki.

12) The HSR Sebring Classic, sports car and open wheel racing news:

a) Fourth winner was the 2017 #02 Matador Motorsports Cadillac DPi co-driven by Pierce Marshall and Eric Foss in Run Group C. The victory avenged a loss to Bob Neapole and Guy Cosmo in the RBN Motorsports with Cosmo-Sport 2020 #60 Acura ARX-05 prepared by Hudson Historics in last December’s HSR Classic Sebring 12. Although the breakout victory by Neapole and Cosmo in December stopped Marshall and Foss from sweeping 2024’s trio of HSR Classic races, the #02 team now has a solid record of three wins in the last four HSR Classic events run dating back to Watkins Glen last year. Adam Saal SaalGoodPR.

b) Yaamava’ Resort & Casino at San Manuel will support the “Victory Lap After Party,” at the April 10, 2025, RRDC Celebration of 50 Years of the Grand Prix of Long Beach, presented by Firestone. The event’s proceeds will benefit The Mark Donohue Foundation of the Road Racing Drivers Club and The Grand Prix Foundation of Long Beach. From: Judy Stropus

c) Wisconsin is a hot bed of short track in the United States, it has everything you can imagine. Slinger Speedway holds a special place in all of it. Wayne Erickson sold the facility to the Thelen family in June 2021. Travis and Kelsey Dassow purchased Slinger this year from the Thelen’s. From Racing Promotion Monthly, March 2025 edition, www.Promotersnewsletter.com.

13) FROM EPARTRADE:

a) Jimmie Johnson, a 7-Time NASCAR Cup Series Champion and Co-owner of Legacy Motor Club,

joined us. Hosted by Jeff Hammond from SiriusXM, Channel 90. From: team.

b) Delta ABS will present this webinar April 9, 2025, 9 am. Presented by Matthew Payne, Sales & Marketing Director, SCS Delta UK, & Chris Law, Marketing Manager, Delta ABS USA. Hosted by Brad Gillie from SiriusXM, Channel 90, The Late Shift.

c) “Epartrade has made the world a little smaller, allowing us to connect with racing companies around the world like they are just down the street. The racing industry now has a place online, global and 24/7.” Yves Morizot, President & CEO, Stand 21.

d) Guenther Steiner, one of Formula 1’s most popular and high-profile Team Principals, joined us. Hosted by Brad Gillie from SiriusXM, Channel 90, The Late Shift.

e) Kyle Larson, the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series Champion, who will begin his fifth season with Hendrick Motorsports and is one of the most respected drivers in NASCAR, joined us. Hosted by Brad Gillie from SiriusXM, Channel 90, The Late Shift.

14) We will remember the Cool Jazz Man, “Cobra Hank” Williams on April 19, 2025, at Steve Saleen’s Hidden Garage in Corona from 10am to 3pm. We hope to see you there and spread the word. Hank Williams passed away Dec 5, 2023, and left his original Ford Shelby behind with hundreds of trophies and memorabilia to display! Watch this short video here: NHRA YES Program on YouTube, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2JU7HOynxY. Hank Williams was a Hidden Pioneer and came out to the NHRA YES (Youth & Education Services) programs for the youth. We lost a good man, and he will be missed. Support the Summit Car Show April 19th in Corona from 10am to 3pm, come and show your support with cool Ford owners.

15) WALLY’S STORIES: courtesy of DRIVE Magazine, by Wally Parks (to be serialized). INDIAN MOTORCYCLE DAY-WEST

Seeing all those ancient and restored two-wheelers took me back to a time in my youth, when I too was hooked on a motorcycle. It was an Indian – vintage early 1920s – parked under a tree in an elderly man’s backyard that I walked past daily on my way to our high school bus from Southgate to Watts. It was weathered, from long exposure to the elements, and I could see that the tires were flat. But that didn’t dampen my teen-age curiosity in the least. So one day I walked up to the door and knocked. And when the gentleman answered I asked if the motorcycle might be for sale. He replied that he would think about it and that I could drop back in a few days. I think I lost a couple of nights’ sleep, imagining what I might do if he said yes. Being in school, I had no money. But that reality didn’t interfere with my eagerness to somehow be the owner of that motorcycle!

16) Automotive books mentioned on Ginger Baker Rust’s Cars Yeah website by those appearing on her Podcast.

Gordon Maltby – Porsche 356, 75th Anniversary, by Gordon Maltby; Growing Up Wright, by Lonnie Lovness, Gordon’s wife.

Brad Rosen – American Icon: The Fight to Save Ford, by Bryce G. Hoffman.

Bruce Junor – The Race Before the Race, by Bruce Junor. Available via his email: bjunor.

Bob Kerner – Leaders Eat Last, by Simon Sinek, and Duesenberg, by Dennis Adler.

Nigel Mathews – Life at the Limit,by Graham Hill, and All but my Life, by Stirling Moss.

Kelly Crandall – NASCAR 75 Years, by Kelly Crandall, Al Pearce, Mike Hembree, and Jimmy Creed.

Jeremy Berger – Salt World History, by Mark Kurlanski.

Chris Jacobs – Go Like Hell, by A.J. Baime.

Daniel Curtis – The Ford Mustang 1964-1974, by Jerry Heasley.

This Week on Cars Yeah podcast Ginger Baker Rust interviews Christopher Peterson, who owns Fully Sorted providing collector car services. He serves as a consultant for Sotheby’s Motorsport and chairs the Motor Car Classic at the La Jolla Concours d’Elegance that takes place April 27, 2025, in beautiful La Jolla, California. Also on Ginger’s program are Matt Dibenedetto and Ida Zetterstrom. From: Ginger.

17) BLAST FROM THE PAST…… From the Wally & Barbara Parks story, We Did It Our Way.

The emphasis on safety, the urging to get registrations into the SCTA for the 1950 Bonneville Time Trials set for August 21-27, and the professional look of the program are attributed to the Road Ramblers of San Diego and Gus Maanum, but I believe my father may have assisted in the editing process. The SCTA reserved El Mirage for time trials on May 6-7, June 10-11, July 8-9, September 23-24, October 21-22 and the last meet of the year on November 18-19, 1950. The editor published the CHP’s (Safety Education Section) article entitled “Hot Rods not Shot Rods.”