Oh, that's sweet like candy!
I have warm, fuzzy memories of my first Lola GT...................1/32 scale and still a wonder!
I often go into my basement workshop, spray some old AMT lacquer paint and and rub some "3 in 1" oil about and I am once again 12 years old in a world of motorsport wonders! Will Jimmy Clark repeat this year as world champ? Will Ford EVER win LeMans? Where are all these cool Aston Martin GT cars and who has all those neat Lotus 30/40's and Maserati Birdcages? What will "Chunky" Chapman think up next? Why do so many neat cars come out of this "Cooper Garage" place and why won't Carroll Shelby return my calls? I AM gonna by a Cobra as soon as I save up enough allowance!
They say smell is the strongest memory and I agree........The Honda F1 V12 at Watkins Glen in 1967 had an acrid, raw odor....of course the mechanics revving it to 12,000 RPM while I was pinned behind the pipe by the crowd (now I KNOW why I hear like crap) has NOTHING to do with it.
And being PERSONALLY yelled at by Colin A.C.B. Chapman on the grid at Watkins is just a "faint memory" (I WAS sitting on the front tire of Fittipaldi's Lotus at the time, two minutes before the G.P. start.....Chunky's question to me was along the lines of "What the BLOODY HELL do you think you are doing?!?!?!" I snapped a picture at that moment! Said photo was entered by a Lotus friend of mine at the Lotus Owners Group photo contest a few years back an apparently won some award (I don't know, I never got any money.....)
Ah, well, time to come back to reality..........
Rick