Milwaukee Midget

[manta22]

G Don;

Thanks for the corrected detail on the Hall/Motchenbacher crash. I think it was this crash that retired Jim from driving.

That must have been spectacular!

Regards, Neil  Tucson, AZ

[Rex Schimmer]

Just a quick comment on G Don, Don Nowell. I have talked to him a number of times and today I stopped by his house/shop. Don builds models and I mean really neat models, his Harleys are absolutely unbelievable!!! The tires have the all of the manufactures information on them and the tread lines are perfect and he hand makes the spoked wheels which are, again unbelievable!! What a talented guy. He worked a Bartz engines and also Traco and knows all of the people that were doing CanAm and IMSA GTP stuff. Really great to put a face on Don and especially seeing some of his fantastic work.

Rex

[DND]

Hi Rex

Thanks very much for the praise on my stuff, one thing is I did work for Bartz but not Traco just dynoed my engines there for 10 yrs and that is how I met the  guys - Stu - Eddie and John plus Frank & Jim who kept them in line and what a great bunch of guys and the perfect Dyno shop!!

Talk about a track record and ' Been there Done that '

G Don

[Milwaukee Midget]

Wow - all I can say is wow . . .

It's been dawning on me - I'm feeling a bit like a ham fisted archeologist who has been unwittingly scratching notes on a palimpsest parchment and who is slowly putting the whole picture together.

I knew there was talent on the boards, but for a kid, growing up in Iowa, whose major intake of road racing was a once-a-year trip to either Road America, or Mid America, or Brainerd Intl., that I have jumped into something where I'm actually in communication with the people who worked in the trenches, built and raced the cars I adored as a kid, and whose work fascinated me so much . . .

All I can say is that I am in awe. 

Neil, Don, Rex, Mark, PJ, et al - I'm grateful for your company on this twisted little journey. 

[Dean Los Angeles]

The Vegas crash was the end of Jim Hall's Can-Am racing. He did race in Trans-Am after that.
This was at Stardust International Raceway. I raced karts there, when it was out of town. Now it's Spring Valley and in the middle of town.

[manta22]

Dean;

THANKS for that photo. You have no idea how hard it is to find!

Regards, Neil  Tucson, AZ

[fordboy628]

Midget,

Wow!!    3500 postings . . . . . . . .

Isn't there something better to do with our free time?

Like consume suds? . . . . . . . . . .

Why, I think I'll have one right now.
 
Fordboy

[4-barrel Mike]

Hmmm, good idea.  Obsidian Stout.

    

Mike

[Milwaukee Midget]

It's a rye night, tonight.

Hard to believe, but it's TOO COLD in MILWAUKEE to DRINK BEER!

Templeton - neat - no chaser.

Picked up a bottle of this - #253 of 544 produced - saving it for Speedweek -

http://www.greatlakesdistillery.com/spirits/menomonee-valley-rye/?age-verified=ad8cf7ea36

My advice?   . . . know your brewer by their first name!!!   

AND your distiller . . . the guy's name is Guy . . . so that's easy . . . even after you've had a few of his cocktails.

[fordboy628]

It's a rye night, tonight.

Hard to believe, but it's TOO COLD in MILWAUKEE to DRINK BEER!

Templeton - neat - no chaser.

My advice?   . . . know your brewer by their first name!!!   

AND your distiller . . . the guy's name is Guy . . . so that's easy . . . even after you've had a few of his cocktails.

I thought that's what Schnaps (auf Deutsch, bitte) was for . . . . .        (-10 here now, -35 windchill for all you wishfull sunshine staters & Aussies . . . . . . .)

You live in the most German city in the U.S. fer Christsake!!!!   (Well, except for Cape Canaveral in the 60's . . . . .)

Mmmmm, a nice Bavarian apple or pear Schnaps,  I'd have one right now, BUT I CAN'T!!!   Because my Schnaps sucking brother-in-law, Herr Horlebein, snarfed my whole stash on his last visit.    He even lives in Bavaria.    Think he could have brought me a bottle or three!!    Noooo.

I guess this means your gonna hafta share your rye.    I'll be up as soon as I finish flow testing J.R.'s heads.    Expect no mercy, but be glad I'm not Herr Horlebein . . . . . . .
 
Fordboy

Prost!  That's only one in "dog Schnaps" . . . . . . . .

[DND]

I always liked the ' Peppermint ' flavor

[Queeziryder]

FB
If you ask nicely  I will get you some Hazelnut and some Honey Schnapps when I go to Austria this Sept. Shipping can be by plain brown box if required 

[WOODY@DDLLC]

Chris, did you know the midget made the GNRS Bonneville book page 284. You are in great company! 

[fordboy628]

Chris, did you know the midget made the GNRS Bonneville book page 284. You are in great company! 

Woody,

Is that the "Century of Speed" book?
 
F/B

[Tman]

The cape Canaveral comment was priceless!