Ferrari Mailing List: Ferrari List of olde

[Rick Lindsay (rolindsay]

Hello Friends,
     I was just wondering how many of the OLD Ferrari List people are still 
here, or perhaps have rejoined.  I signed up in 1996 and we were a tiny list 
then.  My first e-friend there was Peter Henrys in Melbourne Australia.  Peter 
introduced me to Formula 1.  We keep in touch to this day, if far too 
infrequently.  We also visit, at least for a dinner out, every time I go to 
Melbourne to work the Grand Prix.  Steve Cook is of course member #1 being the 
List owner.  I didn't meet Steve face-to-face until the summer of 2004.  Great 
guy with a great family.  
     I think the next List member I met face-to-face was Ric Rainbolt.  Ric and 
Wendy are also still close friends.  We've also owned the same car a few times. 
:-P
     We had a track event (driver's school) at Hallett, Oklahoma about 7 or 8 
years ago.  Lots of new faces to meet then.  Matt Boyd, whom I bought Dave's 
Mondial from, came westward to Hallet as did many others.  Off the top of my 
head I remember Ian and Claudia, Robert Rehkopf, Charles Perry and Ric 
Rainbolt.  Who was that guy from the Los Alamos Lab?  Can't remember his name.  
Did Patrick Norris attend that first event?  Who have I forgotten?
     Somewhere around the turn of the century a lot of us met in Modena then 
went on to tour the factory.  That's where we first met many more friends 
face-to-face - especially the European friends.  Included were Rui Gigante, 
Antony Shine, Francis Newman and numerous others.  I believe we numbered 24 
when we passed through the hallowed gates onto the factory floor.  From there 
we traveled with Charles and Buck Perry. We met up with Rui and Ana up in the 
lakes area north of Milan the next day. Most of our time was spent ogling over 
the F40 in the parking lot.  Two weeks later and dead broke, we returned to the 
States.
     We did another track event a year or two later.  Patrick Norris organized 
that event. Rui and Ana Gigante were over visiting us from Portugal.  I can't 
remember who attended that event.  Did we do three of these?  I remember having 
a rallye on the Sunday after one event.
    We met Robert Rehkopf for a rally in Arkansas a year or two after that.  My 
son Allen navigated for him, as I recall.  Allen is now a nuclear physicist in 
New Mexico, busy attending the college where Steve Cook graduated.
    Why have I written all this crap?  Well, Nancy and I are traveling to 
Portugal this weekend to spend another week with Rui and Ana.  Our goal is to 
spoil their two-year-old daughter rotten, then come home.  :-)  The whole thing 
has me in old-man mode reminiscing over days passed.
   
  With best regards,
   
  rick