Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Ferrari List of olde

[Erik Nielsen (judge4re]

I'm still around.  In fact, I'm sitting in my home office looking at a bent
valve that came out of your engine!!!

Married, more responsibilities and more Ferraris, but the same old fat and
dumb guy.

Cheers,
Erik


On 8/29/06, Rick Lindsay <rolindsay [at] yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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
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