Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Pre-adolescence arrests (that you are proud of) (NO F CONTENT)

[Dave Craig (dave.craig]

This would have been around 1974 for me.  I grew up in a small town in
southern Indiana (Hanover) and all we had (for Karts/carts) was some parking
lot races once or twice a year in a neighboring town of Madison.  My parents
weren't real big into the "spend all day at the local shopping center so I
could rip around a parking lot" scene.  My go-cart was very tired when I got
it, so I bet my dad didn't spend much over a couple hundred to get it.  It
was obviously geared for a larger track; I swear the clutch slipped until
you hit 20mph or so.  And you really needed a push to get it going from a
dead stop.  But, boy did I ever have fun in that thing.  Unfortunately, I
have no idea what type of Kart / cart it was.  I eventually blew the motor
(a 12 year old's logic isn't so sound when it comes to mixing fuel).  I
think that might have been my first experience with the equation faster =
shorter life.  So, then I traded it to a neighbor's kid who had really
wanted it for some time.  He had a Honda 50 with the 3 speed clutch-less
transmission.  Basically the Honda needed a new carb and the cart needed a
new engine.  So, I got dad to take me to the neighboring town to the Honda
shop, I bought a new carb, I install it, and had it running that weekend.
The cart took a few months to resurrect.  This other kid got his dad to
retrofit a larger 4 stroke engine on the cart and larger wheels and tires so
he could drive it around in the fields.  In the end, we were both pleased
with our trade. 

 

Wow, those are some old memories.       

 

Dave 

 

 

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Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Pre-adolescence arrests (that you are proud of) (NO F
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Hey Dave: Go Karts? There were several tracks in the L.A. area in the early
1960's. I had a sprint kart with a dual carb MAC 10 2-cycle engine that was
clocked @ 77mph at the end of the straight at Adams Kartway in Riverside.
Where else could you have as much fun on Sunday for a $5 entry fee and $5
for a few gallons of racing fuel. At the end of the Adams 1/8 mile straight
there was even a 'Monza' type banked corner. I paid $400 for the kart, disc
brakes and all.

 

Yer pal, Ferrari Bubba

 

 
-----Original Message-----
From: dave.craig [at] sbcglobal.net
To: red5hilser [at] aol.com
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Sent: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 11:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Pre-adolescence arrests (that you are proud of) (NO F
CONTENT)

Oh, I want to play.

 

Twice.  Once when I was 10 and again for the same thing when I was 11.  My

parents gave me a go-cart that would hit 70mph for my 10th birthday.  This

thing only sit about 1" off of the pavement, had racing slicks, rear disk

brake, full front aluminum cowling, and a two stroke engine.  So, where

could I drive it?  Well parking lots and the very rare race (we lived in a

small town).  So, I decided that our subdivision was basically an oval and

it was laid out quite nicely with 4 straights and 4 corners.  Since I was

living in Indiana, it was natural to put 2 and 2 together and consider it my

own brickyard.  I would make hot laps very regularly, but on two occasions,

someone called the police.  After the 2nd incident (as my mother called

them), my parents took the go-cart up to my grandparents farm.  Grandpa was

the deputy sheriff and they lived way out in the sticks.  So, when I was at

their house, I could drive it up and down their road all day long.  One of

their neighbors built and drove Friday night dirt track stock cars.  On that

narrow country road with all of the twists and bends, a mildly hot go-cart

and an average stock car were fairly evenly matched.  At least it appeared

that way to a 12 year old.  

 

Thinking back on those days, it becomes very obvious why I got so many

tickets as a young driver.  

 

Dave Craig

 

Next?

 

 

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From: LarryT [mailto:l02turner [at] comcast.net <javascript:parent.ComposeTo(> 
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Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 8:22 PM

To: Dave Craig

Cc: ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com <javascript:parent.ComposeTo(> 

Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Quality of drivers (NO F CONTENT)

 

Ken wrote:<<I was busted, age 5, for playing "doctor" with the little girl

>> 

 

While most on this list would find that bust reason for rejoicing a little

boy doing something normal - the media would turn you into a pedophile.

Just like we have a 6 year old boy being charged with sexual assault for

kissing a 6 year old female classmate.  The height of absurdity.  Or the

little boy (aged 9) charged with violating the schools "no guns" policy

because he pointed his finger at another child and said Bang! Bang!  Or the

girl suspended for bringing a dull butter knife to cut her apple because her

new braces made it difficult to eat the apple whole - her mom put the knife

in her lunch bag.

 

I have no idea what they are trying to accomplish with that kind of nonsense

- evidently the local school teachers/principles are too stupid to handle

those kinds of things with out a "Policy"..  IMHO, the people who come up

with the kinds of zero tolerance policy's that do the above should be placed

in a rubber room where they can't harm others!  But I fear they are holding

a well paying administrative positions in some school system taking down

$100K + to destroy childrens lives.

 

Sorry about the ramble - 

 

Larry T (67 MGB, 74 911, 78 240D, 91 300D)

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  From: Ken Rentiers 

  To: LarryT 

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  Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 11:27 AM

  Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Quality of drivers (NO F CONTENT)

 

 

 

 

  On Mar 5, 2007, at 10:03 AM, LarryT wrote:

 

 

    Like most people I have a life

 

 

 

  As do/did I which is why I could not run for dog catcher. The only people

who can withstand the heat these days have lead pristine existences so

boring that, when elected, they are by nature completely ineffectual. I

wonder how Thos Jefferson or someone like Jackson would have withstood

modern pre-election scrutiny, which begins with your pre-K records? 

 

 

  It would take the MSM about 3 days to find out I was busted, age 5, for

playing "doctor" with the little girl across the alley. 

 

 

  ken

 

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