The Roaring Season

Hi Auto Doug, i'll call you at some stage when i can get the time zone rite. You have seen some of my pictures added on this posting, i spent a bit of time with Steel towards the end when i was flying up from NZ couple of times a year, really enjoyed chatting and spending with him, went to his ...

[ATTACH=CONFIG]63983[/ATTACH] playing with a vintage pinball game (I found at a thrift store as a gift for Speedy Bill), with two racing legends ! how fun!!

[ATTACH]63982[/ATTACH] ok ill try this I found one that appears small enough to post, here is Steele T with Paul Brown and me. and my new rotisserie the Roller Hoop.

Hi I've read some of these post about Steele Therkelson he was a friend of mine in his later days, i got to work with him a bit, have lunch, dinner and other normal days to day things he would always have such great stories to tell about his days in the racing world with all the people he worked ...

After more thinking am pretty sure he sold hie books to pay for his trip to NZ he had hopes of living back in Hasting but felt he knew very few so went back to the States and not a lot was heard of him except Toms daughter told me Tom was taking care of him,Steele converted a Ferrari then a Mustang ...

[color="#0000CD"]Have to agree with the comments about Peter Brock & his wife, I was struggling with a couple of areas in the Daytona Coupe buck I have built, I hate annoying other folk, but decided to send him an email @ BRE, got a reply straight away from his wife explaining he was away for a ...

I agree Grant. By the way, great story Doug, thanks for posting. Incidentally I was lucky enough to have purchased a first edition copy of Pete's brilliant Daytona Cobra Coupes book when living in London the the early/mid 90s. I recently went to do some research on this book and was staggered to ...

Hi…One of the things I like to do every few years is to take a few days and drive across our great country….it always gives me a sense of pride to see what America is really like when one takes the time to stop along the road and meet people who make living here such a wonderful experience. This yea ...

I have more pictures of this event but they are to large to download here email me and I can send mailto:?subject=&body=

Doug

Wow Doug, thats a heck of a cool intro! Welcome to The Roaring Season. Great to have you on board. I don't know Speedy Bill personally, but I certainly know Speedway Motors very well. Out of interest, what sort of car is that on your rotisserie in the first photo? Thanks Steve I've been lucky to ...

While being involved in the body restoration business for 3 decades your bound to run into some interesting characters from time to time. My best friend racer / car builder the late Paul Brown had me involved with building, painting and repairing his World Challenge race cars for twenty some years ...