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Kuan · #1 01-12-2012, 08:25 AM

Patrese & Wife - subtitled - YouTube

engatwork · #2 01-12-2012, 08:33 AM

She looks nice from the front with the a/c turned down

but I'm not sure I could handle all that talking.

Kuan · #3 01-12-2012, 08:34 AM

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Originally Posted by engatwork

She looks nice from the front with the a/c turned down

but I'm not sure I could handle all that talking.

You'll find a way.

engatwork · #4 01-12-2012, 08:37 AM

LOL

Air&Road · #5 01-12-2012, 08:55 AM

Thanks VERY much for the link Kuan! I REALLY enjoyed it.

It made me remember about when I was dating my wife. I had a 23T with 6-71 Blower on a small block Chevy. 1800 pounds. The power to weight was great.

She and I went to a rod run and they had a gymkhana course. She rode in this open roadster with me while I was power sliding, sprint car style through a five pointed star and some other turns. There was a marked off garage that you had to go into forward and come out of forward. I slid sideways in and broke the tires loose to turn and come out forward. It was a WILD ride. She sat there with her seat belt fastened and holding on with both hands. Never screamed, never did anything but sit there and grin.

Oh BTW, my wife was 20 at the time and looked WAY better than this guys wife. I guess I'm luckier than he is.

t walgamuth · #6 01-12-2012, 09:04 AM

Patrese's Mrs. is good looking. I liked his facial expression best.

Larry, got any pictures to post of your T bucket?

You are a wild man to take a T to the autocross.

MTI · #7 01-12-2012, 09:41 AM

Based on the links, I see that in car video of frightened passengers is a popular genre

Air&Road · #8 01-12-2012, 10:04 AM

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Originally Posted by t walgamuth

Patrese's Mrs. is good looking. I liked his facial expression best.

Larry, got any pictures to post of your T bucket?

You are a wild man to take a T to the autocross.

Somewhere I have an 8 X 10, the rest of the pictures I have are small snapshots. I'll see if I can dig it up. Maybe I can get someone to scan them for me.

Not long before that rod run, my wife (then GF) and I were cruising by the shopping mall one Saturday Morning and they were having a parking lot Grand Prix. I pulled in and asked if they had a class for my T Bucket. They scratched their heads and went off to discuss it. They came back saying the only thing they could do would be to put me in some open class or another, but I wouldn't be competitive.

I told them, that's okay, I just want to be able to run the course. I paid the few bucks and signed up. After a little bit, they came to me with a proposal. They said there was a guy with a Corvair powered dune buggy and they wanted to make a match race between the two of us and play it up big, because it was all to raise money for charity anyway.

They went through a round as I recall and then let us both have several practice exhibition runs. The course went through a bunch of wiggly's all along the West side of the parking lot and then a little short run back East and then a long straight pretty much due North along the East side of the parking lot and then a few Wiggly's back to the corner where it started and required a full stop.

The car had a Crosley steering box with about fifty turns lock to lock and the steering column was near vertical between my legs with a Model T wood rimmed steering wheel. It was like driving a bus. I guess it was quite entertaining for everyone to watch me turning that steering wheel like crazy. When I went into that long straight the power to weight really came in and I have no idea what speed I reached, but I was FLYING with great big eyeballs looking at the cones at the end of the straight.

At the end of the day, they turned the dune buggy and myself loose for quite a few practice runs and they played it up big on the PA System. That night a friend of mine called me to tell me about seeing me on the local TV news flying down that back straight.

Then on Sunday, we both ran three rounds a piece. He had a great seating position and everything in the dune buggy and could just turn the wheel over for lock to lock steering. He had better suspension, lower CG vs. my straight axles. I don't remember the times we turned in, but he was beating me by a good bit in the practice rounds. He started drinking and when we ran our timed runs he was beating me by several seconds. I was working like crazy to keep from hitting cones while making 50 turns lock to lock in my bus driving. His problem was he was knocking over cones.

After the last run of the day it was almost dark and I took my GF home while assuming that the dune buggy had won. The next night somebody called me and said they sure wish I could have been at their dinner to get my plaque. I said something like "what plaque?" They said, the plaque for winning the match race. Turned out he mowed down just enough cones for me to beat him.

That was the only time I can ever remember being the Tortoise outrunning the Hare.

Somewhere I have the plaque. It is one of the most satisfying things I ever won. It was a great time.

BTW, this was ca. 1973.

BTW Tom, the Rod Run gymkhana was only for street rods, so most of the cars were like 34 sedans and stuff. The one I described above was indeed an SCCA Autocross event.

Honus · #9 01-12-2012, 10:08 AM

With all due respect to Mrs. Patrese, those F1 drivers have nothing on Derek Jeter: The Many Girlfriends of Derek Jeter | NBC New York

Based on the number of World Series rings he has, what he does for a living, and the list of girls he has done, I say that Derek Jeter is the greatest man who ever lived.

Air&Road · #10 01-12-2012, 10:13 AM

Yes Honus, if that's your scale for determining the greatest man that ever lived, he is very likely the winner.

Kuan · #11 01-12-2012, 10:20 AM

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Originally Posted by LarryBible

Oh BTW, my wife was 20 at the time and looked WAY better than this guys wife.

Hey now, you can't just make a claim like that and not post pics, not that we don't believe you, but...

I remember the first time I handbrake parked the car in the driveway on a snowy day. Oh boy.

Air&Road · #12 01-12-2012, 10:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Kuan

Hey now, you can't just make a claim like that and not post pics, not that we don't believe you, but...

I remember the first time I handbrake parked the car in the driveway on a snowy day. Oh boy.

She's not the kind of lady that ever let me get any glamour shots or anything. I used to have a really good picture from right after we were married and I have not been able to find it.

Yes, the best way to learn to throw a car sideways is to start on the ice or snow, preferably on a BIG parking lot. Before the experiences above, I had lived in Germany for two years and learned to throw a car around. Waiting on ice or snow for such training in this part of Texas would not provide many learning opportunities.

The T Bucket was easy to throw around because it was so overpowered. It was pretty easy to steer with the throttle in spite of the huge rear tires, at least for the time.

Honus · #13 01-12-2012, 01:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LarryBible

Yes Honus, if that's your scale for determining the greatest man that ever lived, he is very likely the winner.

I assumed that my previous comment did not require a "

". Perhaps that was a bad assumption.

cmac2012 · #14 01-12-2012, 05:21 PM

She was remarkably agreeable about the hidden camera thingy. It looks like she has a deep well of affection for the guy. And definitely a hottie for her age.

I saw this a year or two ago but it was nice to see it again. I want to woo the lady away from the Italiano.

t walgamuth · #15 01-13-2012, 05:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LarryBible

Somewhere I have an 8 X 10, the rest of the pictures I have are small snapshots. I'll see if I can dig it up. Maybe I can get someone to scan them for me.

Not long before that rod run, my wife (then GF) and I were cruising by the shopping mall one Saturday Morning and they were having a parking lot Grand Prix. I pulled in and asked if they had a class for my T Bucket. They scratched their heads and went off to discuss it. They came back saying the only thing they could do would be to put me in some open class or another, but I wouldn't be competitive.

I told them, that's okay, I just want to be able to run the course. I paid the few bucks and signed up. After a little bit, they came to me with a proposal. They said there was a guy with a Corvair powered dune buggy and they wanted to make a match race between the two of us and play it up big, because it was all to raise money for charity anyway.

They went through a round as I recall and then let us both have several practice exhibition runs. The course went through a bunch of wiggly's all along the West side of the parking lot and then a little short run back East and then a long straight pretty much due North along the East side of the parking lot and then a few Wiggly's back to the corner where it started and required a full stop.

The car had a Crosley steering box with about fifty turns lock to lock and the steering column was near vertical between my legs with a Model T wood rimmed steering wheel. It was like driving a bus. I guess it was quite entertaining for everyone to watch me turning that steering wheel like crazy. When I went into that long straight the power to weight really came in and I have no idea what speed I reached, but I was FLYING with great big eyeballs looking at the cones at the end of the straight.

At the end of the day, they turned the dune buggy and myself loose for quite a few practice runs and they played it up big on the PA System. That night a friend of mine called me to tell me about seeing me on the local TV news flying down that back straight.

Then on Sunday, we both ran three rounds a piece. He had a great seating position and everything in the dune buggy and could just turn the wheel over for lock to lock steering. He had better suspension, lower CG vs. my straight axles. I don't remember the times we turned in, but he was beating me by a good bit in the practice rounds. He started drinking and when we ran our timed runs he was beating me by several seconds. I was working like crazy to keep from hitting cones while making 50 turns lock to lock in my bus driving. His problem was he was knocking over cones.

After the last run of the day it was almost dark and I took my GF home while assuming that the dune buggy had won. The next night somebody called me and said they sure wish I could have been at their dinner to get my plaque. I said something like "what plaque?" They said, the plaque for winning the match race. Turned out he mowed down just enough cones for me to beat him.

That was the only time I can ever remember being the Tortoise outrunning the Hare.

Somewhere I have the plaque. It is one of the most satisfying things I ever won. It was a great time.

BTW, this was ca. 1973.

BTW Tom, the Rod Run gymkhana was only for street rods, so most of the cars were like 34 sedans and stuff. The one I described above was indeed an SCCA Autocross event.

This was a great entertaining read. Thanks Larry. A picture of the T if you can find it would be very cool!