Thanks for looking Paul. For me it was like a trip back in time.
Kenneth Waller
http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f
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From: "paul stenquist" <pnstenqu...@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: PESO - What I did over the weekend
Nice shot of a beautiful car. Sounds like you had a great weekend.
Paul
On Jul 27, 2009, at 2:57 PM, Ken Waller wrote:
I Attended the Kohler International Challenge (vintage races) the
weekend of 7/17-19 @ Road America in
Elkhart Lake Wisconsin.
The featured Marquee was the Ford GT 40. These were popular road
race cars
in the mid 60's when I started my career @ Ford Motor in Dearborn,
Michigan, and while I
never got to work directly on these (not that I didn't try), I
became good
friends with several of the engineers that did. Together, we raced
other
Ford vehicles over the years as independents.
I hooked up with several of these ex GT engineers for this trip to
Elkhart Lake. It was an enjoyable time spent viewing the GT 40s &
Ford Mark IVs that were on site (less than 50 in total, authentic
GT40s &
Mark IV GTs) with around a thousand other vehicles entered for this
racing weekend and have my friends recall their adventures with these
vehicles.
One of my pals recalled his transporting of replacement windshields
from the Paris airport to the LeMans race course, after it was
discovered
there was a 'flaw' in the original windshields at 215 mph down the
Mulsanne
straight!
The MkIV GT shown here
http://mypeoplepc.com/members/kwaller/offwallphoto/id2.html is not an
original, but a well done replica by a group of private individuals.
Hope the car nuts on the pdml enjoy this !
Kenneth Waller
http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f
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