Thanks to the bunch of youse guys that have donated for SpeedWeek. I'll do my best to make the event better for everyone. After all, if I didn't make it out there - - everyone (EVERYONE) on the salt would be very unhappy. I couldn't do that the this bunch.
(For those who wonder WTF I'm talking about, please be advised that for 15 years or so I've been the Potentate of Porta Potties, herding 6 dozen or so of 'em at SpeedWeek. Please consider a moment of silence in respect for me as you proceed to void. Gentlemen, please stand attention but don't salute. Your hands have something else to do).)
You're welcome.
Grab bags and other offerings: I've found some cool stuff and some "Dang, I'd forgot about this" stuff. For Instance, I found 42 square shot glasses laser engraved with the landracing.com logo on one side and "Save the Salt" on another. Let me know if you'd like any - - otherwise I'll divvy 'em up in the bags, like 4/bag.
I've got a near-complete set of rulebooks from '01 through the present. Are you a collector? Here's a set for you, and some of them are even labelled Seldom Seen Slim. How's that for a stupendous bit of history to put in YOUR library? Let me know, and by then I might have found the few I don't see right now. Ditto official programs - I've got most of 'em from the same era, and I've found some old USFRA programs, too. I'm an accumulator rather than a collector. That means I bring home collectibles and promptly ignore them, not polish and collate and curate and halogen spotlight 'em. It also means that this stuff is by and large in at least very good condition.
I just found an unopened box with John Baechtel's Goldenrod book. Dang, I didn't have the foresight to ask him to sign it when I bought it - and now he's dead. May he Rest in Peace. The book is uncirculated and perfect. It'll either be in one of the bags or one of you will contact me and tell me how much you want the book so I save it for you. I've got a copy, still sealed in the wrapper, of "A Century of Speed". Some Turbinator posters and some 6x9 black and white OLD prints of the Summers Brothers and the Goldenrod (same image on each).
And that ain't all, folks, but it gives you an idea of what is moving away from my house this week. I'll assemble the bags before -- so don't you dawdle, or be ready to reward me handsomely for going through bags until I find your precious gee-gaw.
I found one book that will be staying with me. That book is shown here, and in the next post is a pic of me taken in front of Mr. Ferge's portrait in the store at Ballarat. Yeah, I know - I was lookin' kinda crispy that day. It's something that happens when you're riding a motorcycle around in Death Valley.
Anyway - thank you very much. I really am humbled by the $$ you've sent.
