The South Plains Sports Car Club was our primary social orgazination. It met once a month. Different members would plan an after club event for each month.
There were lots of interesting after club events. One was a “lime bag run.” The cars left at two minute intervals, after giving the starter your odometer reading. When there was to be a turn, the people setting up the event would put powdered lime in the intersection. That alerted us that the route might go left, right, or straight. A half block in the correct direction there would be more lime. And so on and so forth.
Most of the drivers would drive one way, if they didn’t find lime they would turn around and check out another direction. Well, since it was a “distance traveled” event, Bill and I figured out another way to do it. We would stop, get out of the car, he would run to the left and I would run to the right. If neither of us found the lime, we knew we had to go straight.
I don’t think anyone else ever figured our why we won those kinds of events.
Another low mileage event was a scavenger hunt. Well, we didn’t all go the same route. One guy, whom we called Superman because his name was Kent Clark (Do you get it?) decided he would back everywhere. At that time, a car’s odometer would take off mileage when the car was driven in reverse.
Kent had a small Thunderbird...a very jazzy little car. He always called it “The Bird!” After awhile, we nicknamed it “The Gooney Bird.” I think it was a good fit of driver, car, and nickname!
Another after club event would take place out on country roads. A person would drive away and set off a flare. Every fifteen minutes, he would set off another one several miles away. This went on for quite awhile. The winner was the first one to find him. It doesn’t sound like it makes much sense now, and I’m not sure it made any sense then, either.
These events are examples of one level of our “insanity.”
No comments:
Post a Comment