It's been a h*lluva couple of bittersweet weeks since the first of the year. Navy Davy left us unexpectedly. Whether it was shooting the shit in the Cedar Lake infield or filling in for my missing shipmate at Kopellah, I realize now that I took him for granted and should have spent more time hanging out with him. There comes a time in one's life, this is now for me, that one realizes they have done some things right, made some mistakes and continue to learn something new each and every day. Sometimes the problem is actually putting those lessons in action after the emotions and the pain of loss get back in check. As a tribute to Navy Davy I have gone through this entire blog and saved all of the "Navy Davy's Shot of the Week" that he shared with me. I will be creating a section on the gotomn.com website and posting all of his photos as well as a few others. The Navy Davy tribute section will be be left on the gotomn.com website as long as I am able to host and maintain the site. Hopefully one of the younger photogs will feel the need to preserve some of the work that I'm doing on my site when I'm done.
I talked to my friend Bill Taylor a couple of weeks ago. Bill took ill at Bonneville last summer where he was doing his usual duty as a starter on one of the courses and had to return home early. He told me that he's feeling better after a few visits to the doctor but he's got to slow down his pace a little. Bill sent me some information about the ARDUN flat head to Hemi engine conversion. Taylor was the first man to put a machine powered by an Ardun in the 200mph club in 1969 driving one of the model T bodied roaders. It's a very interesting read and I learned some interesting things about Bill's past that he has talked about before but I never made the full connection until I saw it in print.
I am listening to the Chili Bowl as I type this blog post. It's pretty cool to hear a race broadcast in the dead of winter. Tomorrow night is the CLS banquet so that should be fun to see the awards presentation and chat about racing.
In case you haven't heard, the 10th Annual GRP Racing Trivia Contest has begun and will be running for a week so be sure to enter.
Well, we're working our way through the alphabet at the Chili Bowl and the broadcast is getting more interesting. Later!
