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FWAHC Newsletter
November/December 2001
PAGE 5

Title

Age Testing

Count all the ones that you remember. Ratings at the bottom.

  1. Blackjack chewing gum
  2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
  3. Candy cigarettes
  4. Soda pop machines that dispense a bottle
  5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
  6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
  7. Party lines
  8. Newsreels before the movie
  9. P.F. Flyers
  10. Butch wax
  11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive -6933)
  12. Peashooters
  13. Howdy Doody
  14. 45 RPM records
  15. S&H Green Stamps
  16. Hi-fi's
  17. Metal ice trays with lever
  18. Mimeograph paper
  19. Blue flashbulbs
  20. Beanie and Cecil
  21. Roller skate keys
  22. Cork popguns
  23. Drive-ins
  24. Studebakers
  25. Wash tub wringers

If you remembered 0-5 - You are still young
If you remembered 6-10 - You are getting older
If you remembered 11-15 - Don't tell your age
If you remembered 16-25 - You are older than dirt!

Autocross Virgin

By Joe Guinan
spitfirejoe@email.com

It was the first Autocross, it was the last Autocross.

On Sunday, October 17, I participated in my first Sports Car Club of America SOLO II Autocross event. I didn't know until I got to the course that this was also to be the last event held at Omaha's

AK-SAR-BEN Event Center. Seems the big expanse of paved parking lot can be put to better use. The Nebraska Region SCCA is now in looking for a new location for these events. If anyone knows of a large parking lot that isn't being used on Sundays, please let us know. Another item of news we heard is that a new 2 1/2 mile road course race track is nearing completion across the river somewhere near Glenwood, Iowa. It seems that several days will be reserved for the use of the Nebraska Region SCCA. The members are excited about that.

SOLO II is a driving event in which one car at a time is sent off to traverse a race course that is marked out on a large parking lot by what seems to be a thousand traffic cones. Two seconds are added to the finish time for every cone that is struck. Each car is timed from start to finish, and is allowed several different "runs" over the day. We had a light turnout for this event, so each driver was allowed four different shots at the course. All cars are placed in different classes based on a well defined set of rules, therefore each vehicle is competing with vehicles of a similar weight and horsepower rating.

This event ended up being a special one, as we actually had four British cars in the field. All four were owned and driven by Flatwater members. Gerry Conant of Council Bluffs, Iowa entered his 1980 TR7 (#75 in the photos), and three Spitfires made the show. Mike Nelson of Omaha brought his 1979 (#95), Matt Gelvin, also of Omaha, had his 1978 (#94), and I drove down from Fremont in my 1980 (#99).

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