Comments on: Legends of Riverside is Right Around the Corner

By: DOUG STOKES

DOUG STOKES — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:38:17 +0000

There’s really no substitiute for BOTH … The machines are wonderful and feeling them run is a real treat.

However (heard that coming, right?)

Hanging out with the really people who ran them … Jerry Grant telling stories about the Targa and the Ford PR guys who followed the Cobras around in practice to pay off the shepherds when the race cars took out their sheep … “At 20 bucks apiece they were running them across the road every time we came by …” or any of a thousand little personal stories that we heard, not from the stage in a speech or a forum … but personally, sitting across from the guy (or gal like Paula Murphy or Linda Vaughn) who was there.

The cars will go on, the heros and legends who made them go won’t alwasy be here … It was (and will be again this year) a weekend to be savored.

THANKS!
Doug Stokes

(Stokes is the Public Relations guy and organizer for the Riverside event)

By: Harlo

Harlo — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:58:11 +0000

I absolutely agree, Jon. I much prefer actually attending a vintage race weekend to watching a movie.. The point I was trying to make was that even the amazing vintage race weekends only go so far towards showing us the glory of racing’s past..

But I agree, there’s no substitute for the sights, sounds, and emotion of an actual race.

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:52:28 +0000

We can’t time travel back to the 1950s, but I went to the Monterey Historics last year and the pit area alone was better than any car show I’ve been to. Also Coronado in San Diego is fantastic. Vintage racing is an incredible blend of history, style and sport.

So, I hear what you’re saying, but I’d much rather see, hear and smell the cars than listen to speeches from the drivers of the time. That said, now that I own a 1950s Porsche (for touring, not racing… yet), I’d love to go for a couple of laps with one of these guys… THAT would be a legendary event.