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Hahahaha...well. I know very little about car racing below the surface-thank you for taking the time and effort to educate me!

I mean it-there are people who might take extreme umbrage at a frivolous comment like mine, but you took the opportunity to spread the lore of something I can tell you have great interest in.

That is refreshing...:)

I have a friend who drag races Model T “dragsters”, and I have been exposed to that world, and found it fascinating and fun. He has been involved for some years with a race called “The Race of Gentlemen” (T.R.O.G.) and he took me to an event recently which had many of the same people...

I thought the spectrum of people was great (same thing I hear about NASCAR) These people were enthusiastic, open, and very welcoming. If I saw people working on a car in a booth, they would often engage conversationally if you paused to watch as they worked, answered questions, etc. I am looking forward to going to the main event, which is usually held annually on a beach at the New Jersey shore.

Funny. I went my whole life without knowing much about car racing, and my good friend (who I get to spend more time with now that I am retired) and I had nearly an hour-long conversation on Hudson Hornets as we did some milling work in his friend’s garage filled with hot rods in various states of restoration. All I knew of Hudson Hornets was from the animated feature “Cars”, and I never thought it had much of a connection to anything real (Except the name of the car) but he is an authority on Hudson Hornets, as he has two of them completely restored to the version they had in the cartoon.

He gave me the history of that type of car, how it did, in a meteoric rise to the top, rule the Stock Car circuit for a few short years until new technology came along that made it non-competitive. He would show me an engine, point out the features, then take me to another one, and show the change in the V8 technology that caused the Hudson Hornet’s fall from the top.

It was fascinating.