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Originally Posted by Hubie48
Thanks for making aware. Some really cool things
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You're welcome. It has been a blast to go through the items and find out the back story of some items. Like the Exercise Muscle Machine (Lot 7672) from Rutherford. He told me Eddie Sachs gave the thing to Bobby Marshman. Marshman gifted it to Johnny Rutherford in the early 1960s. Johnny said he and Betty spent many a nights sitting in front of the TV with Johnny working the steering wheel, connected to the Houdaille shock, turning it back and forth to build upper body arm strength. There were no power steering cars in those days.
Another cool item is the IROC Tach (Lot 7474) that Mike Follmer awarded to Bobby Unser after the 1975 IROC Riverside race. Seems they had problems with the Tach and used an alligator clip to make it work and he went on to win the race. So the crew took the tach and made this award they gave to Bobby.
Bart