Pat,
One of my favorite pics is of you in the old scoring stand at the Rushville fairgrounds interviewing a very young Tony Stewart. One of my favorite keepsakes is the video tape a friend did that night I "raced" a TQ at Greensburg because it picks up your voice on the loudspeaker.
To those wondering about the quote marks around raced, I looked pretty good in practice and then the rains came. We raced a couple of days later on a much different track. I qualified poorly, spun out twice in my heat and melted down the engine in the semi-feature in Lynn Ambrose's car that Stewart was supposed to race a couple of nights later due to a rookie mistake.
But, how many other writers or photographers can say the scored points in UMRA, drove a Steve Stapp sprinter at Bloomington during a media day and got a couple of laps around IMS as a passenger in a pace car. I still have the trophy Ronnie Ambrose gave me after HE won his heat race.
Most of all, I still remember your voice over that old county fairgrounds track in Greensburg wishing me well as I left my native Hoosier state to a new job in Iowa.
Jim Morrison