I always thought it was because my Dad and I never forgot when it was, and who the drivers were, without TV, all we had was an AM radio, sitting on an upside down metal bucket, in his "lean to" garage, complete with dirt floor, and we sat and listened, no talking, till our butts went to sleep, listening to Tom Carnagie tell the whole story as it unfolded, we didn't need to "see" a Novi coming, you knew what it was by the way it sounded, a sound I'll never forget, just like today, a P51 Mustang made a pass thru, those are sounds that make your heart race, and you know what it is, without "seeing" it, the Offies were all tuned a bit different, and almost all of them had a sound of their own, then the V8's, the diesels and all the high reving foreign entries, to me, that's what made it famous, we couldn't afford to go, but we sure enjoyed it, together, out in the "garage", which was a stretch, but it's where I learned to weld, build flatheads and hot rods, with what I could scrape together, and all the "gang" came to visit, play horseshoes, eucher, and I don't think anyone turned out bad. Those days are gone, and it's sad, that only a few of us are left that were a part of it, the stories can be told over and over, but without being there, it will never "sound" right! Bob
"Being old, isn't half as much fun, as getting there"! Ole Robert I!
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