The statute of limitations HAS ran out on every one of my 37 things that I have listed, someday I just might write a book about these and a few others I WILL NOT mention on here. There were 40, I took off 3! :wink1:

37 Things
(That I have done, most of which, I would not recommend others try to attempt)

1. Steal a car and not get caught
2. Skip school, in the 2nd grade
3. Beat the crap out of someone
4. Get the crap beat out of yourself, (quite unintentionally)
5. Race something real scary, in a real race, on a real race track
6. Jump out of a perfectly good airplane
7. Have an in depth conversation with a detective, and not by choice
8. Stand on a 14,000 foot high mountain top, just to breath the thin air
9. Spend the weekend in a strange town, in a strange jail
10. Take the

[JakeCroxton]

1. Flagged 2004 All-Star show at Spoon River Speedway, lived to tell about it, and realized just how stupid it was only after Terry McCarl said something in the B-Main winner's circle - right before I'd have to deal with 24 cars. And the gate behind you swings in toward the racetrack.

2. Got to Joplin on the way to the Chili Bowl only to find out via telephone that the Oklahoma State Department of Revenue had posted a big orange placard on the door stating that our hotel's tax license had been revoked due to nonpayment. We stayed across the street.

3. Announced 24 high school basketball games in three days (8 per day, first game at 9am, last at 9:30pm). Final went to overtime, left straight from there and went to the Tulsa Shootout. Arrived at 9:30 just in time for the first race of the day. Our rider wanted to sleep in her own bed, so we drove BACK TO ILLINOIS after the last race at 10:30. Up for roughly 40 hours - and acquired laryngitis due to the fumes after announcing all the games.

4. Flagged the first ever show at the Lincoln, Ill. Speedway. Sat on the front straightaway on the first night (150 cars in four classes - we were overwhelmed) with a seven car Modified pile-up in front of me at 10:30pm (curfew) and two races left in staging, watching Jim Leka tear into somebody. My buddy Allen Motley shoved the microphone in his face when he started in on us, and that ended the conversation.

5. Saw a racecar end up in a tree at Macomb, Ill. where I started working at 16. The LaMoine River borders the property and could actually be considered the retaining wall if you go over the banking in turn two. The tree in question was above the river.

At 23, I'm sure there are many other unique occurences that I will add to my "never seen that before" file...

JC

[Eric C]

1. while leading a Moto-Cross race at Winchester in the 70s, have the coil break off the frame and I was able to hold it in place to make ground and refire it and still win the race.

2. Me and my buddies while we had 10 or 12 to many climbed to the top of the Clermont water tower and had another, then successfully climbed down.

3. Seen the "KINGS" final performance at Market Square Arena.

4. When I was 24 slept with a woman who was twice my age while my buddy who was 22 was in the other room with her sister who was twice his age.

5. spent a night in jail for having a case of unopened beer in the back of my truck when I was 18 years old, the cop would of let us go if we would have said who bought it for us, problem was it was my buddies Mom.

6. Turned down a ticket to go see the Colts in the Super Bowl last year.

7. At 24 years old owned a 1979 Porsce 930 Turbo Slant Nose that I bought and paid for with my very own hard earned $$$$

8. Was car owner of the 81 Kenyon car this past season that was driven by Nelson Stewart (Tonys Dad)

9. Lived through the 70s and feel I am a better person today because of it.

10. Met my wife at a bar 18 years ago and have been together every night since.


Eric C

[Danny Burton]

Some of these are simply too much information....:emote20:

1. Saw Jack Hewitt's last ride
2. Saw Butch Wilkerson's last ride
3. Talk with Mel Kenyon during a rain delay while sitting on his right tire under a tarp and with Mel sitting in the cockpit, just in case it stopped raining. (It didn't.)
4. Presented a HARF t-shirt to Dickie Gaines after he won at Bloomington on my 50th birthday. Yeah, Marv, that was a long time ago.
5. Went go-kart racing with several co-workers, most all who were younger than me and kicked their collective a@@es.
6. Won the 50/50 a few years back at L'burg---on my birthday
7. Saw Dickie's car get stuck on the fence at Bloomington, like a fly on flypaper.
8. Saw J.T. Stapp's car stick in the ground, nose first.
9. Was tongue tied at the 2007 HARF Banquet when I was presented the Gene Powlen Award, one that I still can't believe that I won.
10. Took my grandson to his first race at age 6 months and now he is a fan for sure.
11. Was "persuaded" by the late Lenny Calinoff to write a story. So I did, then wrote a few more. Thanks in large part to J. Levan (taz70739 here) I'm still at it.
12. For good measure: all along the way, I've made a lot of good friends, many of whom post here. Look forward to meeting many more before I take the ultimate checkered flag:checkered: