andyg wrote:As for LMC, really disappointed as my dad was due to be co-driver and at 76 years old now, not sure if he will be capable in a couple of years - especially given the comforts involved when travelling in my car!
That's a real shame Andy. I'm sure there'll be a way to get him there between us if he wants to go next time.
There's years in him yet! On the MSA Classics runs, one of the drivers (Ferrari 328) is 85 and still going (very) strong. Another entrant bought his Rover P6 new in 1968 and still enters the runs regularly in it at 94, with his son. Yet another (sadly now deceased at 96) used to come with his son in his (the father's) Bora. Ex-racing driver David Render also joins in our fun regularly at 91 in his V12 E-type, doing all the driving himself, no mean feat on the trip to Prague.
76 is spring chicken territory, really - we'll give him a hand!
My dad was constantly running in with the police for speeding, I think they ended up on first name terms. Whenever he couldnt sleep he'd head out on the military road ( along the coast from Freshwater, I.O.W.) looking for youngsters in their hot hatches to have a burn up with. They'd see this grey haired old man in his ponderous Merc 180, and think easy!! then dad would floor it and gain great satisfaction seeing them disapearing off on the S bends trying to stay with him. He was still doing it in his 80's. Just a big kid really.
Allan
andyg wrote:As for LMC, really disappointed as my dad was due to be co-driver and at 76 years old now, not sure if he will be capable in a couple of years - especially given the comforts involved when travelling in my car!
That's a real shame Andy. I'm sure there'll be a way to get him there between us if he wants to go next time.
Paul
As Abe Lincoln once wrote "It's not the years in your life that matter, it's the life in your years."
Colin
"How you see yourself is all very well, but it's how others see you that will determine the results you get as a leader!"
