Blast from the past... TWS (Aug. '05)

[marshall_mosty]

Back, long, long ago... It's amazing to see those who are still around. Who's changed paint schemes. Who isn't in the pictures, but are major players now... amazing group both then and now.

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[michaelmosty]

Wow, Glenn's car looks clean!!!! 8)

[Rob Liebbe]

Wow, Glenn's car looks clean!!!! 8)

I was thinking the same thing about both Glenn's and Mitch's. In fact the most of the cars looked so clean.

[mitchntx]

Wow, Glenn's car looks clean!!!! 8)

I was thinking the same thing about both Glenn's and Mitch's.

2005 ... that was pre-Fernandez

That was weekend #3 for me ...

[Rob Liebbe]

2005 ... that was pre-Fernandez

Yeah - he does seem to wreak havoc wherever he goes.

[Fbody383]

I only know the 91 car with all the aero that came later.

[ShadowBolt]

Who owned the silver number 50 Mustang? I think that guy was running the Drivers Edge and left for CMC but when we came racing he was already gone.


JJ

[jeffburch]

2nd w'end for me.
1st event gridding as qual.
I believe I got my 1st win ever in the Sunday morning race :) .
Who shot these photos?

jb

[jeffburch]

Who owned the silver number 50 Mustang? I think that guy was running the Drivers Edge and left for CMC but when we came racing he was already gone.
JJ

You're joking right?
That's MFW!

jb

[Rsmith350]

Who owned the silver number 50 Mustang? I think that guy was running the Drivers Edge and left for CMC but when we came racing he was already gone.
JJ

You're joking right?
That's MFW!

jb

Holy crap Matt! What an evolution!

[Rob Liebbe]

If that was Glenn's 3rd weekend, then my car was still wadded up after its first track event. Glenn recovered a lot faster than I did.

[ShadowBolt]

Who owned the silver number 50 Mustang? I think that guy was running the Drivers Edge and left for CMC but when we came racing he was already gone.
JJ

You're joking right?
That's MFW!

jb

Holy crap Matt! What an evolution!

I'm not joking. There was a guy that ran with TDE (silver mustang just like MFW"S). Between DE's he started doing CMC racing. He was one of the slowest guys at TDE so Jay and I thought if he can do it we can do it. We thought we would run into him (not like Al does) when we stepped up to run with NASA but no one remembers him. His dad was always with him. I would say it was about a year or two tops prior to us joining.

JJ

[marshall_mosty]

Who shot these photos?

JB,
I shot the pics on my good old 3.1MP point and shoot Fuji.

[BryanL]

Who owns the 68 Camaro?

[David Love AI27]

LiiR was in the infeild on the drag strip

[AI#97]

Jerry, I did a Driver's edge event in 05' and went from Green to Red in one weekend. Daron was my first instructor....been a lot of fun racing against him over the years. there was a guy who had a car like mine that used to autoX with me...don't know whatever happened to him.

That was the last "street" duty my car ever saw. I was still driving it on the street then and it only had 21k miles on it. 2 months later, I went after it with a sawzall and welder! I want to say that was the weekend I gave marshall a ride and had the camera pointed backwards...?

Considering how many cars in those photos AREN'T racing with us now, imagine how large the field would be if we got them all to return! WOW!!!

good post marshall!!!

[marshall_mosty]

Who owns the 68 Camaro?
Michael Tomlin. He was building a CMC car several years ago, but we haven't heard much from him. He owns/runs a powdercoating shop (IIRC) here in the DFW metroplex.

[jeffburch]

He was building a Cougar iirc.
jb

[GlennCMC70]

a Capri actually .

[jeffburch]

blah blah they all look alike....... :lol:
jb

[cjlmlml]

Jerry, I did a Driver's edge event in 05' and went from Green to Red in one weekend. !!!


Amazing. Truly.

[Adam Ginsberg]

My last conversation with Mike Tomlin was about a year or so ago. He got divorced, and that, for some strange reason, put his whole racing agenda on hold.

He bought an 85 Capri that was a former A/S car that needed a metric shit ton of work.....I warned him not to buy the damn thing. The entire cage had to be replaced, which led to a complete rebuild.....which may have led to his divorce. j/k ;)

I really hope Mike is able to come out and race with you guys some day soon. Love his 1st Gen Mullet-mobile.

[AI#97]

Jerry, I did a Driver's edge event in 05' and went from Green to Red in one weekend. !!!


Amazing. Truly.

I was reluctant to do so...but Daron threw me out there and said "get to it"... He may have just wanted out of the car!!! LOL!!!

[mitchntx]

My last conversation with Mike Tomlin was about a year or so ago.


He coated my Y-Pipe last year. His car looks like it's about 70% complete.

[AllZWay]

Isn't he doing the band thing also? A friend of a friend was telling me he met Mike doing a band gig or something like that.

[Chuck]

If that was Glenn's 3rd weekend, then my car was still wadded up after its first track event. Glenn recovered a lot faster than I did.


Rob,

I did not know about your old incident. For us newbie folks, what happened? Is this the car that is now the flag car?

Chuck
CMC#14

[GlennCMC70]

here is my hit from the same wreck.

[GlennCMC70]

here it is by 3am Sat morning. didnt even miss qual.

[Rob Liebbe]

Yep, Glenn was in the same crash. He did an amazing job of recovery and made it to the track the next day. I was not as lucky.

This happened during a licensing school for NASA at Cresson. My partner at the time was getting his license in our/my car and it was the first day on the track. At the end of the day, they held a mock race with all these newbie drivers. I was not at the track at the time of the crash.

From what I understand, the group was coming out of Big Bend, a Factory Five Cobra lost it and went off track to driver's left. Instead of staying out there and collecting the car, he corrected to come back on track and shot across the track in front of a bunch of cars. I'm still not clear when Glenn's car got hit, but the Cobra came across the front of my Mustang from left to right, smearing the front of my car and turning it clockwise and then a Spec Miata drilled the passenger door.

I don't think NASA does the mock races anymore.

The Texas Flag theme came after the junkyard theme you see below.

[GlennCMC70]

i remember the details quite clearly, even after 5 years. it was also my first day on track w/ this car.
the offending driver is a "well known" driver in Group 7. :roll:
Rob left out the part where he went off at Big Bend on driver right, then back across to driver left, then back on track and collected 3 other cars. i got off easy. the SPEC Miata (Blake?) didnt take long to get back, and Rob got F'ed.
i remember seeing him go across from right to left and thinking "ok, he's clear", then the two cars to my left and right pealed off to there respective sides as he came back on track and i had no place to go. i think my contact put him into Rob or the Miata. i didnt see that part.
the Cobra was crunched bigtime. if he would have been hit on the drivers side, he would have been killed. the car was not up to NASA CCR cage requirements, and the driver was not ready for racing. some of out NASA folks got in some really hot water over this.

[mitchntx]

Glenn/Rob ...

Did either of you ever apologize to that guy?

[GlennCMC70]

he's lucky i didnt kick his ass............

[Rob Liebbe]

Glenn,

Did you hit the Cobra in the passenger door? I always thought we did that. But like I said, I wasn't there. I got a phone call that my new race was just totalled.

Picture of Cobra Passenger seat.

[Rob Liebbe]

The Cobra driver did apologize to me the next time he saw me.

[GlennCMC70]

he attempted to w/ me, but it was a poor attempt.
i've had numerous run in's w/ him since.
same guy who stalled the C4/C5 on a standing start at Hallet a few years back that resulted in a total cluster F.

[jeffburch]

:lol: :lol: :lol:


jb

[mitchntx]

Glenn/Rob ...

Did either of you ever apologize to that guy?


The Cobra driver did apologize to me the next time he saw me.


he attempted to w/ me, but it was a poor attempt.



Must be a Ford thing ... :P

[Rob Liebbe]

It was a pretty weak apology to me as well.

[Todd Covini]

Glenn/Rob ...

Did either of you ever apologize to that guy?

Instigator. :roll:

[David Love AI27]

Glenn/Rob ...

Did either of you ever apologize to that guy?

Instigator. :roll:

not Mitch :wink:

[mitchntx]

Glenn/Rob ...

Did either of you ever apologize to that guy?

Instigator. :roll:

Mustang owner :roll:

[David Love AI27]

Glenn/Rob ...

Did either of you ever apologize to that guy?

Instigator. :roll:

Mustang owner :roll:

be nice, he can't help that the California sun fried his little brain... that Cali sun is ruthless, first it attacks the hair and when thats all gone it goes after the brain cells... and even if you have "partied" away most of the cells it can still "seek and destroy"...

[Chuck]

Thanks for the history lesson. Rob, I see where the flag theme came from now. I didn't intend to open an old wound.

Chuck
CMC#14