I've pretty much ignored this forum until Mad Mike revived it a couple of weeks ago. Since its reawakening the great contributions have continued to be posted.
Just to remind folks, I snapped the photos with my little Kodak Pocket Instamatic camera that Mike initially based this thread on.
After reviewing all of the posts since this thread's beginning I notice an early comment I made now seems rather pretentious. That comment stated something to the effect of my not being able to contribute much about the current rally scene but being able to "fill in the blanks" about the pictures I took.
After reading the posts on this thread quite the opposite is true. You folks have filled in a lot of blanks for me. I thought I was fairly plugged in to the rally scene of the mid to late `70s but I've gotten insights from this thread about people and events of the period I had no idea of. Very, very good stuff!
One other thing I've noticed is the idea that many contributors to this thread have expressed interest in the relatively large V-8 powered cars in a number of the pics. While taking nothing away from my admiration of the smaller, more traditional rally cars of the time I also got a kick out of seeing the "big iron" cars being slogged around.
The sound of tweaked-up four cylinder engines screaming around the hills of southern Ohio was stirring and incomparable to me, but as a guy who's formative years were spent around souped-up V-8 street cars and Super Modifieds being thrown around our local short track bullring I must admit having had a soft spot for the big rides. (That made John Buffum's old Triumph TR8 that much cooler to me. It was a small car but with its -- albeit small displacement -- V-8 it sounded like a fugitive from an oval track.)
Thanks to Mad Mike for bringing this thread back to life yet another time!
