All right.....since we're all bragging about how long we've been around, I can't help myself, I have to say my first stage rally was Criterium d' Quebec 1972 as navigator for Jim Eden-Kilgore in a Subaru we built in his dooryard in the four weeks before the rally. Only stage rally Jim ever finished. I then went on to navigate for Steve Dorr, Rich Schnieder, John Ricker, Gary Webb and even an event with Tim O'Neil(probably missed a couple in there). I then drove the in-famous John Deere Quattro for several years with Dan Way and Art Mendolia and John Gauvin and Herb Suessenbach in the right seat. Worked service for Mark Everett and Rich Swenson (and others)a couple of times and have worked every event that was close, press officer for the first World Championship Criterium, Northeast Division Steward in 1988 and 1989, Car 0 for STPR for a lot of years now, course closing in Maine since it started (and tech inspection for the first couple of years until I gave that to Don Taylor), net communications for the first Targa Newfoundland, God, the list is endless! Never a break since that first Subaru in 1972, thank goodness my wife has a sense of humor. Always on the cheap, although it must amount to a couple of $100,000 over 33 years!
The point of all this is that I've never found another motorsport that has the kind of good people that rally has. There simply isn't another adventure in the world that is as much fun as this one is and being with the JB's, John Bellfleurs, the Mark Everetts, and Debbie Seigels and the Don Taylors make it the fun that it is.
Here's to another 20 or so interesting years with rallying!
