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Originally Posted by SMS
GM thank you for all the stories. Can’t really add much except I love the Marty B references. In 1981 I had my run in with him at Indianapolis Raceway Park. The day I hit the N2O button on my 67 Camaro for the first time and my 10.90 car went 9.85/138 and I had no competition license. He was waiting for me in the staging lanes and just about ran me off, but I guess in a weak moment and me feigning total surprise and being youhfully ignorant, he let me stay, provided I spent the rest of the day under supervised license runs.  |
Now that's funny!! I am surprised he allowed you to stay. I never saw him cut anyone any slack.
I will give you a "Marty" story. For those of you that didn't know Marty, he was a rather "rotund and not too tall gentleman". When I took my new "Super Stock" car to Indy, I think it was 1977, (not the Yenko), I had borrowed a friend of mine's Dodge D5500 car hauler with an Olenyik enclosed body on the truck to make the trip. The floor of truck where the car was located was probably close to four feet off the ground and when you opened the side door, you had to climb up a couple steps on the side of the body to get in. These really weren't steps, just cut outs in the side of body where your feet went and it wasn't all that easy to make it in. For technical inspection, I should also mention that they had us parked on the circle track and the truck was parked on an angle pointing downward, which made it even harder to get in the truck box. Anyway, I was standing there with my tech card in hand with the side door open when Marty walked up and I got this sick feeling in my stomach. I was thinking, "Oh crap, he's going to throw me out again before I get to even unload the car." Marty took the card out of my hand, looked at me, looked at the car from the ground, looked back at me and without even attempting to get in the truck, stamped the card that I passed tech and told me to have a "Nice Day and Good Luck". I was stunned, I thanked him and got the hell out of there before he changed his mind. Good Times for sure!!!
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