<center><img src="http://i5.yimg.com/5/2270f8fd/h/bb0e91d0/sportscar.jpg"></center><p>Somebody just e-mailed me this scan of the page. I'm waiting at my mailbox for my own copy of the magazine to arrive, so that I can get a better scan for my online scrapbook.....

 

very cool man barely legible heheh...

 

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ok now that's downright unreadable

 

Every time I think I've run out of things to say, someone helps me out with a neat story. Last fall, Rocky Entriken passed along an interesting email exchange he had with a driver from the Solo II Nationals. This driver had caught Rocky's attention because of the ... uh ... unusual paint scheme on his car. Well, I'm always looking for something fun to write about, so I got in touch with the driver. Now usually when I call someone and say I'd like to talk to them for my column in SportsCar, they're ready to settle down and be a star for a few minutes. Not this time. Our hero driver
says, in effect, sure, you can call me, but let me tell you about this other great
story. And that's how I heard about Racing for Tots, which I wrote about in
December.

I may have been diverted last fall, but I didn't lose sight of the story I set out to tell.
Arthur Emerson, of Monroe, NY, debuted a new 2000 Audi TT at the Fort Myers Pro Solo last February, and it immediately made him the target of wags and hecklers up and down the east coast. Audi lists the car's paint color as "aviator gray" but to most of the sideline critics, the paint job lacked sparkle. At that first event, Karen Krauss referred to it as "the delete paint option." Howard Duncan picked up the baton and described it as "battleship gray" at the next event. By the time spring came, the folks
back home had taken up the cause. When another Audi TT drove by at a local
autocross, friends in the Poughkeepsie Sports Car Club chapter of New York
Region insisted on pointing it out, declaring, "that's what your car would look like...with paint on it!"

Emerson took it all in stride, and even fired a preemptive volley or two, before his fellow competitors could get their shots in. By mid-season, the car had new vanity plates, screaming, 'PAINT ME'. The jokes continued, though, with Pat Salerno renaming the car the "personal submersible," so Emerson took the nautical theme to the nationals, with Navy-style numbers and graphics. He even created a mock periscope for the roof.

A network administrator for a small private college in the New York area, Emerson can't be too distressed by the amiable ribbing. The TT was still sporting its off-black paint scheme at the first ProSolo of the 2001 season. This year, Emerson promises the theme is going to be jet fighter, since the car leaves the line like an F-14 off an aircraft carrier catapult. In fact, the car came in first in G Stock at Fort Myers, with Rich Wayne, New York Region's Solo II chair, behind the wheel.

 

Am I the TT with the paint that was referred to in the article at the PSCC event last year?

 

Actually, *any* time that a TT passes an event, Team HUOA is all over me to paint my car that color.

The part that didn't make the article was how they had a paint sample book at one of our PSCC meetings, and everyone was voting on what color I should paint it. Not surprisingly, they picked yellow. OK, everybody sing along with me, "We all race in a yellow submarine, yellow submarine, yellow submarine!"

Today's thought: God only made one fast color, and he covered it with paint on everybody else's cars.....

 

Go AG. The bestest, most controversial color around.

 

where do you get SportsCar magazine from? Phone #, etc...Used to get it a few years ago...Great mag.

 

Go to http://www.scca.org You can also find the mag for sale in book stores