Pat White wrote:
>Thanks for those vintage photos, Mark! They really brought back some
>memories. Do you recall the exact year they were taken? It looks like 1972
>or 1973. Is it just me, or does Cal Rayborn look like George Thorogood? Is
>that Paul Smart chatting up the girl on the pit wall?
>
>In 1974 and 1975 I was at Daytona as a race mechanic (1974 for Frank Gamble
>on TZ250 and 1975 for Ernie White's rider Brian Henderson on TZ250 and
>TZ750). As well, I raced a TD-3 in Canada and at Nelson Ledges in '74 and
>'75.
>
>The RD and RZs came later ('82-'84), after a six-year layoff to build up my
>income to where I could actually afford to race. My last race bike was the
>FZ750 in 1985, and I still have it.
>
>Do you have anymore vintage pix to show in this 2006 Daytona Speed Week?
Well I don't have *any* Daytone photos to show of! Never been to
Daytone, amazing as that may seem. The photos in the links are by
Allen Avins. Webmaster Dean Adams shows 'em off every year about this
time :)
Definitely early 70's stuff, for the most part. Pity there's no data
in the EXIF <Big Grin>
My last race bike was an FZR400. We thrashed that baby to 3rd place in
the *mediumweight* (600cc) class in the last 24-Hour endurance race at
Nelson Ledges in 1993.
