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[racinggeek]

 

Another image of Jacques at speed in the Argetsinger Elden, here heading down the straight just before the Sargento Bridge on the way to T5.

Edited by racinggeek, 17 July 2023 - 23:11.

[B Squared]

Jacques sent me a note that he ran Michael's Elden FF to third in class at Road America this past weekend during the Ariens Art on Wheels Vintage Weekend featuring VSCDA. He and Paul Jay on the grid,

[Ray Bell]

Interesting, Brian...

 

And a perfect excuse for me to report on Bob Britton's reading of the Michael Argetsinger books about Walt Hansgen and Mark Donohue.

 

Bob's life these days no longer have him in his workshop building cars, cars just like the Elden, but his interests in these things still burn brightly and his reading is done with great intensity.

 

"That Michael Argetsinger sure could write!" he told me the other day. And Bob is one who has the background and the understanding to say such things with knowledge and passion. He said he'd love to have met Michael and knows much more about the subjects of the books because of Michael's detailed writing. Bob knows much more about the settings in which these drivers raced and the people with whom they spent their time and how they operated thanks to the details related by Mike.

[DCapps]

Next week, Saturday 30 September, the IMRRC is holding a celebration for its 25 years and the 75th anniverary of the Watkins Glen Grand Prix.

 

Thanks especially to Mike and his mother, Jean, along with a host of others of course, we have the IMRRC.

 

While Mike could certainly talk -- thanks to our many, many multi-hour phone conversations along the many hours chatting while together I can attest to that, he was always so focused on his writing.

 

It always seemed that Mike knew no end of writers as well as those shakers & movers within motor sport and managed to get them to come to the Research Center for talks.

 

As Brian and others here can attest, you could ask for no finer friend than Mike.

 

The Michael Argetsinger Symposium is probably about the best tribute we could envision for Mike. He would have loved it! 

[racinggeek]

Jacques sent me a note that he ran Michael's Elden FF to third in class at Road America this past weekend during the Ariens Art on Wheels Vintage Weekend featuring VSCDA. He and Paul Jay on the grid,

 

And here's Mr. Dresang in action with the Argetsinger Elden last weekend at Road America, flat out (we assume) on the downhill straight between T3 and T5 Sunday morning: