News & Columns

May 2005

The Vintage Opening Day is less than four weeks away. The Vintage first show is on May 7th at Reno-Fernley with the BCRA Mighty Midgets. It will be a good day because I told the weather God to stay away and let us play. The Doctor said I am good to go so I will be there. I think this will be our fourth or fifth year returning to Fernley.

On May 21st. Every BCRA Vintage member that would like to join the "Karz for Kids" car show in Fresno at the Children’s Hospital are invited to bring their Racecar for a static display car show. The entry fee is $25.00 advance registration and $30.00 registration on the show day. We hope to have 6 or 7 Vintage midgets there. Bob has sent out a registration forms to all the BCRA vintage members. Bob told me that last year they had over 180 Street Rods and Classic cars on display. If you need more information you can contact Bob Munier in Madera at (559) 645-7226.

Check out the BCRA Racing web site and you will find the newly updated BCRA Vintage rules. Click on Vintage and there are the rules.

In the April issue of Vintage Oval Racing Magazine on page nine (9) is a short but nice story by Dave Stewart from V.O.R. magazine. Dave was our guest at the BCRA Vintage meeting last February at Ron Dunn’s shop. I spoke to Jim Eiland a few days after Easter Sunday and he said that his daughter Cheryl Neudorf was in U.C.L.A. Med. Center and had just had a complete lung transplant. She is 24 years old and was diagnosed with Cystic Fibroses. I spoke to Jim’s son a few days later and he told me that Cheryl was improving each day. I asked Linda Manning to send the family a get well card from BCRA.

As of April 12th I have been home from the hospital five weeks and feeling great. Rosemarie and I are doing as much walking as we can in between the snowstorms. We both would like to say thank you to all the friends that called and sent cards. I would like to Thank Tom Belifore and Stu Donaldson for covering Vintage Views story for me last month.

I would like to say a Special Thank You to my two son’s Desi and Aaron and our daughter Priya for their help staying with Rosemarie while I was in the hospital and for driving her back and forth to the hospital in Modesto each day. Family is what it is all about.

Thanks again and I hope to see everyone at Reno-Fernley on May 7th.

Pete