This photo was taken by a BMW club member at a BMW Driving
School (at Nelson Ledges Race track outside Warren Ohio) in fall 1988...
With infamous BMW instructor Bill Ballon of Pittsburgh riding shotgun while
we passed most of the first level students driving
BMW's (He make the comment that I should have BMW car cutouts on the front
fender for each car I passed during the school..There WERE some embarrassed
BMW Drivers there!)...(1981 Chevette with 100,000 miles then)

This photo was taken by a friend..David Dix of State College, PA
at the 1989 SCCA Northeast Divisional Solo2 autocross. The event  took place
in the PA Farm Show parking lot in Harrisburg PA in August 1989 (1981
Chevette with 115k) That summer was very hot nationwide and it was over 100
degrees there daily on Friday, Saturday and Sunday...One of the workers in
the parking lot demonstrated the heat by frying an egg on the surface
Saturday afternoon...
(I attended all the NeDiv events there from 1988-1993..for 6 years..) That
year in Erie PA the car became known as the Vette......and I won the D
Street Prepared class championship In Misery Bay region of Erie and in my
own SCCA region in State College PA...27 weekends of autocross that year!!!
This picture was on my Erie trophy....

This photo was the same event in August 1992 by a
vanity Photographer at the site ('81 Chevette with around 150k)

This photo was taken by a vanity photographer at my first SCCA
Solo2 Nationals in Salina KS in September 1992...     I drove a little too
hard on my first run and ended up on 2 wheels for almost 150 feet before I
'landed' the 2 right wheels again(very,very softly..could hardly feel it!)
and walloped a cone on the course (it looked like a skyrocket going by my
window...up,up and away) When I read my
Valentine 'G-analyst'  for that run, I had exceeded 1.23G right lateral
acceleration  for parts of 5 seconds! It looked like it came down a bit when
it was on 2 wheels....but I wisely let out of the wheel when I tried to make
the corner by turning a little bit further right and the car started to go
up higher! (Corner workers scattered as they thought I was going to roll
it..)
It was really interesting talking to people watching me from the pits as
they described the 'spider web' under my drivers side floor...where I had
punched through with the  Mig many times while repairing the floor
holes..and left the excess wire hanging there...  ;-)

This photo was taken by a very good friend from here whom
now lives in Eastern PA near the Weatherly PA Hillclimb(near Hazleton PA) If
you look closely at the rear Pontiac 1000 aluminum wheels they were actually
spinning pretty violently when this was taken... ;-) (This was heady stuff
back then as I even signed a few autographs at the Hillclimbs I attended
that year and I won one of 2 trophies in Hillclimbs there! )

This photo was taken at an event near my relatives in
Evansville IN at Roberts Stadium in 1994 (I attended that event 7  different
years during the late '80's and '90's usually driving the fully loaded race
car, racing for the weekend of the 4th of July , then vacationing with my
family in Owensboro KY and Evansville for the week afterward....