SCCA regional events in Texas etc. 1960s-70s through the lens of Jerry Melton

[Michael Clark]

Name drop time - but there's no other way of telling this story.

December 1980 - a used car forecourt in Otahuhu and I'm eating a sausage wrapped in a piece of white bread with Neil Bonnett and Donnie Allison. Neil looks across the road to another used car forecourt and says 'what's that green thing called?'

I look over and there's only one green car - 'That's an Austin 1100'

"Orrztin" says Neil - "that's it - I had me one of them once"

I have wondered ever since how many Austin dealers there would have been in Hueytown Alabama...

[Dale Harvey]

Name drop time - but there's no other way of telling this story.

December 1980 - a used car forecourt in Otahuhu and I'm eating a sausage wrapped in a piece of white bread with Neil Bonnett and Donnie Allison. Neil looks across the road to another used car forecourt and says 'what's that green thing called?'

I look over and there's only one green car - 'That's an Austin 1100'

"Orrztin" says Neil - "that's it - I had me one of them once"

I have wondered ever since how many Austin dealers there would have been in Hueytown Alabama...

I don’t care about the name drop Michael. Good story! I would love to meet up again for beer and a good old chin wag.
Dale.