 Finally, I found a proper place to display the three awards that were originally awarded to John Victor Bedford at Brands Hatch in 1962 with our Lotus Seven #SB1290.
Today, Khyro asked to borrow my helmet. Then he asked to sit in the Tanner T-5. Perhaps we finally found a driver small enough to do it justice... in 13 years.
 Two years ago, we got a mayday call from a friend in Chino Valley, Arizona to rescue two H-Modified racing machines from the golden era of sports car racing that belonged to his late neighbor. One was restored, one was in rough condition. Rough enough that the family that the cars were left to felt it would be better off going to the recycler.
We did what we had to do. Both cars made the trek to Hubertus, Wisconsin and in time, we learned a great deal about the car we came to know as 'The Pickle' - not just for the odd top color of paint, but for the conundrum that was based in the state it was in. We found it was originally called the Martin Tanner T2, and later, and much more close to home, the Lyne Special. The Lyne Special took its name from Lyne Isaacson, the wife of second-owner Frank Isaacson. During their family's ownership of the car from 1960-1967(ish), the car was painted orange, and captured many wins with a 600cc Mercury outboard engine under the hood- loaned from friend Sandy MacArthur. And so it was Ed Danecki tagged Frank and Lyne's daughter, Eve Pribel, in a post I made two years ago, calling out the Isaacson name having to do with the car. Eve and her husband Jim attended KMPR's Shindig last year, where they reunited the car with the trophies it won, and one of the team sweaters from circa 1965. It was an intense moment. In the year since, The Pickle really started to weigh on us. How many projects should a team really have, where does a project like this land in the priority line, and if the heart of the project is a phone call and 90-minutes away, is it better served there? The answer to that last bit, is quite simply yes. The car Frank Isaacson took the H-Modified win with at the 1965 Badger 200, is back in his family's hands for the first time in 55 years. We're glad we could do our part. |
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