08-15-2017, 12:08 AM
Seems like we've lost many of the icons of this sport, as well as special friends this year .
Many of us on the west coast attend the Adams race because we know that is the event that the oldest karters
come out for a visit , but every year it's a smaller group that is able to come .
Faye Pierson still comes out to make laps, people line the fences just to see her and she's not just putting around either!
Duffy, Faye and many others that were stars when all this started back in the fifties are celebrities , but they are approachable .
As has been mentioned, you can sit down and have a wonderful discussion as if they had known you for years.
I hadn't talked to Faye since I was a young guy buying parts from their location on Irwindale in Azusa near Duffy's track . That was a good fifty something years ago, but during the evening meal at this years Riverside event we had a nice long chat . She told me to call her anytime and invited me to come over to see her Bug Museum at their K&P location. She has closed the kart shop, rented most of the buildings, but still has her Museum/ office on the property.
This is how it is at Vintage Events and why it's so much fun to visit and listen to all the great stories and make a few laps on the old machines ......we're all getting older so these events are special because of the people still involved !
Knowing that Duffy is gone is painful, but he'll always be a part of those we remember for the memories he has left us with .
Many of us on the west coast attend the Adams race because we know that is the event that the oldest karters
come out for a visit , but every year it's a smaller group that is able to come .
Faye Pierson still comes out to make laps, people line the fences just to see her and she's not just putting around either!
Duffy, Faye and many others that were stars when all this started back in the fifties are celebrities , but they are approachable .
As has been mentioned, you can sit down and have a wonderful discussion as if they had known you for years.
I hadn't talked to Faye since I was a young guy buying parts from their location on Irwindale in Azusa near Duffy's track . That was a good fifty something years ago, but during the evening meal at this years Riverside event we had a nice long chat . She told me to call her anytime and invited me to come over to see her Bug Museum at their K&P location. She has closed the kart shop, rented most of the buildings, but still has her Museum/ office on the property.
This is how it is at Vintage Events and why it's so much fun to visit and listen to all the great stories and make a few laps on the old machines ......we're all getting older so these events are special because of the people still involved !
Knowing that Duffy is gone is painful, but he'll always be a part of those we remember for the memories he has left us with .