08-19-2020, 06:51 PM
Chapter 58
Why did it take so long? Its been four months. The Cates kart made some decent progress and then stopped. What happened? The last four months have flown by and now more than a month in to summer. We are no closer to getting to the track than when school let out.
Sure there have been a few setbacks. We have gotten sidetracked more than once. All of those engines that showed up right when we needed them didnt help us any just yet. All I have wanted to do is race karts. But seems everything else is happening at break neck speed and no time left to spend towards anything that will get us to the track.
We now have two Cates karts. Well almost two of them. Unfortunately they are both only partially assembled. There are plenty of engines, but none are put together running and ready to bolt on the unfinished karts. This is frustrating to the inth degree. The second time I have said that and still dont even know what it is supposed to mean.
It is yet another Monday again. Happens the same time every week. Even tho my typing class was finished, summer school is still in session. Just about one more month left. Today I am heading back up to school. Back to the science class. But this time to honor my promise to Mr Pennington.
He asked me to keep him up to speed on what I worked out with the flywheels. I dont know why he would be really interested, but doesnt matter. That was the agreement. Classes should be just about over for the day. It is early afternoon. I dont want to interrupt his class like that one visit.
My plan is to do a quick in and out when his class is done today. That way I dont have to bore Mr Pennington to death. Also I pay up my end of the agreement with him. Hopefully, he will be ready to leave for the day and just run me off. Oh well, time to get it over with. I have my notebook with me to make it look good.
Since the typewriter showed up I spent some late hours typing up these hand written pages. Geez that was a lot of work. But Steve was correct. I was able to rewrite most of the early stuff and it really makes more sense now. It is actually more informative than just scribbled gibberish like before. I really dont know why I even brought it up here. Mr Pennington wouldnt have any interest in the stuff.
The other students are walking out right now, so his class must have just finished. I go on in and say my hello. He looks up from his desk and gets a big smile on is face. Hello, Mr Bentley. Oh noes. Back to the Mr. thing again. I wish he would use my first name. Mr belongs to my dad, not me.
I just stopped by to update you on my findings like I promised. Its no big deal if you are not that interested. It helped me out of a jam. I do want to thank you for putting up with me. I sit down in the chair up against one side of his desk. Then open up the notebook to the page with the information of the flywheels.
Are you kidding? I am very interested in what you found out. By the way, I talked to Lynn a couple weekends ago at the track. I had mentioned to him about a graduated former student that was deeply involved in something I assume is related to racing karts. Would I be correct in that assumption?
When I mentioned your name he raised an eyebrow and garnered a big smile across his face. May I also assume you are the reference to the Terry he was going on about? He asked me about what you were up to. He has not been back the the Fabens track since the night of an accident that you were involved in. Is that right? I was talking with him at the Whizzer kart track. I guess you normally race at Fabens Speedway, since it is so close by. Have you been to Whizzer to see our new facility?
Lynn? The track, Huh? Mr Cates? You know each other? Whizzer? The track? Where is it? Why were you out there? Wow I am really confused right now. Mr Pennington, can you like start at the beginning and fill me in on what we are talking about?
He is looking over my notes about the flywheels and reads farther on about other parts of the Clintons I have compiled information on. Very good and informative. You are starting to build a good data base. Keep it up. This is very solid and can be used for future developments.
Oh by the way I am the official scoring director at the Whizzer kart track. I do race some nights, but mostly as of late, been too occupied with keeping all of the scoring duties up to par. We have just installed a new timing light system. It can now handle two karts on the track simultaneously.
The kart I have is manufactured over in Shreveport. I picked it up last year. It is a Simplex Mark II. Currently the kart is powered by a single McCulloch model Mc-6 engine. But I have been considering the Senior bushing class. It looks like a bunch of fun. Not as much work and I dont need to spend all that time preparing it to race every week.
This might give me an option to race some nights even if I am working the scoring tower. When I saw those flywheels, my first thoughts were for karts. But we never discussed what you were doing the research for. But either way, I thought the information may still come in handy even if you were doing it for something else. That is why I wanted to be kept in the loop, so to speak with your project.
Lynn had been telling a few guys about a little upset at Fabens that happened a few months ago. He seemed to think he was partially responsible for a brand new potential driver getting hurt. He did say how much relieved he was a few days later to find out the person in question was in good spirits and still very interested in getting to race.
He didnt know what you were doing as of late. He has not talked to you in several months. Are you currently racing or still planning too? Yes sir, I mean my plans are to start racing. Just so many things I need to get done before it happens. I am about to think it may not even happen this summer. The more I focus on getting my kart together, the more things that need to be done.
I really want to build up a super cool Clinton, since that what I have several of. But happen to be short of several things, including two engines that are together and running right now. This is one of the things I am trying to resolve soon as possible. I dont even have any safety gear yet.
Well Mr Bentley, I dont want to hold you up and take any more of your time today. I know exactly where you are coming from. If there is anything I can do to help out, you know where to find me for the rest of this month. If you ever get a chance to come out to the Whizzer kart track, be sure to look me up there. I will be across on the back side of the straightaway in that scoring tower most race nights.
Why did it take so long? Its been four months. The Cates kart made some decent progress and then stopped. What happened? The last four months have flown by and now more than a month in to summer. We are no closer to getting to the track than when school let out.
Sure there have been a few setbacks. We have gotten sidetracked more than once. All of those engines that showed up right when we needed them didnt help us any just yet. All I have wanted to do is race karts. But seems everything else is happening at break neck speed and no time left to spend towards anything that will get us to the track.
We now have two Cates karts. Well almost two of them. Unfortunately they are both only partially assembled. There are plenty of engines, but none are put together running and ready to bolt on the unfinished karts. This is frustrating to the inth degree. The second time I have said that and still dont even know what it is supposed to mean.
It is yet another Monday again. Happens the same time every week. Even tho my typing class was finished, summer school is still in session. Just about one more month left. Today I am heading back up to school. Back to the science class. But this time to honor my promise to Mr Pennington.
He asked me to keep him up to speed on what I worked out with the flywheels. I dont know why he would be really interested, but doesnt matter. That was the agreement. Classes should be just about over for the day. It is early afternoon. I dont want to interrupt his class like that one visit.
My plan is to do a quick in and out when his class is done today. That way I dont have to bore Mr Pennington to death. Also I pay up my end of the agreement with him. Hopefully, he will be ready to leave for the day and just run me off. Oh well, time to get it over with. I have my notebook with me to make it look good.
Since the typewriter showed up I spent some late hours typing up these hand written pages. Geez that was a lot of work. But Steve was correct. I was able to rewrite most of the early stuff and it really makes more sense now. It is actually more informative than just scribbled gibberish like before. I really dont know why I even brought it up here. Mr Pennington wouldnt have any interest in the stuff.
The other students are walking out right now, so his class must have just finished. I go on in and say my hello. He looks up from his desk and gets a big smile on is face. Hello, Mr Bentley. Oh noes. Back to the Mr. thing again. I wish he would use my first name. Mr belongs to my dad, not me.
I just stopped by to update you on my findings like I promised. Its no big deal if you are not that interested. It helped me out of a jam. I do want to thank you for putting up with me. I sit down in the chair up against one side of his desk. Then open up the notebook to the page with the information of the flywheels.
Are you kidding? I am very interested in what you found out. By the way, I talked to Lynn a couple weekends ago at the track. I had mentioned to him about a graduated former student that was deeply involved in something I assume is related to racing karts. Would I be correct in that assumption?
When I mentioned your name he raised an eyebrow and garnered a big smile across his face. May I also assume you are the reference to the Terry he was going on about? He asked me about what you were up to. He has not been back the the Fabens track since the night of an accident that you were involved in. Is that right? I was talking with him at the Whizzer kart track. I guess you normally race at Fabens Speedway, since it is so close by. Have you been to Whizzer to see our new facility?
Lynn? The track, Huh? Mr Cates? You know each other? Whizzer? The track? Where is it? Why were you out there? Wow I am really confused right now. Mr Pennington, can you like start at the beginning and fill me in on what we are talking about?
He is looking over my notes about the flywheels and reads farther on about other parts of the Clintons I have compiled information on. Very good and informative. You are starting to build a good data base. Keep it up. This is very solid and can be used for future developments.
Oh by the way I am the official scoring director at the Whizzer kart track. I do race some nights, but mostly as of late, been too occupied with keeping all of the scoring duties up to par. We have just installed a new timing light system. It can now handle two karts on the track simultaneously.
The kart I have is manufactured over in Shreveport. I picked it up last year. It is a Simplex Mark II. Currently the kart is powered by a single McCulloch model Mc-6 engine. But I have been considering the Senior bushing class. It looks like a bunch of fun. Not as much work and I dont need to spend all that time preparing it to race every week.
This might give me an option to race some nights even if I am working the scoring tower. When I saw those flywheels, my first thoughts were for karts. But we never discussed what you were doing the research for. But either way, I thought the information may still come in handy even if you were doing it for something else. That is why I wanted to be kept in the loop, so to speak with your project.
Lynn had been telling a few guys about a little upset at Fabens that happened a few months ago. He seemed to think he was partially responsible for a brand new potential driver getting hurt. He did say how much relieved he was a few days later to find out the person in question was in good spirits and still very interested in getting to race.
He didnt know what you were doing as of late. He has not talked to you in several months. Are you currently racing or still planning too? Yes sir, I mean my plans are to start racing. Just so many things I need to get done before it happens. I am about to think it may not even happen this summer. The more I focus on getting my kart together, the more things that need to be done.
I really want to build up a super cool Clinton, since that what I have several of. But happen to be short of several things, including two engines that are together and running right now. This is one of the things I am trying to resolve soon as possible. I dont even have any safety gear yet.
Well Mr Bentley, I dont want to hold you up and take any more of your time today. I know exactly where you are coming from. If there is anything I can do to help out, you know where to find me for the rest of this month. If you ever get a chance to come out to the Whizzer kart track, be sure to look me up there. I will be across on the back side of the straightaway in that scoring tower most race nights.