I think you guys will like this...
I live on the west side of Indianapolis. My wife and I got invited to the Indy 500 Breakfast this past Saturday morning at the track by a very kind man. We knew their would be Indy car drivers around, so I wanted to take something for them to sign. I took a HPI 67 Corvette body I had painted but not run at the track. (There's pictures of it further back in this thread
HERE. Our track allowed them for VTA.)
After leaving the breakfast, we wandered the area around Gasoline Alley with garage/pit passes we'd been given. We ran into Tony Kanaan and Graham Rahal and we'd met Johnny Rutherford at the breakfast. They all signed the Corvette body!
Johnny Rutherford took some time to sign it. He thought the Corvette body was "really neat." I was a happy camper for sure. Martin Plowman sat with us at the Breakfast. He's an American Le Mans driver and also runs R/C! He signed it too (on the other side).
I was rooting for Tony Kanaan Sunday. Not because of getting an autograph, I just think he's make a great winner, and its got to be his time at some point to win at Indy.
When we got home, my son said, "you aren't going to run that body are you Dad?" I played him for a while and told him, "well, that's what I painted it for, autographs or no autographs." I had him going. I finally told him no I wouldn't, its going on a shelf.
Maybe I can get some more drivers to sign it next year. Hope so!
Scott
