[Alex Csank]

Gordy,

Thanks! Skip is practising for the event by driving up to Vermont for a couple of weeks. If I can have as much energy when I am his age, I'll be a truly happy man! Heck, I don't think I have as much energy as he does now and he's got a good 20 years on me!!!!

He prefers beer to wine, loves good jokes and is always going out of his way to help folks out. Just so you guys out West know, Skip is the current MAARC Alfista of the Year, having very deservedly earned our "Roger Medlin Award" for his enthusiasm, helpfulness and participation in the Mid-Atlantic Alfa Romeo Club. I couldn't think of a better ambassador for our very wide-spread Alfa club than Skip. Oh, and by the way...and I don't say this lightly...Skip isn't just my best friend, he's also the most 'intuitive' mechanic I have ever met! He can find, diagnose and fix (not replace, he's way too cheap for that!) just about anything that could ever go wrong with your Alfa, and he would do it all with a piece of wire, a diode from an old radio, a bushing he carved himself and a couple of pieces of metal that he welded together from scraps!!

But please don't keep him! We need him back!!