10-28-2009, 01:24 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2009
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Originally Posted by Don Brock
Steve, I know a little about your dads Alfa. My name is Don Brock and that's me sitting next to your dad, holding the checkered flag,in the photo. I hung around Foreign Car Service in Riverside so long that Bob and Lee gave me a job. I "worked" ,mostly polished, the TR2 (with a TR3 front end) and went to my first race in Las Vegas with Bob, Lee and Chuck. Later Alfa gave them two Spyders, my job was to scrape out the undercoating and sound proofing, the messyest thing I've ever done. I preped the cars, took the engines to Van Nuys to John Shankle, did all the running around to Alfa in El Segundo for parts and towed the car all over (while Bob and Lee mostly flew). I was about 18 or 19 at the time and did this untill I was drafted. I had the best time a kid could have, met the most interesting people and saw alot of U.S.
As for your dad and Lee, I learned everything from them. About life and it's posibilities, about Jazz, about just know the difference between being and living. I wish I could relate more car details, I do remember alot and that was 43 years ago, but I would not know where to start. But I will tell you, your father was a good man, maybe the best I ever met.
Don
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