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WayneB
10-07-2009, 12:55 PM
Just found an excellent article from Lotus Central on the return of the Jim Clark 1965 Indy 500 winning Lotus 38 to Hethel after a long stay at the Henry Ford museum in Deerborne Michigan.

http://www.lotus-central.com/index.php/en/news/289-classic-team-lotus-quarterly-review.html

Ford have sent the car back to Historic Team Lotus to have its condition evaluated .

Here is a pic from the article of Sally Stokes, Jim Clarkes Girlfriend standing underneath the Holiday Inn Hotel Sign .

http://www.classicteamlotus.co.uk/_Attachments/Gallery/Shared/SallyStokes1965L.jpg
Brian Skeoch
10-07-2009, 01:56 PM
Cool..
clockwork
10-07-2009, 04:23 PM
She appears to be waving a dead cat and a set of bagpipes? Unless it was Burns night and it`s a great chieftain `o` the pudding race.:)
WayneB
10-07-2009, 06:20 PM
Apparently Sally Stokes and Hazel Chapman were the first women ever to be allowed in victory lane as there was a men only rule.

Odd that, I always thought Linda Vaughn was the first.
Brian Skeoch
10-07-2009, 06:30 PM
Linda only saw victory lane while laying on her back.. or strapped to the deck lid of this Hurst 442's..

man, if the walls at the Indy Motel could have talked... before they tore it down anyway. I do have an ashtray from the motel.,.
Kylie
10-08-2009, 10:05 PM
Apparently Sally Stokes and Hazel Chapman were the first women ever to be allowed in victory lane as there was a men only rule.

Odd that, I always thought Linda Vaughn was the first.

OMG - that is so backwards and weirdo :thumbdown: Glad people have got out of their narrow minded little shells over there now!
WayneB
10-09-2009, 12:53 AM
:surrender:

http://jacksonville.skirt.com/files/xinha_images/5505/feminism_202b.jpg
Brian Skeoch
10-09-2009, 01:44 PM
yeah, sorry. that was bad what I said about Liinda.

I do remember a story about Louis Meyer and when he won the 1929 Indy 500 his wife, in Los Angeles heard it on the radio that her husband just won the race.. she was worried about him all month and rarely heard from him and had to hear the news on the radio..

pretty sad that the wives were not permitted in the paddock..

I suspect it was because of the bad language and such ? or, they just didnt want them to get hurt ?
Autocross7
10-09-2009, 01:57 PM
Brian, no need to feel bad. Truth is truth and the fact remains that she had way more fun with her life than any of us! Hahaha...:icon18:

wonder if she had a "men only rule"? Hehe...:ohmy:


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