Lest we forget ....

[Gunny]

Today, March 1 and more importantly, March 2 is the 24th anniversary of the 24 hour record run at Fort Stockton, TX. Check this link

to the drivers, the support team, and all who had a hand in this historic moment.

And in a bit of coincidence but certainly very appropriate in my mind, is that the record run was completed on March 2 in Texas which is also Texas Independence Day dating from 1836 revolution. All of us "old timer" Texans had our history drilled into us from birth ... indeed, many of us had ancestors who arrived in Texas during or just after the revolution.

Thought I would remind everyone ... and if I had a Lone Star I would lift a cool one at midnight; probably have to settle for a Shiner ... thanks Glen, for introducing me to the good taste

[FU]

Thank you George

[ghlkal]

Thanks for reminding us .... what a great car we have

[XfireZ51]

Yes. Thank you George.

[WB9MCW]

Happy 24th!!

Good job to remind us all.

[gbrtng]

Originally Posted by Gunny

Today, March 1 and more importantly, March 2 is the 24th anniversary of the 24 hour record run at Fort Stockton, TX. Check this link

to the drivers, the support team, and all who had a hand in this historic moment.

And in a bit of coincidence but certainly very appropriate in my mind, is that the record run was completed on March 2 in Texas which is also Texas Independence Day dating from 1836 revolution. All of us "old timer" Texans had our history drilled into us from birth ... indeed, many of us had ancestors who arrived in Texas during or just after the revolution.

Thought I would remind everyone ... and if I had a Lone Star I would lift a cool one at midnight; probably have to settle for a Shiner ... thanks Glen, for introducing me to the good taste

From a friend:

Dear Friend of Liberty,
One hundred seventy-eight years ago today, a small group of men gathered at a tiny settlement on the Brazos River. They were representatives of a lost cause, and heralds of a doomed effort. Their homes were burned, their towns sacked, their armies defeated, and their people scattered in a desperate flight to the northeast - toward the Sabine River and the United States, out of the deadly reach of Santa Anna and his Mexicans.

Their only hopes rested in three armies. One was trapped at the Alamo and would be massacred within the week. One was campaigning in the southeast and would be captured, and also massacred, within the month. And one was barely formed under Sam Houston - and it was fleeing along with them.

There at Washington-on-the-Brazos, on March 2nd, 1836, things looked hopeless. So the Texans assembled there did the only thing they could:

They declared independence.

"We .. the delegates with plenary powers of the people of Texas, in solemn convention assembled, appealing to a candid world for the necessities of our condition, do hereby resolve and declare, that our political connection with the Mexican nation has forever ended, and that the people of Texas do now constitute a free, Sovereign, and independent republic, and are fully invested with all the rights and attributes which properly belong to independent nations; and, conscious of the rectitude of our intentions, we fearlessly and confidently commit the issue to the decision of the Supreme arbiter of the destinies of nations."

You know the rest: they lost, and they lost, and they lost again - until they finally won, on a small field at a small place called San Jacinto.

That's how Texas began. Our Lone Star State didn't start with men seeking riches. It didn't start with a striving for comfort. It didn't start with an easy accommodation with power. Our Texas was a gesture of defiance, a last stand, a seemingly doomed fight for justice and freedom.

Thanks George for reminding us - Washington on the Brazos and Fort Stockton are events never to be forgotten.

TGF

[edram454]

Great achievement by people who believed in the car and its capabilities. They went out and proved it. They are great cars and so fun to drive.

[ZR-1 Franz]

You should never forget, that you can't find any other street legal car in the
whole world, which did all these records! No Mercedes, no Ferrari, no BMW,
no Porsche, no..... and so on. The ZR-1 was and is an outstanding high performance sports car!


Franz

[WydGlydJim]

Not to take anything away from the car, because I love em, and the feat is an extraordinary thing by the car, but when I read about the actual event, the overall accomplishment is even more extraordinary.

I don't think most people who have not read about that day truly understand the monumental undertaking.
Logistics, safety, the drivers, the insane effort it takes to drive in that manner for that long, the risks and danger, I think some drivers bowed out due to those factors, the pit stops, driver changes, and then the cars performance..just simply amazing

I cross posted about it on the CF in OT.

[XfireZ51]

Originally Posted by WydGlydJim

Not to take anything away from the car, because I love em, and the feat is an extraordinary thing by the car, but when I read about the actual event, the overall accomplishment is even more extraordinary.

I don't think most people who have not read about that day truly understand the monumental undertaking.
Logistics, safety, the drivers, the insane effort it takes to drive in that manner for that long, the risks and danger, I think some drivers bowed out due to those factors, the pit stops, driver changes, and then the cars performance..just simply amazing

I cross posted about it on the CF in OT.

Jim,

First of all, great article in WACs. Awesome.
Second and to your point this was an amazing undertaking and here we are, nearly a quarter of a century later, and no challenge to it. Even more disappointing, no acknowledgement of it in the Corvette or automotive press.
That just plain sucks.