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Old 11-16-2011   #11
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will be emailing you and paypaling you soon jim. I have the dvd you sent me of the pirate racecar. very cool. been wanting to see the corvette challenge car dvd's for years
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Old 11-16-2011   #12
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JIm, I have instructed events with Bill Cooper. He did not make best impression with me but he could drive c4s.Mike
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You know, Coop had the best car control I've ever seen, which is why I chose him to drive. We were at Sebring with Rippie in '95 and we found out our crew had to register in 2 hours. The crew were at our hotel which was 75 miles away. Rippie threw Cooper the keys to his Astro van and told Cooper to go as fast as he could. Coop said "OK, but you pay all the tickets." AS he started to get in the van he realized he didn't even know how to get to the hotel so he asked me if I would go with him. Let me tell you something, that was a ride I'll never forget. FUN!!!!

He was a far better driver than, say, Boris Said. But NASCAR wouldn't give him a license to drive even though they did Boris. Bill had several Cup rides offered to him but NASCAR claimed they didn't want to let him drive because he would win and it wasn't fair for their regular drivers. Of course they do it much different these days.

He did tutor Earnhardt Sr & Jr, Parks and Rudd the year he won there.
Cooper is still drive instructing for one of the car companies and he also has a very stout Corvette which he competes in hill climbs up north in the Montana area where he lives. Now I'd pay BIG money to ride with Cooper up a mountin road. BIG MONEY!!
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Old 11-16-2011   #13
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jim,
I sent you an email about the dvds
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Old 11-17-2011   #14
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jim,
I sent you an email about the dvds
Hey, IO got yours and severasl others. Seems Santa's shopping a little early this year. I'm also including some othe rstuff, like a letter giving the inside story of that Atlanta race. It was really quite amazing seeing as how we had only a handful of a crew.
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