Venture Adventure

Sam Butrous, who I met at the CMU Startup meetup on Monday, found this.

July, 1992. I was taking a race-engine design/build class. I can’t remember who gave the class, but he was a good friend of Roy Howell, the Chief Chemist for Redline Oil. Roy came and gave us a talk about oils, and then we went out to dinner (I want to say at the Peppermill, on DeAnza, but my memory could be failing me).

Before the web, we actually communicated this information through mail lists. This one went to the Wheel to Wheel mailing list, which is still in operation 16 years later.

It’s nice that the Vintage Triumph Register reformatted it in HTML, but they missed on the crude ASCII graphics. Ironically, I was racing a Triumph Spitfire 1300cc in F-Prod at the time.

Stuff that I wrote pre-web is turning up in searches.  The Internet really is The Archive!

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