[Zeke]

I was with a small Formula 5000 team (3 plus the driver, who flew in for the race weekend and did nothing) and it was long travel days in the big van truck and long days at the venue. It was also a lot of fun for a 20 YO. I did this for part of one season. They didn't have the budget to race all the races. (LeGrand). I was paid very little, but given a place to sleep, get a shower and enough food. Mostly fast food, as it were, in the late "60's.

but I got to be around the drivers and celebs of the day. David Hobbs was the hot shoe then. Smothers and Garner were always around somewhere, except they stayed at the best hotels and ate in the best restaurants. No one had a rolling kitchen and personal chef then. I think all that stuff came with guys like Penske when he became an owner.

I was in construction by then. Making money and working normal hours.