Shameless OT - WAY TO GO, DA-REE-OH!!!

[Marty Bonnar]

So the lad from FBD's hometown takes the Indy 'Crown'.

Call me a hopeless old romantic, but when I was buying Ice Cream from his Dad's van when I was a kid in small(VERY)town 60s Scotland, do you think I could ever have imagined such a scenario?

http://www.indy500.com/

FREAKIN' MAGNIFICENT!!!! YAHOO!

FBD.

[Brian_Ewen]

And also the hometown of Bernard Gallacher ? .

[Mike Benham]

News travels slow across the pond?

[John_Conley]

And he couldn't have looked less athletic when he threw out the first pitch a few days later.

[Rich Goodale]

Martin

Were the Proclaimers misinformed when they sang that Bathgate was "no more?"

Thanking you in advance

Richard

[GDStudio]

He was just in a hurry to get back to that wifey...RRRRRRR

[Marty Bonnar]

Brian,
indeed and nephew Stephen from nearby Dechmont too!

Mike,
no, just been busy having my Real (not-GCA) Life!!!

John,
Stewart's Melville boys are generally FAR better at throwing balls BACKWARDS!

Farnzo,
BMC no more!!

B,
those Franchitti boys always had the best-looking women (and the Hottest Cars too). Loads of money in Ice-Cream apparently!

I'd love to see him in an F1 car one of these days. He might actually acheive proper world fame then...

FBD.

[Brian_Ewen]

Martin
I once had a night oot in Bathgate .

Late 70's .

Am I right in remembering that the nightclubs name was Ceasers Place ? .  

[Marty Bonnar]

Brian,
thanks a gazillion for unearthing so many teenage memories!! Our paths may well have crossed in the 70s!

It was only 'Caesar's', as I recall. But you'd only ever find me in there after rockin' out at 'The Dreadnought'. SERIOUS Snakebite-fuelled Head-Banging!!! Thank the heavens for Punk!

Ah, Happy Days...

I've actually just come back from Dundee, where La Nancy was celebrating with a colleague who's packed in work and off on a World Tour (he doesn't golf, poor lad). They were in a pub directly across the road from the old alma mater. 30 years in ein augenblick. Scary...

 
FBD.

[David Stamm]

Cheers to Dario and winning the the most prestigous open wheel left hand only turning talent deluted racing series.  


Sorry Martin, I'm just being a smart ass.

[Marty Bonnar]

Cheers to Dario and winning the the most prestigous open wheel left hand only turning talent deluted racing series.  


Sorry Martin, I'm just being a smart ass.

David,couldn't agree more, hence my BARELY(!)-veiled ref to F1.....

F1BD...