Bob Reed passing?

[Jim Cimarolli]

Originally Posted by Richard McConnell

Very sorry to hear of Mr Reed's passing.

I met Mr Reed at my first national event in the early 90's. I was waiting at the scales after a time trial when this gentleman walks up to my car yelling, "That ole Buick is running out of fuel at the top end!" I was a newbie and clearly in over my head. Never had raced any kind of car until I got my Buick. He repeated himself and wanted to know why I couldn't hear/feel the car nosing over? Told him I was brand new to the sport and while I had the desire and passion to drive the car, I lacked the knowledge, skill and ability to race it! He had quite a laugh at my expense. He was gracious enough to explain on my car what was wrong and then invited me over to his car to see a correct fuel delivery system. That's when he introduced himself. While I was new to the sport as a competitor, I certainly knew who Mr Reed was and couldn't believe he would take the time to help me out! Considering how poorly I was doing it would have been just as easy not to say anything to the newest duck in the big pond.

The next race I saw him at he came over and looked under the hood before saying anything to see if I took his advice. Which I had done. It wasn't the last time Bob helped me out.

Dick McConnell

Thats a nice story, as I said in an earlier post, Bob was nice to me too when I was just getting started, couldn't even run the index, and he spoke to me like I was somebody. I never forgot it. He was an old school great guy and he will be remembered and missed by many.