Slipstream - September 2001

Heard The West Calling Gimmick Rally
By Richard and Juanita Miller
They heard the call of the rally and they answered. Eighteen
teams arrived at the Heard Museum in McKinney to take part in
the Heard the West Calling rally. Seventeen teams made it to the
barbecue and beer at the finish. The team of Ken and Blake Perry
had to call it a day early due to co-driver illness.
Entrants were equally split between the Maverick Region of the
PCA and Texas region of the SCCA. Several teams actually belong
to both clubs but there was even one team that did not belong to any
organized club. I think they were Democrats. (For those of you who
may take offense at this, this joke was stolen from Will Rogers.)
The course wound through Collin County over to the shores
of Lake Lavon and then back inland to Garland. Scoring opportunities
were from street signs along the route. As the radio show
"What Do You Know" says, all questions were extensively
researched. The answers however, were not. Special thanks to Eric
Erz of the Porsche Club for putting his car out to serve as one
answer, while the Miller's also put their rally car out as another
answer. Juanita will take credit for the beautiful course, but
Richard gets the blame for the puns in the answers.
The winning team of Rocky Johnson and Ed Clifford scored
109 points out of a possible 112. Second, third and fourth places
were all tied at 107 points each. Terri Cummings and Andy
Anderson took the second place trophy home on the basis of the
first tie breaker in that they remembered that Bessie Heard lived
to the ripe old age of 101. Charlie and Teri Davis got the third
place trophy by running clean (without error) longer than
Shannon and Marsha DeWolfe who ended up in fourth.
Teams entered from Fort Worth and Weatherford to the west
and from Jacksonville in east Texas. There were entrants from
McKinney where the rally started and from Garland where the
rally ended. But the long distance award has to go to Kevin
McNamara who lists his address as Boston, Massachusetts.
Special thanks to the staff of the Heard Museum who put up
with us and provided the questionnaire that counted for 19 possible
points. Of course, the questionnaire was aimed at 4th grade
and up which did put it slightly beyond the intellectual level of
most of us sports car nuts.
Richard Miller and Carrye Lethgo waiting on the start.
Peter Outarsingh, IT racer with his other weekend ride.
1965 Mini of Grover Maurer.
Note this car has a full roll cage and has been raced in Vintage.
Teri and Charlie Davis, (front row), 3rd place with
Rocky Johnson and Ed Clifford (all PCA members) 1st place.
Rally cars resting in front of Spring Creek Barbecue
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