About “Pete’s Notebook”
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Welcome aboard my new cyber-racer! I have no idea how to drive this turbonitrocharged Magnum BlogSpeeder thing, so you might want to strap in and hang on. Tight.
But you needn’t shut up. I’m going to welcome all the helpful advice I can get. Don’t worry about hurting my feelings, I’m inured to harsh criticism — shucks, I’ve driven Hurley Haywood around a race track and survived. (My story about that is posted in the category named Published Words; see “Driving Mr. Haywood.”)
And pictures. I’m going to be posting pictures. Pictures are what we’re about here at petelyons©com
“Pete’s Notebook” is a companion to our main website. A picture may be worth a thousand words, but sometimes an actual word or two can help us appreciate what we’re seeing. We might talk about the background of the picture’s subject, say, or the story of where and why the picture was made.
Perhaps a photo will spark a discussion about photography itself. I enjoy the process of making pictures as much as I do crafting words. In fact, I was shooting race cars before I started writing about them.
Also, these words-pages give us a place to expand on explanations about the products we offer: the various sizes of photo prints and their prices, our “Can-Am Thunder” DVD (produced by Duke Video) and our very limited supply of the 2010 Road & Track “Vintage Memories” calendar featuring 14 Lyons photos.
We also can talk up new items as they become available (thanks for the idea, Brit Gordon!).
“Pete’s Notebook” is, and no doubt will remain, a work-in-progress. As we make our way around the Internet raceway, you may notice the occasional wheel being put wrong or gearchange missed. Go ahead and shout at me, Hurley did. As on that occasion, I’ll try to learn fast.
Ok, gear in, revs up, take a deep breath…
Contents and concept copyright © 2009 by Pete Lyons
Pete,
Well, you are certainly quite a few words ahead of me with this blog thingy. Maybe one day I’ll get up to speed on all this but first I’ll reapply the Ben Gay, take a few more Advils, and keep trying to figure out how to get those search engines to ‘find’ my website!
Congrats on navigating your way through the ‘blog’!
Andy
Hi Andy –
Thanks for the kind word, but I fear I don’t deserve it, not yet, anyway. I’m less “up to speed” in your phrase than I am blundering along, misfiring, tires cold, windscreen clouded with clag… But at least there hasn’t been a crunching sound yet!
– Pete
Hi Pete,
Just got the newsletter regarding the new book. Congrats! Looks pretty. Will probably buy. Your calendar has been hanging over my monitor since the beginning of the year. Every day this month, I’ve been looking up at Mark and David’s beat up warrior. I vividly remember reading about that race as a boy and seeing that picture and description takes me back without fail.
However, in July, we return to my fav — the Can Am bruisers.
Thanks for all the photos and words.
Cheers,
Michael
Michael, you’re not supposed to page ahead in the calendar! Seriously, thank you for expressing the same enthusiasm I feel for those wonderful times. — Pete
I just happened to come across the work you do Mr. Lyons and I am impressed. I was a teenager when Can-AM was in it’s prime and was able to see a couple of races at Road America. My older brother and I were die hard model builders and that grew into slot cars. Many weeks worth of allowances went into our habit.
I was able to get a copy of ‘Can-AM Photo History’ and that will be my brother’s Christmas gift. Thanks for keeping the faith alive and bringing back some wonderful memories. One of these days I will make it to Texas and go to the Chaparral museum but in the meantime I can look at your photographs. I may have to break down and get one of the DVDs.
Thanks again and keep up the good work,
Steve
Thanks for the kind word. — Pete