40 Years

[CanaMatt]

I don’t know about you guys but I am really enjoying the 40 years series that is being run right now. The last one really gave me a great insight as to where it all started and how easy it could have evaporated.
Judging by the timeline noted in the write up on John Cooper, apparently I started reading CC about the time Bruce first took over the helm. Making Bruce “My Editor” in the same way Roger Moore is “ My James Bond” and just like James Bond there appear to have been quite a few in the top spot before and since. All being commended and condemned with equal haste.
Back to my point for writing, if you are looking for a not so new idea for the magazine, how about running an article from these older issues. You can call it “40 years ago today”. Though that seems vaguely familiar somehow….
Well I must say. I like this new Daniel Craig fellow as James Bond. He’s got edge. The same could be said for the current editor at CC. You keep writing…I’ll keep reading.
Matt
Perth WA
(In this case the WA stands for Western Oz not Washington State)

[K-Man]

I have enjoyed reading the 40 year series because the only dudes who know more about what Colin Fraser knows are the racers he covered in his career from the sidelines...I was at Mosport in 67 at 11 years old when Jack Brabham won the only World Class Race that mattered...That day got me hooked and a four years later I hopped on my 1968 Suzuki S-32-air-cooled twin,and the cops have been chasing me ever since!I cut my teeth racing against Yvon Duhamel,Lang Hindle and Crazy Frank Mrazek,when Colin Fraser was a skinny snot-nosed punk.I knew Michelle Duff when she was still Mike Duff and I worked at Yamaha Motor Canada in the Deeley Days when Stevie Baker was our factory racer and Bob Work was the team manager.I worked for Ernie White as his last partsman and remember every second from Daytona,Indy,Mosport and Isle Notre Dam and I have over 40 years of racing on Polaroid and digital...So trot out your best shots from the past cuz I'm in the pics...unless I was in plaster!

[Malks]

Now there is a name I have not heard in a while. I met Ernie in the late '80s when I answered an ad to buy a bike. He was living in Brampton and had an '84 Yamaha FJ600 for sale.

When I showed up to view the bike I was surprised by the age of the seller. I asked what he was doing with a bike like that and he said "Riding It!" As we were doing the paperwork in his apartment I was completely in awe of the trophies and photos that lined the walls. I did not know of the man before I met him, but spent about an hour talking with him and looking at the history he had in motorcycling.