In February of 1977, I drove my orange Fiat 124 Spider 1,224 miles from Surrey, British Columbia, to Willow Springs, California. Top down the whole way. I was going from where I lived to home (you'll see how this works in a minute).
From the time I began to dream of being a professional race driver as a five-year-old boy, I hoped that I'd have the abilit…
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