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GWL
02-10-2021, 09:42 AM
Here is the beginning of an article about Karen and her FFR Daytona Coupe. Date: 2-10-2021

Karen Salvaggio Ed.D., 64, a health and wellness coach and retired school superintendent living in Hemet, Calif., on her Factory Five Daytona Coupe tribute, as told to A.J. Baime.

My entire life I have loved speed. When I was a kid, I would make road courses in the street using paint cans so I could ride my Huffy bike around it, trying to go faster and faster. I watched racing on ABC “Wide World of Sports” and I would say, “Someday I am going to do that!”

I joined the Air Force and became a B-52 mechanic, and through that I met a guy who ran stock cars in central California. He asked me to come to the track one day to help him and while I was there, he let me take the car out. I didn’t know what I was doing. All I knew was that I was in heaven. The very next Monday I bought my first race car, a stripped down 1970 Oldsmobile Cutlass 442 that came from a chicken ranch.

Here is a link to the article, I hope the entire article will come up for you: https://www.wsj.com/articles/this-factory-five-daytona-coupe-tribute-called-the-huntress-stalks-its-prey-on-the-racetrack-11612879345?mod=searchresults_pos1&page=1

Let me know if it does not, George

Papa
02-10-2021, 09:52 AM
Great story! Thanks for sharing.

Dave

Al_C
02-10-2021, 09:59 AM
Yay, Karen!

A.J. Baime's column is the first thing I turn to in Wednesdays' paper. What a great surprise to see one of our own written up! Great article and photos!