Outlook


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GHHXa AN AMAZING TELEPHONE CALL


IT WAS a warm October afternoon in Hollister, Cali­ fornia when the Earth began to shake. When the shaking continued and intensified, I grabbed my three-year-old son Colin and ran to centre of the front lawn to ride out the quake.


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ing seconds as the nouse bucked and shook to what would later become known as the Loma Prieta earth­ quake. The ground shook with such force I fully expected the house to top­ ple and my truck to flip on its side. When the rolling finally


We watched for 15 gruell­


Outlook reader JIM PARKER, of Califor­ nia, relates a surprising tale


when the quake struck. After checking to see that everyone was okay the man­ ager let employees go home. As she drove the 12 miles from Gilroy to Hollister radio reports were listing Hollister as the eipicentre of the quake. This only height­ ened her anxiety. When she drove up to our


kdays as the lines became 'overloaded immediately. I tried calling my wife at


stopped I checked inside the house. The clock was frozen at 5:04 p.m., a great deal of our personal belongings were strewn across the floor, but there was no major damage. I called my father in nearby Salinas. He was very shaken but unin­ jured by the quake. It would be the last phone call I would make for several


work but the phone was dead. As it happened she had just walked into her office


house and saw her son safe on the front lawn she burst into tears. He in turn did exactly the same. The rest of the evening


about 2:30 a.m. the phone rang startling me from my sleep. I answered with a sleepy hello and heard the caller respond on the other end of the line, “Oh thank heaven you’re alive.” The voice was unmista-


amazing was that the Jack­ son’s had seen the news­ reels on the BBC that actually showed scenes from Hollister. This is tanta­ mount to CBS doing a fea- t u r e s t o r y f r om Oswaldtwistle.


was spent outside. Fear of aftershocks and the need to cook outdoors lent almost a carnival atmosphere to the scene. We listened to the non­


stop news accounts on the radio until nearly midnight. We knew of the damage in the Marina Districtin San Francisco. We had heard of the freeway collapse in Oak­ land. We did not know the extent of the damage in our own town. I t was very dark and


quiet when we finally go to bed. A couple of hours later,


keable. It belonged to my old friend Ray Jackson of Burnley, Lancashire. The conversation was short. I assured Ray and his lovely wife Eunice that we were fine. I told them I would call when I found out about the rest of the family. Imagine that. I couldn’t


when I was stationed in Britain with the US Air Force. We became fast friends and I visited Burn­ ley many times while 1 was stationed there. I have returned to Lancashire twice since then and have some dear friends also there in Burnley, Tom and Jen­ nifer Bruce and their daugh­ ter, Laura.


I first met the Jacksons


call out. My neighbours couldn’t call in. I couldn’t even reach across the street, but a call made it through from half way around the world. That is one I would chalk up to the mystery of friendship. The one call that needed to make it through to ease some worried minds on both sides of the Atlantic made it through the maze of inter­ national phone traffic and across the U.S. What I also found to be


here again, or if another storm hits your island we at least have the comfort in knowing that someone, half a world away is concerned.□


always one Yank in Hollis­ ter who perks up when the news turns to England. We worried over the recent severe winter storms, call­ ing to check on the central heating at the Jackson home. The world is getting smaller, and hopefully peo­ ple are g e t t in g closer together. So, if the earth shakes out


Suffice to say there is So w h a t’s in a rally?


SO what’s in a rally? Get the car out of the garage, off to an event, give it a good thrashing, then back to the pub for a few beers? Not quite! There’s no rea­


son why someone shouldn’t adopt a relaxed approach, entering events purely for fun. But just complying with the safety require­ ments of the sport’s gov­ erning body, the RAMASA, means that a certain amount of effort is required simply to get the car into an event. A rally really starts about


GEOFF BROWN, Press Officer for Pen- dle District Motor Club, provides the answer


format varies little between events, but there can be some very im p o r tan t changes so it is vital to study them fully. Scrutineering, documen­


two months prior to the event, when the organising club publishes its regula­ tions, or regs. Their basic


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contesting is very popular so that entries have to be made promptly, which means an outlay of £150 a month before the event, though this can be retrieved should you have to cancel. The most important ele­ ment is the car. . . will it


tation, service arrange­ ments, lateness penalties, elibigibilty, all need to be checked to avoid at the least embarassment, at the worst, exclusion. The championship I am


t is a constant occupation and 'there is always something to do,whether it be checking or replacing existing compo­ nents, or modifying some­ thing in the hope of gaining an improvement in perfor­ mance. Whereas an everyday


comply with the RAC scru­ tineers’ requirements and, once in the event, will it stay the distance - or will mechancial failure mean an early bath? For me, car preparation


months or 6,000 to 12,000 miles, a rally car needs a full service after every event in the interests of


“shopping” car requires attention every six to 12


rallies take place on air­ fields, race circuits, etc, and invariably run as a complete entity in one day, whereas the bigger, multi-venue events frequently have their scrutineering and the like the day before.


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event, the final instructions arrive and like the regs these must be studied as they include corrections and amendments as well as loca­ tion details for the pre-e­ vent formalities. Also included is an entry list, giving an opportunity to study the opposition. Single venue or multi-use


aspect of my car’s construc­ tion th a t h a sn ’t been changed over the years, and although it still looks the same as it did in our first year, 1987, the axle, gear­ box,suspension, you name it, we've changed it and it now seems to be paying off. The week before an


safety and reliabilty. T h e re ’s probably no


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