VESCO WAS THE MAN

Dear CR Don Vesco was a very special man, and a friend to racers of all types. My school friend Ken Greene was Reg Pridmore’s long-time sidecar passenger, pictured recently in CR. Ken and I delivered the chair to Don’s shop back in the day, only to find out Don was at another location. We dropped off the chair, drove to a large warehouse where we found Don, door wide open, working on his streamliner. Ken and I started asking questions about his adventures on the salt. It was as if Don had all the time in the world to talk to us, explaining in detail what we were looking at and what 300mph on a motorcycle was like. There was a time as the streamliner accelerated between 160 and 225 when the steering worked backwards, but not a big issue! What a man. Kevin Burke Eugene, Oregon