Original Message

Ernie - Thanks for the decades of dedication to the sport and the decades of enjoyment and knowledge that I have had over that time reading your columns, listening to you on the mic at Grandview back in the 90's... I even sat in on a seminar that you offered in Daytona Beach during Speedweeks a long time ago.

I'm not sure how you first got involved in racing, and if you want, we'll wait for the book to find all that out, but I do remember visiting the late Dick Ivin's at his house (2002?), and he had a lot of pictures and clippings up on the walls of his garage, and one was of a very young Ernie Saxton with a camera in his hands.

Thanks also for always being supportive of our site.  Seems some print guys like to bitch and moan about the internet and I've watched how some lump us in there (guilt by association because we're on the web I guess) too since they never point out that there are a few signs of intelligent life out here after all!  You have always found a way to keep your column interested without throwing everything found on the web on the trash pile, and I notice, and I appreciate that.

You have made it easy for us to be supportive of your promotional efforts by providing your timely/professional press releases in a consistent manner... (not just when convenient as is a common mistake made by others who try to do what you have been doing all these years.)

...and finally, thanks for being a visitor to our site who has offered thoughts and comments over the years as a member of the media here, but also as a fan.... "one of the guys" that make up whatever it is that we do here.  I know I appreciate that, and I also know that the guys reading this do as well, and hope to do so for many more years.