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garyshell
21st April 2008, 21:35
I received an email Sunday night from Bonnie Castoro, Paul "Speedbump" Castoro's mother. It was very touching and I asked her permission to share it with the rest of you.



Gary

Today I am watching the race from Long Beach. Their are so many new
names and very few old timers that I recognized...Tracy &Vasser.
I guess there has been many changes for the teams and I hope it
all works out. I wish Paul could have been here as Long Beach was
his favorite.

I want to tell you how grateful I am for you and Polly in gathering up all
the condolences and making them into booklet form. I look at it all the
the time and show it off to everybody. I hope you will continue to do
this when other forum members pass away. It truly is a treasure.

I am doing well and trying to stay busy. I have two grandsons,
who will be graduating this June. One from UC Berkeley (CAL)
and one from high school. Where does the time go?

I Hope Paul and his Dad got to watch Long Beach Grand Prix from
their lofty heights.

Bonnie


As some of you may remember when Paul passed away, I assembled all the messages of condolence from this forum and added some pictures to it that Polly provided. I then printed it out and mailed it to Paul's mom. It's nice to see that our thoughts still touch her life. She and all the rest of us sure miss Speedbump. RIP buddy.

Gary

CCFan
21st April 2008, 21:44
Very thoughtful of you, Gary.

Thanks for sharing.

garyshell
21st April 2008, 21:51
Very thoughtful of you, Gary.

Thanks for sharing.


Thanks, but this wasn't about me. It was about the outpouring of condolences from ALL OF US when Speedbump died back in Sept. 2006. We got a nice note from her when the package first arrived back then. I was just so surprised to hear from Bonnie again after all this time and wanted to share it with everyone else.

Gary

Champcar4life
22nd April 2008, 00:33
I didn't even know he was go, he always had something to say, even if I didn't agree, he was never rude, always respectful.

neophyte
23rd April 2008, 05:18
Godspeed Bump!!

Tks for sharing Gary

pits4me
23rd April 2008, 17:18
I spoke with Gary yesterday. Does anyone have a link or copy of the Speedbump RIP sticker they ran on the car in his memory? I believe it was on AR1 back then.

garyshell
23rd April 2008, 17:30
I found a copy of the picture!!!

Gary

indycool
1st May 2008, 16:49
Good thought to do that, Gary......you can tell from the email it was most appreciated.......RIP Speedbump....