August 6, 2012

The week of August 26, 1973 I was thinking of college and my pursuit of an associate degree in photography at MATC.  Before school would begin, I thought a nice break was in order.

Friends were camping at the Jaycee campground close to Elkhart Lake's Road America that weekend and invited me to come and bring a tent and any high powered stereo gear I had since they had an audio power competition I believe you would call it.  I owned a Phase Linear 400 watt power amplifier and that is the real reason I was invited!  My Phase Linear had been tweaked and could put out about 500 watts of power, 250 a channel and it rocked.  It produced very LOUD, clear sound and I believe we won the competition pairing it with my McIntosh C26 Pre amp and a friend's HUGE Klipshorn speakers!

This was also the time for the Can-Am at Elkhart Lake's Road America.  Seeing and hearing Mark Donahue in the "Monster" Porsche 917-30 was amazing.  That car was so beautiful and had so much power with Mark driving. No one had a chance unless it broke down, which it did not, and he won.  The black Shadow cars were also one of the other wonderful sights to see that weekend.

After that break I was ready for college!

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