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By Nate Risch
01/07/2018
Roundel magazine has carried some intriguing stories involving vintage racing, and later this year any Oktoberfest attendees will have the opportunity to attend the Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix.
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By Nate Risch
01/07/2018
Satch wrote a piece in last week’s Roundel Weekly that gave me a good-natured wedgie for living in the snowy Northeast and having to put my toys away for the winter, while he lives the life of Riley in SoSoCal.
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By Nate Risch
01/01/2018
The last rose of 2017 is clinging to the stem, a ghost of the blossom that opened a week ago. It’s a rose named Louise Hay, and I love its cheerful apricot brilliance. But it is winter here, too—so I pull on a sweater as I fire up the roadster for a quick last-of-the-year dash.
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By Nate Risch
01/01/2018
So, 2017 has left the building. For me, it was a year of substantial personal and professional upheaval. It was the first year since 1981 that I was not someone’s full-time employee. That doesn’t mean I was unemployed or idle; I became, in many ways, busier than I’d ever been.
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By Nate Risch
12/25/2017
On rare occasions, I get the call to be a professional driver on a closed course—the disclaimer that scrolls across the bottom of nearly every car commercial ever made. It’s odd, because I do not make my living as a professional driver; nevertheless, when the call comes, I approach the job like a stone-cold professional.