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8 Jun 2006, 16:11 (Ref:1630061) | #1 | ||
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Where's Walter Lechner
I'm going to post this again in the hopes that more eye's may see it...
I would very much like to get in contact with Mr. Walter Lechner, who won the very last European Formula Super Vee championship in 1982. I own a Ralt RT5 FSV that belonged to him way back in 1980, and would love to get more history from him about what he did in the car, who he sold the car to that it would wind up here in the USA, and ultimatly in my hands. I've tried to contact Walter via email thru his racing school's website with no luck...I'd telephone the school, but I'm afraid that the time difference between California and Austria might be too much, plus I'd probably get someone who doesn't speak English, as I don't know how to speak Austrian! Any suggestions? Thanks!!! Michael Edick www.mteengineering.com |
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8 Jun 2006, 20:25 (Ref:1630191) | #2 | ||
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Michael
The chances of finding someone in Austria who doesn't speak English are negligible in my experience. About as rare as - I'm embarrassed to admit - finding someone in England who does speak German. As their website is in both German and English and invites English readers to phone them, I think you can be quite confident. Allen |
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8 Jun 2006, 20:51 (Ref:1630221) | #3 | ||
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Mind you, learning the phrase "Guten Tag - sprechen sie Englisch bitte?" would be courteous, if nothing else
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8 Jun 2006, 21:20 (Ref:1630233) | #4 | ||
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Michael,
Try www.lechner-racing.com and you can find Mr. Walter Lecher and his sons. Regards, Henk A. Hazelaar The Netherlands |
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9 Jun 2006, 15:30 (Ref:1630680) | #5 | ||
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Thank you all!
I'll give him another shout via email...maybe it'll get thru to him this time...if not, I'll try the direct (telephone) method. BTW, have you checked out the "Fotogalerie" on their website? Some very nice looking eye candy... Will keep you posted as to my progress!! |
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10 Jun 2006, 10:53 (Ref:1631084) | #6 | ||
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Recently I tried to order a rear wing spoiler from my car from the US and man I was really struggling understanding the girl and she me even after 20 minutes she got the us delivery address hopelessly wrong and we are meant to speak the same lingo!
Controvesly I sometimes have to order stuff for my business from continental Europe and I can confirm especially in Germany the girls on the phone speak impeccable english and were way easy to understand than my American operator! I do agree start with the 'sprechen sie English bitte' phrase though. |
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14 Jun 2006, 22:27 (Ref:1634706) | #7 | ||
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His son Robert definately speaks good english as did most of their team when they were in FF in 96 over here. Very generous with the Jim Beam provided by their sponsors as I recall too!
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19 Jun 2006, 15:32 (Ref:1637260) | #8 | ||
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Great news!
Walter has replyed to my emails, and we are trying to detail out my cars history as it relates to Walter, altho it's been well over 20 years, and some memories are hard to come by! He is going to try and dig up some old photo's of the car "from back in the day", and has even invited me out to Indy with a couple of tickets as his team runs the Porsche Super Cup! |
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20 Jun 2006, 08:53 (Ref:1637536) | #9 | ||
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Great result, Michael. Please let us know what you learn!
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While you are there, ask him about our Kiwi comrade, the late Ashley Stichbury. Walter wrote a heartfelt tribute to Ashley at the time of his passing that shall stay with me forever. When Walter regards you highly, you know that you have almost made it |
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