Fantastico! Magnifico! Eccezionale! (Help, I’ve run out of Italian adjectives!) The highlight of the recent 2008 Indy 500 Media Tour was a 150mph+ thrill ride around the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in a brand-new 2008 Chevrolet Corvette Pace Car driven by Italian driver Max Papis. As always, my camera and my recorder went along for the ride.   read more »

By Stuart Carter

My family moved to Indianapolis in 1971, and almost instantly we were enraptured by IMS and the Indy 500. As small kids, we dreamt of racing at the Speedway. Now, 36 years later, I had a chance to live a dream. As a 40th birthday present my big brother, Chuck, ran us through the Indy Racing Experience.   read more »

By Walter Zoomie

You may or may not remember when I said this a long time ago in the My Town Indy post.

“I love Indiana limestone. It is cool. My father and his father and his father and a bunch of former Zoomie fathers all were cutters down in southern Indiana.”

Well, I figured I’d show you some pictures I took way back in June of 2003 down in Bedford, Lawrence County, Indiana. Lawrence County was, and probably still is, considered the limestone capital of the world. Many famous buildings all over the U.S. were built with Indiana limestone… too many to list here now.   read more »

By Walter Zoomie

Here’s what I think.

It was Africa hot today. Africa hot is a term from the movie Biloxi Blues. That movie was good cinema.

I also think that I am an Effen genius maybe, sorta.   read more »

By Walter Zoomie

I will now describe for you my carb day.   read more »