[OT] What ever happend to Chris Taylor?

[Brett Van Sprewenburg <brett@netacc.net>]

Picked this up off the A2-GTI 16v list...there are probably only a
handful of us here that will remember Chris (and his fat mouth,
black 16v Scirocco wanna be G60 and then a Corrado G60 turned VR6 at
EIP of all places) and you know who you are.

But hey, this is real life for ya.

==Brett



>X-From_: owner-a2_16v@connecticom.com  Mon May 29 20:37:20 2000
>Delivered-To: <a2_16v@connecticom.com>
>Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 20:36:29 -0400
>From: Ben Randolph <bxr140@psu.edu>
>X-Accept-Language: en
>To: 16v <a2_16v@connecticom.com>
>Subject: My wonderful holiday weekend....
>Sender: owner-a2_16v@connecticom.com
>
>hey guys, just got back from my long weekend.  it was supposed to be a
>three day jaunt, but unfortuntaely turned into a 5 day nightmare....
>
>last wednesday morning, one of my best friends, Chris Taylor, was killed
>while riding to work on his motorcycle.  he was behind a tractor trailer
>at an intersection, and followed the truck through the intersection when
>the light turned green.  a lady in a station wagon was making a left
>hand turn coming from the other direction and "didnt see him".
>
>she hit him.
>and that was it.
>he was 22.
>
>before getting into bikes (he had two gsxr 750's) he was a die hard VW
>guy, owning 5 of them in his short time as a liscensed driver.  many of
>you on this list may not recognize his name, but he was part of the
>corrado list for quite a while, and im sure alot of those guys remember
>him as the arrogant and beligerent kid that for some reason, you just
>had to like.  perhaps someone that reads the c-list can forward it over
>there.  im fairly certain he was a contributor on a [the?] gsxr list, so
>to someone in the know, if it hasnt already been annonced, it would 
>be appreciated.
>
>he only started riding a year or two ago, but became instantly hooked.
>on mothers day weekend of this year, he went to a riding school at
>summit point with a buddy and received his racing liscense.  he was so
>proud of all the things he larned that weekend, and was so excited that
>he could take his addiction off the street and on to the safety of a
>racetrack.  he and his buddy set up a website after that weekend.  check
>it out.
>
>http://www.NGAF-Racing.com/
>
>its ironic that from all the "near death" and "triple digits" stories i
>heard, he was killed going less than probably 20mph.  i know for a fact
>that brice and one other guy on this list (sorry i forget your name, but
>i know you have a gsxr) are bike guys, and to them and anyone else who
>might ride, please be safe.  i know you probably hear it a million
>times, but please watch out for idiot drivers.  it *does* happen.
>
>thanks for the bandwidth.
>ben randolph
>
>ps.  i know i owe a couple of you guys emails...ive got alot of work to
>catch up on, but ill get them out eventually.  :-)
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