ISOA Boomer Award
Hall of Shame

Updated January 27, 1999

January - no award, meeting cancelled due to blizzard.

January - Joe Pawlak - for running out of gas and having a dead battery on his tractor when attempting to use it to retrieve his Stag, then making Tim Buja late for his first meeting as President of ISOA

February - Mark and Lorrie-Ann Fisher - for dropping their Spitfire engine onto the concrete garage floor.

March - Jack Billimack - for putting the brake line and A-arm on the wrong side during his TR6 front end rebuild.

April - Mike Mueller - for just being dumb(!) - accidently pouring raw gasoline onto a hot exhaust manifold, then getting excited when the gas started to smoke, hitting his head on the TR6 body and then breaking two teeth.

May - Jake Jaquet - for putting the TR6 hood brackets on backwards and wondering why the holes didn't line up while Ann and Donna were trying to hold the hood in place, then correctly installing the brackets and hood and finding that the hood was stuck closed, then installing his distributor 180 degrees out.

June - Jeff Rust - for striking his transmission output shaft with a hammer, mangling it beyond repair.

July - Phil Riviera - for getting hopelessly lost while trying to find Jake Jaquet's house. This wouldn't be so bad if Phil wasn't a Cook County Sheriff's deputy!

August - Sandy Hurst - during the VTR Convention in Hudson, WI - for running over somebody else's TR3 side curtains during the autocross, then opening the blinds in their poolside room and exposing everyone in the pool to Jerry in his BVDs.

September - no award - ISOA Picnic at the Jaquets

October - Phil Fox - for not removing his old oil filter gasket before installing a new oil filter, resulting in 5-1/2 quarts of oil on the garage floor.

November - Greg Hetzel - for driving his MGB without any tools on our first annual fall camping tour, then breaking down with a blown clutch slave cylinder.

December - Kurt Schneider - for learning the hard way where not to place a jack on a Triumph