I visited Siebkens - B.S.Levy's "Last Open Bar"

Visited Siebken's Bar in Elkhart Lake today....made me feel like I was "sitting in the poster", 'The Last Open Bar'....

What a GREAT town!

Jealous, who did you fantasise you were drinking with :)

Pick a driver...ANY driver.....

:)

Man....there IS such a thing as ghosts!

Also picked these up from a local artist....

Are you up for the ALS series?

Wish I was there. Great series and a great place to see it.

Eats lots of brats-corn on the cob.

We'll look for ya on tv tomorrow.

No...

I'm here with my rallye partner, aRick Verhey....we're rallyemasters for the Grand Lake Tour Mk XIV...an endurance challenge for British cars (1980 and older) and their owners....

The rallye participants took off for checkpoints in Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota this morning and are due back by 0930 Sunday morning.

We're based in Janesville, WI and decided to drive over to Elkhart Lake for the afternoon....lunch at Siebkens...then we went to the track, but got there about 1430...and they still wanted $45/head...so we passed.

Did get about 5 minutes of sweet engine sounds and brief glimpses of those sleak car shapes, though!

Sounds like a great time none the less.

Elkhart Lake is a great town on race weekends and probably at other times too. I used to go to the Champ Car race up there every year. I've had a few conversations with Dorsey Schroeder (when he was still driving in Trans Am) outside in the 'beer garden'. There are other bars up there that are just as much fun and easier to get into on a Saturday afternoon when everyone is trying to get a look at the pro drivers at Siebkens.......T

Siebkens was literally empty when we were there. The barkeep and waitstaff had time to talk with us.....I shot about a minute and a half of video of the walls and ceiling...

Also bought a couple of prints from a local artist....one of an MGTF, the other of a vintage race sceen of downtown during the early '50s races...she, like Burt, had wuite the peronality!

That's great Rick. My Dad and I were there last month for the vintage races. It was a GREAT time. Anyone on this board who's within 1,000 miles ought to make plans to go to the vintage races next summer. I know I'm going again.

I met Burt in person last year, he spotted the Huffaker MGB at the SVRA vintage races at Road Atlanta, he asked me was there any way he could dirive it for a story in Classic Motorsports Magazine, I told Tim Suddard had already beat him to it :)

I've never made it up to Elkhart yet, I hoping my future vintage racing will take me there for a race though.

I've known Burt since about 1992 or 1993. One of my buddies did the artwork for his "Potside Companion".

Your comment of him "begging to borrow a car" is certainly Burt, that's for sure!

:)

Burt seems like a real good guy, I got to talk to him a bit more this year at the Mitty up in the vending area, his was there doing a book signing and came over to look at Speedracer. I can tell Burt enjoys life to it's fullest.

Results Rick, results of the GLT!!!!!!!!!

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