Bob Palma told me a story about the time he and his brother snuck into the proving grounds and hid in a tree on the side of the track and watched an Avanti running laps. On one of those laps the car stopped, backed up and than stopped at the side of the track. The driver got out and walked up to the tree and told the boys to come down. Though they thought they were camouflaged by the tree their legs were dangling below the branches. After questioning them about what they were doing there he put them in the back seat of the Avanti and drove them to the front gate and told them to leave and never come back. They may have been the 1st two people to ride in the back seat of an Avanti.