Automobile Magazine and Bosch Sponsor Cancer Charity Slot Car Challenge
20 April 1998
Automobile Magazine and Bosch Sponsor Charity Slot Car Challenge on April 22 at Tourneau TimeMachine Atrium to Benefit the Hole In The Wall Gang Camp For Children With Cancer and Life Threatening Blood Diseases
NEW YORK, April 17 -- Automobile Magazine, a PRIMEDIA
consumer publication, and Bosch, will sponsor a slot car race for charity,
featuring CART racing luminaries Bobby Rahal, Bryan Herta, Carl Haas,
Christian Fittipaldi, Alex Zanardi and Chip Ganassi. Legendary race car
announcer Chris Economaki will act as announcer at the Wednesday, April 22
event, to take place at the atrium at Tourneau TimeMachine at 57th and
Madison, New York City. The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp will receive all
proceeds of the evening's event. Admission is $25, with $5 raffle tickets and
$50 lottery tickets for a chance to "drive" with the racers, and can be paid
at the door. (Tourneau TimeMachine's main entrance on 57th at Madison.) Time
of event: 6:30 p.m. for lottery entrants, 7:00 p.m. for general admission.
Automobile Magazine Editors David E. Davis, Jr., Jean Jennings and Mark
Gillies will act as emcees. The magazine will also present Alex Zanardi their
Man of the Year Award. The event will consist of qualifying laps in which
attendees can participate by buying a lottery ticket and having their names
drawn, raffle prizes, a live auction, the main-event race, and will end with
an awards ceremony. Cocktails and hors d'oeuvres will be served. Five to six
hundred attendees are expected.
David E. Davis, Jr. stated: "We like to say that Automobile Magazine
drives interesting cars to interesting places, and talks to interesting people
when it gets there. That will never be more true than on April 22, in the
Tourneau TimeMachine."
Ben Bendixen, president of Robert Bosch Corporation, Sales Group, says:
"Bosch has had a long standing involvement in racing since the advent of
motorsports. Though this is in a somewhat different vain, we are just as
pleased to be a sponsor of this race as any held on bigger tracks, perhaps
more so, because of the benefit it will bring to the children."
Allan Wilson, Director of Development for the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp
stated: "The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp is honored to have been selected as
the beneficiary of this wonderful event. The funds raised at the Slot Car
Challenge will help provide a fun-filled camping experience for hundreds of
seriously ill children, all of whom attend free of charge. We are deeply
grateful to Automobile Magazine, Bosch, and all other sponsors for thinking of
the camp and the families we serve."
Automobile Magazine, the most contemporary car magazine, is a PRIMEDIA
consumer publication. Other PRIMEDIA titles include Seventeen, New York,
Modern Bride and Chicago Magazines.
Robert Bosch Corporation, the wholly owned U.S. subsidiary of Robert Bosch
GmbH, manufactures and markets high quality precision original equipment
components/systems for passenger cars and commercial vehicles; automotive
aftermarket parts and accessories; workshop/test equipment, car audio systems;
packaging machinery; industrial automation components and systems/metal
deburring, finishing and aqueous washing systems/industrial electronic
controls; hydraulic and pneumatic components and systems; as well as household
appliances.
Tourneau is the pre-eminent retailer of watches and vintage timepieces in
the United States, with four locations in New York City and five other
locations in prominent shopping districts across America.
SOURCE Automobile Magazine
