Your webmaster's lifelong friend has moved on from his career designing and flying ultralight aircraft to enter the alternative-fueled automotive realm.  Jack and  Sharon Westcott won "the first 'Escape from Berkeley' race, a kind of mini-Cannonball Run to Las Vegas for drivers of vehicles that run on anything but petroleum."
 

From the "San Francisco Chronicle"  10-17-08:   "Jack McCornack and Sharon Westcott of Cave Junction, Ore., back their canola-powered car to the starting point in Berkeley."    The "New York Times" covers the event!