Are you referring to Doc Humphries? If that is the one, I have one of his racks that he used to sell. If we are talking about the same guy, his wife passed in a spyder accident with a deer. I asked Lamont about him about 3 years ago when he came to the rally in Maggie Valley.
No, this is a different 'Doc'. Doc Humphries came along later. I'm sorry, I cannot remember Doc's last name. He was a specialized surgeon in Florida, if I remember correctly. I haven't heard from him in years. But he and Forrest used to be big celebrities in the Spyder community in those early years.
There are several great stories about Doc and Forrest. But I'll give you this one. It happened during an early SpyderFest in Springfield Missouri sponsored by Len at Pitbull Powersports. The year before we had it in Cuba Missouri at Len's dad's Can-Am dealership. There was a dead end frontage road that ran along side the freeway in front of the dealership. A group of riders set up an impromptu drag strip and started running pairs in competition.
It went on for some time but when the police showed up they had to stop. The next year, Len rented an actual drag strip for the event and we were running laps as fast as the operators could cycle us through. About mid evening, a guy shows up in a Camaro expecting a normal night and wanted to run. When they told him that the track was reserved for Spyders only, he was really bummed. But Len said he could run and they placed him in the que.
At the time, Doc had put a lot of time and money into building his RS twin 998 Spyder. He'd pumped it up to over 1,100 cc's and added a turbo charger. I don't remember what HP it was making, but it was substantially more than the stock Spyder. The guy in the Camaro was watching the times that the stock Spyders were running and probably figured he'd do very well on his run. But Len pared him up with Doc.
Talk about a sleeper! It did sound quite a bit different. Especially at full throttle. And if you knew enough about a Spyder, you could see that it was modified as the turbo stuck out on one side. But to the casual observer, it was not all that noticable.
Doc is a small guy. I'd say 5'6" and maybe 140 lbs. And he's CRAZY!
So, they stage at the Christmas tree light array and you can imagine how everyone wanted to see this run. It was hard to tell how much Doc beat him by, but it was pretty bad. The guy in the Camaro didn't even stop to pick up his run stat printout. He just kept driving right out of the track. No wave, no smile, just gone. We actually felt badly for him. If he'd have stayed, we'd have told him how he'd been snookered. It might have eased the pain a little.
