Lorna Fitts Lyons began life thinking she wanted
to be a teacher, and teach she did. After graduating from SUNY Cortland
with a BA in Secondary English, she taught for two years in the upstate
NY town of Auburn.
But the racing bug bit and off she went in 1974
to work for IMSA in Fairfield, Connecticut. Those were the days when
IMSA was laid back and fun. The early days.
In 1976 she moved to California to work for
Executive Motorhomes running their Executive Motorhome Challenge, a
racing stock warm-up to IMSA's Camel GT Challenge.
In 1978 she moved to the editor's job at Sports
Car magazine in Santa Ana, CA, where Paul Oxman served as the
magazine's publisher and ran his famous poster and calendar business.
As an off-shoot of that business, a new magazine was born, Import
Automotive Parts and Accessories. Lorna became the managing editor and
hired an editor for the new publication, Pete Lyons. Later, they would
marry, and to this day Pete says Lorna is still his boss.
In their nearly twenty-five years of married
life, Lorna has owned a typesetting business and has taught Desktop
Publishing at the local high school. Today her nearly full-time job is
support for Pete's motorsports journalism including being webmaster for
this site. She also edits the Motor Press Guild’s Web site and
their annual Membership Roster and Mediia Guide.
Lorna and Pete live in a picturesque mountain
community in Southern California with their minor menagerie of one dog
and two cats. Their German Shepherd Dog Tessa remains in their thoughts
daily.
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