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Rick D 05-29-2013 07:49 PM

Looks great, sucks about getting beat by a Neon! :poke:

Tom Fuehrer 05-31-2013 08:26 AM

Eric, I'm pretty sure it was a Honda Civic that beat you at the AX. Do you feel any better now?

MaxHarvard 05-31-2013 10:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Tom Fuehrer (Post 483586)
Eric, I'm pretty sure it was a Honda Civic that beat you at the AX. Do you feel any better now?

.... I know where you live. Just saying. :knokwood:

WicKeD_SS 06-21-2013 05:36 PM

Very nice write up on your car in the new Camaro Per Mag! Congrats!

Ron in SoCal 06-22-2013 10:48 AM

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Originally Posted by WicKeD_SS (Post 488398)
Very nice write up on your car in the new Camaro Per Mag! Congrats!

Yep, love the car and the artiice! Must of been fun writing about your own car :bump:

MaxHarvard 07-07-2013 07:23 AM

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Originally Posted by WicKeD_SS (Post 488398)
Very nice write up on your car in the new Camaro Per Mag! Congrats!

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Originally Posted by Ron in SoCal (Post 488589)
Yep, love the car and the artiice! Must of been fun writing about your own car :bump:


Thanks! It's a bit weird to write about yourself, I'll be honest.


Ok, well to give you all an update. I have been extremely busy with the car lately so here goes.

I shot my car a while back in October for Camaro Perfomers and it finally came out! yay!

Check out the July Issue of CP!

http://www.impermanence.kungphu.com/...27604502_o.jpg

So if that's not awesome enough, we went racing....


I went with the moto: "No Regrets" and boy did that ever show. I posted a personal best time of 1:54 at the shortened road course at Road America and left pretty much all I could out on the track and even some paint. That time got me 21st out of 71 entrants. Considering the level of competition, I'm quite happy with my time and where I fell. Last year I ended up in the middle of the pack and this year I vowed to be well over the top %50 and that's exactly what happened. I pushed hard and really took the car much further than it had gone up until this point. Regardless, I did have a little boo-boo.

You can see it here. Skip to 3:30 if you want to see the "OOPS".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYmKLaF3aSU

You can tell my apexes are pretty weak and had a hard time with take off out of the corners, so a lot can still be done suspension and driver-skill wise. Car was lightly damaged, nothing to worry about. Driver was fine. Car even went back out for more laps later.

Here's video of 3 laps of the short course. The red Mustang had a 15 second head start and the one I pass near the end had easily a 45 second lead before I passed him. Such a rush to PASS a car! MAN!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvUfQSB8Jj4

Image of damage: Nothing major.

http://www.impermanence.kungphu.com/...54017131_n.jpg

The go-karts this year were JAM PACKED! Holy cow we had a ton of drivers. The team of me, brian finch, Mike Norris and the BFG guy AJ finished 4th out of the 13 (i think, maybe 15) teams. Which, frankly wasn't all that bad all things considered.

http://www.impermanence.kungphu.com/...24172005_n.jpg


We had lots of fun and will certainly do it again, this time I will go sub 1:50 as my goal, we shall see after I tweak the nut behind the wheel.

Here's some obligatory shots from over the weekend.

Bill Goldberg in a wig.
http://www.impermanence.kungphu.com/...23748314_n.jpg

Me and the girlfriend trying to get Mary Pozzi to pretend to be me and drive my car at the event. ( I would have paid her, I swear).

http://www.impermanence.kungphu.com/...77644785_n.jpg

Jim trying to help another fellow racer and camaro guy after his engine had some problems.

http://www.impermanence.kungphu.com/...10581210_n.jpg


Me and the little lady
http://www.impermanence.kungphu.com/...35907831_n.jpg

And finally, for now anyways (have 800 or more shots) an image my GF took. So rare to actually see a picture of me driving since I'm always behind the camera.
http://www.impermanence.kungphu.com/...21449527_n.jpg

tubbed69 07-07-2013 08:44 AM

Super cool car,nice to see it in Camaro Performers.

glassman 07-07-2013 09:35 AM

And very nice to see you drive it like its meant, and the patina is earned!!

Will it be hard to match the paint on such a repair?

chr2002ca 07-07-2013 11:02 AM

Just saw your spread in Camaro Performers. Have always loved your ride and reading your build thread. Congrats on the press and more great recognition and coverage by CP. That racing pic looks sick also. Great job. :thumbsup:

WSSix 07-07-2013 06:47 PM

I like the action shot. Your girlfriend did a great job with that one. Congrats on doing better this year than last too.


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