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Yeah - Watching sucks - unless you're direct support for someone...

Every time I think of Jason - I remember going to rescue his Buick from somewhere in the boonies - dragging it to my place and pulling the motor. Pretty cool to see an LS powered Buick! Anyway - he got the motor rebuilt and then he and I and Chris Holstrom reinstalled it. It's been good ever since. Good times.

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Originally Posted by DBasher (Post 568288)

Too bad it's another poopie Camaro or I'd have a whole basket full of cast off parts... Guess I'll have to give 'em to Basher instead.

Basket or pallet?

Just got back from "watching" Rushforth and his friends auto-x in Bremerton...two more events for the year. I think I may have to just run it as is----this "watching" thing is getting old!

:hairpullout:
Dan

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Originally Posted by GregWeld (Post 568256)

I like running Green group because the driver experience - thus quality - seems to be far higher than the Red group drivers. The Red group seems to be full of people that barely graduated Yellow - and now think they're fast... but forget to point by - or pinch you off because they don't look around... and some take terrible lines etc. Last year at Mini Nats - in the Red group - Two different sessions I came rolling out of the Carrousel only to find cars wadded up at the bottom... a Porsche and a brand spanking new GT500 that didn't even have plates yet! That is not a difficult turn IMHO..... and these cars were wadded up front and back - both totals. Whereas you rarely have an incident in Green and rarely have a spin... and you can drive with more confidence in the guys around you or in front of you.

Dam good points!!

I'm gonna run Red group in October, cause i may still be that newb who does'nt do a wave by at the right time....last thing i want to do...

Anyone going to the Laguna event end of this month? Plan is to take my dads Shelby since my car is cut in half. And we can run the boom tubes because it is unlimited sound :confused18:

I registered but then bailed. I started building my detached garage and I'll be doing the foundation and framing. Spent labor day weekend digging footings. I'll be forming it this weekend and hopefully framing it the next.

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Originally Posted by 358Mustang (Post 568517)

Anyone going to the Laguna event end of this month? Plan is to take my dads Shelby since my car is cut in half. And we can run the boom tubes because it is unlimited sound :confused18:

I might come down just to see/hear this. :rockin:

What's the word?

Done yet?

As cool as the new rims are, they're going to change the entire look of the car!

:gitrdun:
Dan

It must not have liked everything else I had to say, none of it showed......Something about a Torino and silencing Ron Sutton on the build, cheese balls a certain orange Camaro and fancy beer....oh well, wasn't important. LOL

Thanks for the feedback, Greg. I know a couple of guys in the Red group, one of whom has chosen blue for Laguna... Don't get it...

If it's any consolation, my wife really likes Twinkies... There was also an interesting murder trial, which created the "Twinkie defense"...

You know Gaetano knows the speed...

Back to work, almost...

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Originally Posted by GregWeld (Post 568256)

Good question on the speedo - which I can't answer because if it does have one I don't ever look at it. Ditto the Lotus... I never have any idea how fast I'm going - or as Gaetano would suggest - how slow.

You have to be a real man to crush the competition when they're on steam rollers and you're on skinnies. Skinnies for the win!!

I have a new nickname for this car -- "expensive POS". Good thing I love it!

I like running Green group because the driver experience - thus quality - seems to be far higher than the Red group drivers. The Red group seems to be full of people that barely graduated Yellow - and now think they're fast... but forget to point by - or pinch you off because they don't look around... and some take terrible lines etc. Last year at Mini Nats - in the Red group - Two different sessions I came rolling out of the Carrousel only to find cars wadded up at the bottom... a Porsche and a brand spanking new GT500 that didn't even have plates yet! That is not a difficult turn IMHO..... and these cars were wadded up front and back - both totals. Whereas you rarely have an incident in Green and rarely have a spin... and you can drive with more confidence in the guys around you or in front of you.

I'll be there, but I'm in the slow group with all of the GT500s and lesser Vipers and whatnot... I'll be the quiet one with the loud dents...

For sure back to work...

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Originally Posted by 358Mustang (Post 568517)

Anyone going to the Laguna event end of this month? Plan is to take my dads Shelby since my car is cut in half. And we can run the boom tubes because it is unlimited sound :confused18:

What kind of footage are you doing, Gaetano? My dream garage must fit a Peterbilt in at stack height (not roof). That's one high, maybe a couple across. My current garage can't fit the F250 in...

I'll now return to dreaming . . . I mean working.

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Originally Posted by Track Junky (Post 568527)

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Originally Posted by rustomatic (Post 568609)

No where near the footage I would like but I'm already using up quite a bit with the house on a 3rd acre lot. Shop will be 24' x 34'. Couldn't get the height I wanted either (Darn building dept.) but lucky enough for me they do make lifts for 10' ceilings.

I'll be taking next week off to get the foundation done and then I'll be framing for a few weekends after that. Everything else will get subbed out so hopefully it will be done the end of October. Stop by sometime on a weekend.