Post SEMA road trip

[PTAddict]

Originally Posted by GregWeld

Scott!

Beaches show at PIR EVERY Wednesday all thru summer beginning in May I think. Starts around 3:30 in the afternoon and runs 'til about dark. It's $5 if you're in a "hot rod" or show type car... If you're in a regular car you can't get in - you have park outside and take a tram in. Beaches restaurant puts it on. Live band -- great inexpensive burgers and salads - water - drinks (booze)/ beer...
Drag racing (1/8th mile) and usually 1000 cars and 200+ bikes parked on the grass.

They donate the profit to Children's Hospital - last year I think it was over 100 grand.

Thanks! I'll be there. I've put it on my calendar to check out beginning May next year.

[awr68]

Scott, I loved your car and checked it out daily....what a great build and tastfully done! If I'm not mistaken Steve lives about a mile from me! Is his shop in Lake Grove and he lives in Orenco (Hillsboro)?

If the others will allow I would like to join all of you this summer at Beaches....

[GregWeld]

Originally Posted by awr68

If the others will allow I would like to join all of you this summer at Beaches....

Not so easy buddy! You have to have a running drivable car and be over 5'4"'s



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Jennifer can come with my Sister though!

[awr68]

I'll have you know that I'm a towering 5'5''! I'll work on the running car thing.....

[96z28ss]

Originally Posted by awr68

Scott, I loved your car and checked it out daily....what a great build and tastfully done! If I'm not mistaken Steve lives about a mile from me! Is his shop in Lake Grove and he lives in Orenco (Hillsboro)?

If the others will allow I would like to join all of you this summer at Beaches....

The Shop is in Lake Oswego.

[awr68]

Originally Posted by 96z28ss

The Shop is in Lake Oswego.

Yeah I remember seeing that, but if it's the shop I'm thinking of it's outside LO in Lake Grove (closer to I5).......

[Flash68]

Originally Posted by PTAddict

Well, we didn't get an invite to the Optima Challenge, but at least I got to drive my car home from Vegas to Portland. We trailered it down to keep it clean, but no need to worry about that afterward (see the pics). It was the first time I got to drive it completed, and it's really a sweet driving car. No problems at all.

Ride and handling are excellent, even with the shock settings we used for the road course shakedown. Car is pretty quiet, due to liberal use of damping products from Second Skin Audio. Got 20 MPG for the trip.

Special thanks to Steve at Modern Classics, Kyle and Stacy at DSE for the superb customer service and setup help, and Vintage Air for the SEMA Feature Vehicle invite.

Specs on the car:
- LS7, mild cam, FAST intake, Mast Motorsports M-90 ECU
- D & D Viper T56, Textralia Clutch
- DSE Subframe, Quadralink, and connectors
- Baer Extreme brakes, DSE booster/master
- Forgeline wheels/Michelin PS2 street, CCW/BFG R1 track
- 10 point cage, most bars removable
- Built by Steve Heino at Modern Classics Performance, Lake Oswego, OR
- Body/Paint by Darrell Baumann at DB Customs, Newberg, OR
- Color is 2009 Challenger Hemi Orange

Trip pictures at this link (check out the snow):

http://picasaweb.google.com/scott.bo...OeJ_LGg-cu5WA#

I was hoping to find more info on this car!! Was absolutely my favorite car and it SHOULD have been invited to Optima. Looked like it was made to be there. Such a nicely done car. Congrats and thanks for posting.

Originally Posted by XcYZ

Our group LOVED your car. We checked it out several times.

We checked it out 3 separate times also. One of the few cars I took a bunch of pics of.

[PTAddict]

Originally Posted by awr68

Yeah I remember seeing that, but if it's the shop I'm thinking of it's outside LO in Lake Grove (closer to I5).......

Yes, that's Steve's shop on Jean Rd. in the Lake Grove section of Lake Oswego.

[PTAddict]

Originally Posted by Flash68

I was hoping to find more info on this car!! Was absolutely my favorite car and it SHOULD have been invited to Optima.

Thanks. I think the car probably suffered for being a '69 Camaro when it came to the Optima selection - there were plenty of Camaros already, and they were probably trying to look for more variety. Plus, I wasn't hanging around the car much the first 3 days - I serve as Steve's EFI tuner and technical advisor, so I was walking the show and scoping out all of the new stuff.

[Vegas69]

Having a 69 is definitely a handicap getting into the challenge. I wouldn't let one year of not getting the nod turn you off. I took me three years to get into the show. Show up at El Toro in February and other misc. events and try to race your way in. At least it's not a black 69. Glad to see you actually using the car.