1971 Firebird Build ("The Other Woman", a.k.a. Project "T.O.W.")

[carbuff]

Originally Posted by OLDFLM

Holy Fireballs! Phoenix is right!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fyqDIh2KIw

"This is one of the hottest Panteras around."

Painful to watch... :\

[chichirone]

Great video of your run Bryan. Your enthusiasm and excitement is contagious. Makes me want to go out and run an auto-x right NOW!

Th course set up was much different than previous years as well. Looked and sounded like a good time.

[waynieZ]

That video was painful to watch. I'm glad you had nothing like that happen.

[carbuff]

Originally Posted by waynieZ

That video was painful to watch. I'm glad you had nothing like that happen.

Oof, me too!

[carbuff]

Even with such a 'small' fire, it definitely has me thinking about my use of the car and what I want/need to go doing forward. I love driving this car, but I have no interest in watching it burn to the ground... :\

It's similar to the discussions that have taken place here about the USCA events. Thankfully, there haven't been any bad accidents (that I'm aware of), but the possibility of one happening always exists.

[Panteracer]

Vince is right an on board system
Is the best. I had my Pantera on fire last
Year and was lucky I was going slow and able
to get out and use a hand held extinguisher

Bird has been on fire several times due to no
air filter and backfires. Most of the time you could
suck it back into the motor. Now I have a filter and
no backfires

Need to look at the on board systems. Seems like
making them run fast always is the priority

Bob

[carbuff]

Here are a couple of videos from this weekend's autocross. We had FIVE cars in the CAM-T class! Pretty exciting to have more similar cars... There were issues that crept up with a couple of them, but it was still fun to have them there.

Unfortunately we ran in the first group of the day, and the course was DIRTY to say the least. I think we were still throwing up dust after our 5th and final runs...

The first video was my best run of the day (according to the Garmin), but there was a timing issue so I had to rerun it. The second video is of the rerun, and you can see I was a lot more squirrelly in that run, to the point I spun. Oh well, it was fun!

[carbuff]

Originally Posted by chichirone

Great video of your run Bryan. Your enthusiasm and excitement is contagious. Makes me want to go out and run an auto-x right NOW!

Th course set up was much different than previous years as well. Looked and sounded like a good time.

They took some of the "technicality" out of the course: opened up some of the turns, removed a couple of turns, shortened the course overall. I really liked it.

I had just lost the lead for the first time right before that run, and I managed to take it right back which was pretty awesome for me. Thus my enthusiasm.

Sorry you two couldn't be there! Hopefully we'll end up at an event together again...