Great weekend!
"Jessie" treated me right this time. 800 miles, and a
few fast laps, and no heating or other problems. Just
her nice smooth 1600 purr. Arrived home on time and
with great memories. Nice swapping roadster talk, and
benefiting from all the cumulative knowlege at this
event. See you all again soon, with the 2000
(Rodney) next time. (don't tell Jessie)...
Mike Harper
Charleston SC
'66 1600
'68 2000
--- "Hall, Phillip" <Phillip.B.Hall@MSFC.NASA.GOV>
wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hall, Phillip
> [mailto:Phillip.B.Hall@MSFC.NASA.GOV]
> Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 12:50 PM
> To: Roadsters (E-mail)
> Subject: SERI run to Road Atlanta
>
>
> Hey all great Roadster folks!
>
> SEROC had a wonderful trip to Road Atlanta!!!
>
> I got there to find Mike Faggart (NC) in his
> rendition of the "prime queen",
> Brad Holmes and his wife (AL) in their most
> excellent Solex 68, Tommie and
> John in a beautiful white '66 (NC), Mike Harper in
> another beautiful sona
> blue '66, and Ron Ayres and his wife (FL) in
> ..well... a Maxima - but a
> nice one! Thomas King (Roadster Mart) followed us
> (me and Alan) in his
> Miata. My '66 "Rice Rocket" ran perfect for the 5.5
> hour trip. Of course I
> was late and had the burger burn stuff with me and
> the guys looked pretty
> famished:) My little pack-away grill did a good job
> on the burgers, but
> took two hours to get them all cooked - sorry guys.
> I think I am fired from
> being grill mister:)
>
> The races were great, but sometimes the noise got in
> the way of good'ol
> Roadster talk:) I must say SEROCers are the
> greatest!! After the races we
> went and checked in to our motels then off to
> Applebees for dinner. Some of
> us went to the bar that we met a waitress last year
> with a boy friend that
> had a 67.5 1600 with 2L motor. Low and behold they
> were still at the bar
> and we had a great time talking - you guessed it -
> Roadsters!
>
> The next day, we met at the Hampton then to the
> track. We had a very
> informal meeting and gave out prizes. Then off to
> parade laps. This year
> the pace car was much faster so we all got in some
> fast corners - what a
> hoot!!! After that we went through the pit area and
> drooled on the nice
> race cars. Even a 510 for sale - me and Ron just
> about got in a fight over
> it, but his wife and the thoughts of my wife with
> shoot gun in hand brought
> us back to reality. Chris joined us in Pinky -
> always great to have Chris -
> a great guy!
>
> It all came to an end and we said our good byes and
> headed home. Alan and
> myself are very sun burned with my nose blistering
> today. One note - on the
> way over and back we shared the road with the bikers
> (mostly Harley's) that
> were on the way to the "Trail of Tears" ride. They
> were really showing the
> Red, White and Blue!! We gave each other the thumps
> up as we supported our
> great country! My wife reported that the trail of
> bikes was 4 miles long
> going through Huntsville. That would have been a
> sight!
>
> Thanks guys for coming!!!!!!!!!!! And sorry Reggie,
> Brian and others that
> could not make it. Some things are more important.
> We are planning the
> next run for this year. We will pick a place to run
> some corners as the
> leafs turn.
>
> Phil
> SERI
>
> PS - thanks Brad for the SEROC cards!! We are all
> now card caring members!
> And for the door prizes and custom made Roadster sun
> shade that Ron won.
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