> OK, can I please have a report on how Carslie was. My home required
>some emergency repairs that sucked up a large amount of money that I
>intended to use at the show. Which one of you bought MY overdrive from
>my TR-6? ;-)
Well I was there all day Friday and Saturday. Spent most of my time over in
the
parts arena, cruising up and down the isles. I'm pretty sure I remember seeing
your transmission in fact. Great deals, great deals, picked up a new set of
crank and rod bearings for $18, perfectly good tonnoue for $10, enough welting
for one door for $5, a turbocharger that looks like it'll bolt right onto the
Spit for $50, set of new Koni's for my wife for $25.
Only ran into one person I know from here, and I was wearing my People Eating
Tasty Animals hat to boot! Very few Triumphs there, and trying to strike up a
conversation with them was, well, hopeless. I'd have liked to learn something
about the Triumph Italia or whatever it was called, but he wasn't talking to
anyone. About the time the guy with the ratty and only Spitfire glared at me
as I said hi and stomped on by to go to sleep in his car I decided to go look
at
other cars. And I thought Triumph folk were a bit better behaved then the MG
folk :-(
Maybe they knew I don't sneer at Miata's or something.
Strangely, the kids with the weird tricked out Hondas and Toyotas, with tattoos
and lots of pierced body parts were about the friendliest folks there showing
cars. Loved to talk about their cars, very courtious and enthusiastic. Picked
up a few tricks that I think I'm going to try on my CRX, and made one of the
CRX
guys there quite happy to learn a few things I'd done to mine. He was
especially pleased to learn the wagons sway bar does in fact fit in there quite
nicely.
I'd really recommend going, especially if the weather is good. Seeing an old
Bugati *drive* by is something else. Seeing a Countach being towed in
backwards on a rope is something else as well. <g> And it was quite pleasent
to be sandwiched between a couple of Ferraris as I left. Next time though I'll
get the date of the autocross right!
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