> Wm. Severin Thompson wrote:
Repent my son, cleanse your soul, (and anything
> > else that needs cleansing). I'm guessing you're a Porsche guy, but hey,
> > we've even added some of them to our ranks... (like Dr. Dreadful and Bob
> > Tenges for those of you who get to the midwest race scene).
> >
Oh, No! Porsche guys on the list? Is it too late for me to withdraw from
the Thicko List? The last Porsche I owned cost me my drivers' license.
And a YEAR after I sold it, I dropped in at the police station for
another reason (my town has 8,000 pop.) and two cops that I had NEVER
MET said, almost in unison, "Oh -- Drews, huh -- you're the guy with the
Porsche, aren't you?" and wanted to talk cars. Not too many 911's in
Waverly, Iowa.
You want to know what terror is? Last year at a race at Road America,
Timing and Scoring screwed up on my practice time and awarded my lowly
TR4 the pole position for a prelim race. I've never been passed by so
darn many Porsches in my life! (But the Bob Harrington photo of me
leading about ten of them into turn five is priceless).
Porsches make me uncomfortable. They exude a rather sinister aura of
being Properly Engineered. Unlike Triumphs, they don't have scroll rear
crank seals tht leak, figure eight gaskets that fail, timing chain
tensioners that wear out each season, or carb jets that continually
jiggle off-center. I'm going to have to re-think my comfort zone with
the Team Thicko List.
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