i was about to make an open offer to trade drives with my car. that is, if
he thinks he can handle it :^o besides, it saves some poor nissan salesman
from going with me when i test it out.
-james
OSP - Often Stark Panic
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jake Hodges" <jake@codeworm.com>
To: "Paul S (#51 STS)" <ibisbike@yahoo.com>; <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 06:07 PM
Subject: RE: Track Day @Thunderhill, Dec 14th
> I've had a little experience with them now.. My friend Nathan in Santa
> Barbara just got one, and he's totally in love with it. He describes it
as
> a beast. I'm trying to get him up here for an autocross by convincing him
> he could probably trade fun runs for something different.. Like maybe a
Cobra..
>
> I also stopped by the BMW club's track event at Sears Point last weekend
to
> take pictures of a friend. A guy from the east coast flew out and
> "borrowed" a 350Z with a 6-speed transmission for the weekend, and he and
> the folks who got rides with him were very impressed. He bashed the stock
> tires for being even more pathetic than they would have imagined and he
> laughed about the absurd lack of cargo capacity for a car of it's
> size. Other than that, he had nothing bad to say, and he mentioned the
> impressive torque several times in our short conversation... Not bad for
a
> BMW zealot at a BMW track event.
>
> When we started prying plastic bits off, we discovered that the brace
> inside the "trunk bridge" is indeed large enough to justify that huge
> plastic monstrosity that sucks up all the room. It's just a huge(!)
> body-colored square hunk of metal that connects the shock towers.. Perhaps
> they'd intended it to be a useful spot for mounting a fifth-wheel hitch.
>
> I'll keep working on Nathan!
>
> Jake
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