Great going Larry! Sounds like you had a bunch of fun. You did
everything you could to make it run well and you succeeded. 40 year old
mufflers are the bane of performance. Now that you can get fuel through
the carbs, you better watch out. You'll be running out of gas at
inopportune times! Congrats on your fun weekend.
Paul
PAsgeirsson@juno.com
On Mon, 27 Sep 1999 10:00:57 -0700 "Larry Miller" <millerls@ado13.com>
writes:
>I'm car'ed out. What a weekend, Cherry's Jubilee all day Friday,
>Saturday,
>and Sunday. We had not planned on going Sunday but the Bugeye won the
>"Spiffy Sports Car" award so we had to attend the awards ceremony to
>pick up
>the plaque (http://www.ado13.com/cj99/SpiffyAward.jpg). There were
>actually
>four Bugeye's this year and quite a few other British cars but no
>square
>bodies. An Austin Healey 100M also won an award. The first couple of
>years
>at Cherry's they kind of frowned on British cars but are starting to
>come
>around. Since they are a bunch of hot rodders you do not get penalized
>in
>the judging for being non-stock :-) It also helped that the head judge
>used
>to race Sprites.
>
>Friday, there was a poker run down the coast to Big Sur with a $1000
>prize.
>Had the prize went to the worst poker hand we would probably have won.
>About
>500 of the 1,020 registered cars participated in the run. It was
>pretty neat
>cruising down the coast with all of the Hot Rods and Custom cars.
>
>Friday night there was a cruise down Alvarado in Monterey, through the
>plaza
>at the Double Tree and around cannery row. Really got claustrophobic
>going
>down Alvarado in the Bugeye. There were thousands of spectators and
>they
>were not restricted to the sidewalks. People pressing right up to and
>between the cars all along the street.
>
>Saturday at Laguna Seca I did three hot laps in a Porsche 911 Turbo
>race car
>with a young man that really knew how to drive it. Over 130 on the
>front
>straight, 120 between turns 4 and 5 and way too fast through the
>corkscrew.
>He scared the crap out of me on the first lap at turn 5 because I
>thought he
>was going to take the corner at 120 MPH. As we went by the 5 marker,
>I'm
>thinking ok it's time to start braking, when we passed the 4 marker,
>I'm
>thinking, what the hell is he going to do, as we passed the 3 marker,
>I'm
>thinking, this crazy bastard is not going to brake. Coming up on the 2
>marker, I'm thinking we are going to DIE. I guess I did not realize
>how late
>they braked :-) After that it was a real blast.
>
>Also did 5 laps in the Bugeye. Got to wind it out to max in 1st
>through 4th
>on the front straight. We must have been doing all of 70 at the top of
>the
>hill, slightly less then the Porsche Turbo but the corkscrew was just
>as
>much fun. I also started braking at the 5 marker on turn 5 :-) The
>track
>through the corkscrew is down hill so the Bugeye goes like hell on
>that part
>of the track, wide open in 3rd at about 55 or so on exit. The sound
>from the
>new glasspack is pretty wild, the car sounds way faster then it really
>is
>when it gets over 4500 RPM.
>
>On Sunday all of the award winners did two parade laps. I embarrassed
>myself
>by running out of gas on the 2nd lap. I always carry a 2 1/2 gallon
>jug with
>me so we did not hold things up too much.
>
>The people making the official video of the event loved the Bugeye.
>They
>filmed the car and interviewed me on Sunday and said that the Bugeye
>would
>definitely be in the video. Guess I will have to order a copy :-)
>
>I lost a lugnut on Friday, never had a lugnut come off in my life.
>Anybody
>have an extra one for the Minitor(?Sp.) mag? The other 3 were tight so
>I
>don't know what I did, must have just missed tightening it when I put
>the
>wheel back on last week. Old age sucks, I'm getting to the point where
>Sandi
>has to check my fly before letting me go out in public.
>
>Paul, the car ran great all weekend, maybe the new muffler fixed the
>problem.
>
>A few pictures can be seen at http://www.ado13.com/cj99/cj99.html
>
>Larry Miller
>http://www.ado13.com
>Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to
>keep
>your mouth shut.-Ernest Hemmingway
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