Sounds like an awesome day.
David Riker
74 Midget
63 Falcon
70 Torino
http://personalweb.sunset.net/~davidr
----- Original Message -----
From "Patricia Sauthoff" <Patricia.Sauthoff at blvdmedia.com>
To: <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2000 3:34 PM
Subject: Rally
> Ah what a great saturday. We met for a rally this morning about 10am,
with
> probably about 40 cars. I got to see another bugeye! which was very
> exciting since I've only seen 3 total in person (including mine). About a
> quarter after 10 we left for the mountains, James and I doing the easy
rally
> since I had to work at 3:30 in downtown Denver. So we left the park and
got
> a mere 3 miles before the rally route was wrong due to a road closure.
The
> other people seemed to know what they were doing so we followed them for a
> bit. By the time we got to the highway into the mountains our faith in
the
> directions was pretty low. But we kept going, looking desperately for
exit
> 242. By the time we got to mile marker 242 we realized that it was
supposed
> to be exit 252, and that there was a typo. So we just headed up to the
lake
> (check point) following some other people who knew where it was. Once we
> finally reached the checkpoint my car was extremely unhappy, running at
3000
> rpms in neutral and the fuel pump clicking quite loudly, and she was not
> thrilled to learn that because of the road closure and misprint we had to
go
> back down the way we came up. So we turned around and headed immediately
to
> the gas station before getting back on the highway. Once she cooled off
for
> a few and got some more of her beloved gasoline she was running just fine,
> though the fuel pump is still a little louder than it used to be. We made
> it to the finish without incident and stayed in the parking area of a
casino
> for a bit before heading home. Everyone seemed to like my bugeye and the
> other bugeye owner was quite jealous that he'd payed the same amount as I
> had, but spent a lot of time and money before it was in as good of shape
> (and I'm not being cocky here, I'm not the one who put in hours of blood
> sweat and tears restoring this car, I don't care which one is nicer, I
just
> want mine to run well and look nice). Many of the fellas there were quite
> impressed with the deal that I got (thank you again RH). Well I didn't
make
> it into the group picture because I had to come to work, and I forgot my
> sunscreen this morning, so I'm a crispy critter this afternoon! Tomorrow
is
> the car show! I'm actually excited, to think 3 months ago I went to my
> first ever car show, and now I'm entering a car, so strange so strange.
> Mark, if your still going I'll be the super sunburnt girl in a (probably
> white) tank top! Hope to see you there.
>
> Patricia
> '59 Bugeye
>
> "If I survive this life without dying, I'll be surprised"
> -Mulla Nasrudin
>
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