[Roadsters] X-Country

[Richard Brown]

Hey Peter,
Glad to hear you had a good trip.  I left Atlanta on Tuesday Nov 20th.  By 
Saturday the 24th I had put 3500 miles on the car with no problems.  Drove 
to SE Arizona then on to Salt Lake City.  I hear you about not illuminating 
elk.  On the trip back from SLC, about midnight on Saturday I found out 
first hand.

http://www.reblues.net/elk/

I had just gassed up and was getting ready drive through the Salt River 
Canyon under a full moon with no traffic.  Plans changed.

Borrowed a car & dolly to get the roadster home.  Looks like I have a new 
autocross car.  Oh, and I have not cleaned the patina from the car yet.

Richard Brown
70 No windshield car

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "peter harrison" <granvillecomputing at hotmail.com>
To: "datsun" <datsun-roadsters at autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 1:23 PM
Subject: [Roadsters] X-Country


> It appears to me that my emails have not been reaching the list - inasmuch 
> as
> I have not been receiving copies of emails I have sent.
>
> Has anyone received anything (other than personally referenced) since 
> about
> November 25th or so.
>
> You should have received at least 3.
>
> If anyone would like more details (assuming they have been missed) please 
> let
> me know.
>
> Anyhoo,I am back. After 8500+ miles - Eliza is dirty (but not too much so,
> thank god she is silver and not black  ) - don't know that i would have
> attempted such a trip in anything  contemporary british (foreign) ( 
> speaking
> as a brit ) - she held up fine -  muffler problems , bit of misfiring at 
> @3200
> (occasionally) - but overall what an amazing tribute to japanese 
> engineering.
> Smooth, reasonably powerful (1600), good roadholding (panasports), 5 speed
> really makes a difference and personally, not to be attempted wihout the
> benefit of miata seats, that in my humble opinion is an area that Datsun 
> could
> have been better at.
>
> So now I am in a quandry - when to clean her up - she needs to wear the 
> patina
> of having done what she has done, but equally I don't want her to be a 
> DIRTY
> car. I think I will leave her as she is (patinad (sp?) until the new year 
> and
> then do some SERIOUS detailing.
>
> So, I have stuff to do, upgrade the lights ( they don't illuminate 
> deers/elks
> at 100 paces),  rebuild the suspension (pulls to the left)
>
>
> Anyhoo, I am as previously stated - HOME
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