[Roadsters] X-Country

[Tim]

Ah man. I am just crying. 

I have a nice windshield--one rock chip--that you can have for the price of shipping if you want it. Cheap as I can make it to try to soften the blow. 

Did you salvage the meat and eat the damned thing that did that to your car? Elk is good eats!!

Feeling your pain, kinda.

Tim
Belleville, WI.
'70 SPL AND SRL
Still clueless but always learning

---- Richard Brown <reblues at reblues.net> wrote: 

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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