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Post by brad on Apr 25, 2012 15:34:34 GMT -6
Starbuckians across from the Bass Pro at 6 PM
Nice night for a ride, right?
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Post by greaser on Apr 25, 2012 15:56:46 GMT -6
Yep! I will make it but be in my jeep with kids in tow.
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Post by brad on Apr 25, 2012 16:55:20 GMT -6
Sorry I've been off the radar buddy. Been working 20 hr days. Ready for a break!!
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Post by greaser on Apr 25, 2012 17:09:36 GMT -6
its okay. well have a break at starbucks :-)
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Post by Vince on Apr 25, 2012 18:28:19 GMT -6
Sorry I missed it. Heading out of town to Texas tomorrow. Back next week.
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Post by Phillip-S on Apr 25, 2012 18:33:52 GMT -6
Sorry I missed you guys, but work followed me home tonight. I tried to slam the front door on it, but it still seeped in. Insidious it is.  Mulling a quick run through the slow twisties close to town Saturday, if the weather permits. Cody and Tim jolted my memories of some of the roads I used to haunt as a kid, and I can probably show off a few that remain undiscovered. All 2nd and 3rd gear stuff, but still fun. Now back in the day when they were still gravel and I could hang the rear end of my Audi 4000 out as I imitated a rally driver, that was probably more fun. But I'm older and much more responsible now... At least until I get that dirt tracker built. ;D |
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Post by brad on Apr 25, 2012 19:01:58 GMT -6
Audi 4000!!!!! LUCKY!!!
I cut my rallying teeth in the bootheel with a Chevette.
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Post by zoomzoommo on Apr 25, 2012 19:13:28 GMT -6
Audi 4000!!!!! LUCKY!!! I cut my rallying teeth in the bootheel with a Chevette. Swamp East as my Dad, a former Sikestonite, used to say. My first car, currently sitting in a Friend's Quonset hut awaiting restoration, was a '63 Corvair Monza convertible with the 2 speed power glide. Quite the fun car on gravel with the pendulum effect. Unsafe at any speed in the hands of a 16 year old. My sister had an old Audi with the 5 cylinder. |
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Post by Phillip-S on Apr 25, 2012 22:53:42 GMT -6
brad: I had delusions that it was a Quattro, when in reality it was a gussied up fwd VW Jetta. Man, I thrashed that thing within an inch of it's life. But I actually learned to slip and slide with a '64 Bug I bought at 13 with my life savings from hauling hay. I terrorized quite a few cattle until I got the nerve to sneak onto the roads. @zoom: A cattle rancher that I worked for as a kid had a Corvair. Even then I wondered about the wisdom of a gasoline fired heater under the dash. I don't know if that was a factory option, or something he cobbled together. A neighbor chopped one into a rail buggy. Tail heavy + cutting brakes + gravel roads = "interesting" handling dynamics.
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Post by brad on Apr 25, 2012 23:40:13 GMT -6
Audi 4000!!!!! LUCKY!!! I cut my rallying teeth in the bootheel with a Chevette. Swamp East as my Dad, a former Sikestonite, used to say. My first car, currently sitting in a Friend's Quonset hut awaiting restoration, was a '63 Corvair Monza convertible with the 2 speed power glide. Quite the fun car on gravel with the pendulum effect. Unsafe at any speed in the hands of a 16 year old. My sister had an old Audi with the 5 cylinder. What you did there...........He sees it.  |
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Post by zoomzoommo on Apr 26, 2012 15:01:33 GMT -6
Most people think Nader killed the 'Vair, but I think it was that Ford they started making in 1964 1/2, under the tutelage of that Iococca dude.
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Post by brad on Apr 26, 2012 16:09:30 GMT -6
Most people think Nader killed the 'Vair, but I think it was that Ford they started making in 1964 1/2, under the tutelage of that Iococca dude. That really does make sense. |
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Post by tpierce on Apr 26, 2012 19:08:24 GMT -6
My high school days had me running around with Gary in his Corvair Spyder convertible. 1964. 180 HP. Still wouldn't turn. How did this conversation get from a starbucks cruise-in to Ralph Nadar? Never a dull moment around here.
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Post by Phillip-S on Apr 27, 2012 14:41:11 GMT -6
brad: You're in good company, I'm sure that I read that Sébastien Loeb started his World Rally career bombing around the back roads of Alsace, France in a Chevette ;D (Road & Track magazine once called it the most "abuser friendly" car that Chevrolet ever built). @tim: Yep, we're an eclectic crew around here. I'm sure that's why you fit in so well amigo. :-)
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Post by greaser on May 2, 2012 16:26:56 GMT -6
BUMPITY BUMP>>>
Anyone up for a mid-week Java fix? Starbucks on sunshine, 6:45/7:00ish?
Who's game?
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