skull and crossed axes + spider thing on dash each increase awesomeness by the power of 3, meaning that this car is now mathematically awsome to the 9th power! It’s so awesome it doesn’t need that “e” in the middle–it’s AWSOME!The flame decals on the bumper make it still AWSOMER, squared again, so like AWSOME TO THE 18TH POWER, WHICH IS AWZUM!!…[Read more]

Sweeeeet! Fingers crossed that this goes on smoove.

Just played eenie- meenie-minee-moe at the paint store. The marine store I had gotten the white paint from can no longer supply a dark broun. It is discontinued. I went to one paint supply store and was told they have nothing equal to that type of paint. I tried another marine store and was referred to another paint supply house that supplies them…[Read more]

Phase 1 (bottom tier) was somewhere between 18 and 20 tons. Each block was 80 lbs and we set them in 3 tons of CR6 and maybe 5 tons of #57 stone before putting the 4 yards of potting soil on top.This second one was less material, but I’m having to trench out the top now, since the hill is steeper there AND I was throwing the dirt UP the hill . . .…[Read more]

Yeah. Type 34 = very cool and unusual ride.

Entrance pass for Carlisle has arrived and is affixed to my windshield( now that it is installed)

OK, I’ve heard from Donna and she will be at Carlisle on Saturday. Our numbers keep growing. This is gonna be good.

Nice job. Hard work. Those blocks ain’t light. Did a large wall myself 10 years ago. Count your blocks and calculate the tonnage you’ve moved.It does look nice.

Ah yes. Many days like that. I’m still working on the skill of “leaving it be.” That is the key thing.Hoping to get back to work on the car in the coming week. Been doing the second tier of the terrace & it’s almost done. Got the caps glued on tonight; Saturday morning I’ll have a couple guys here to help dig and fill ‘er up with enriched soil.…[Read more]

I love doing that !!! People get all worked up when you do that.

I slalomed through a highway construction site on the way home this afternoon. All systems go!

Man, did you ever have one of those days when everything you do turns to sh*t?I had to call it quits tonight. As everything escalated, I just became angry and nothing was accomplished. My garage was disorganized when I decided to rip the car apart and nothing has gotten any better with the car strewn all over the garage. I couldn’t seem to find…[Read more]

Here’s the latest word from the folks at the SCCA…

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 OK – It sounds like I will meet you all in Carlisle either Thursday PM ( Ed ) and Bill and Roy on Friday AM.Hopefully the rest of you all coming will be there as well. Looking forward to seeing everyone again and meeting any new folks.

Ok, now I’m saying no. Hopefully you’ll get Todd and Syl and all drive. And what a sight you’ll be!I’ll meet you on the site or maybe at the hotel. We’re going up Thursday afternoon.

Ah, not sure about this one, Dale. Joppa to Carlisle is about a 2 hour run for me, 100 miles, more or less.Joppa to Hagerstown is almost as long–93 miles and an hour and a half on the highways. Then it’s another hour to the show. I’m not saying “no” yet, just pondering. Leaning towards meeting y’all there though.

OK guys – any firm up on this caravan? One of the speedster guys in Falls Church – Syl – is planning to either flat tow or drive his ride up and I can hook up w/ him directly to Carlisle or meet the crew in Hagerstown about noon for lunch and I have a email in to Todd ( another NV speedster guy ) to find out his plans. 

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OK Roy – bid on one – don’t bid against me – auction over in like 8-9 hours. We will see

Over the weekend I pumped up my tires a bit and tried some real hard turns at the end of our subdivision because I could not locate a practice lot. Did not have a lot of body lean so I am going to run what I have. I do have some concern about the quick zig zags around cones, but will just see how it goes. If I need a rear sway bar it will have to…[Read more]

I really think this should work fine if we all sign up at the same time. They’ll run is all in series, no problem.