A Horse With No Name

Your living in California, where I've always wanted to live, you worm in MINI dealership, and MINI is one of my fav. cars...you drive a bas ass BMW...and your sorry why? Welcome back dude...so good to hear from you. Oh, and welcome to the convertible Mafia here at C and G...the RWD Convertible Mafia...Camino owns a 72 Vette, I own the Miata, Big Pontiac owns a 68 Bonneville, You own the BMW, Future of GM owns a Mustang Ragtop.... LONG LIVE THE RWD RAGTOP!

I know who you are talking about now, but I had to Google the bejesus out of it, so I'll withhold the info, giving someone else a shot at it... but I still came back to the same roadblock that eliminated the driver in the first place... that record at Talladega appears to have been broken twice. I can't find anything that makes it particularly unique that it cannot be broken again. Same with the Indy wreck... I see what makes it unique, but not so unique it cannot happen again. It can happen again and will happen again in terms of the Indy accident, but the Taledega record is unique as it is a first...and the Indy accident is a "first also..." Another hint...driver was rookie of the year....at Indy....and the oldest rookie of the year ever....

Mental attitude is everything at the beginning of a project...have faith, sir!

Happy birthday....

The girl who makes my sandwich at Subway has a degree...as does the guy who changes my oil at Valvoline when I don't change it myself.

Another huge hint...the mother of one of the drivers is a personal friend of my thirteen year old son Daniel....Geography might help.... Oh, and this is not the Bill Elliot record....that record could still be broken. Next hint....the Chevy Monte Carlo will NEVER break this record....nor will any other car....for one very big and obvious reason....

Nice! Good to know she had it in her....see you need to autocross that thing after all!

Trivia number two...I am thinking about a race car driver... Race car driver was an SCCA member...and the first race they ran was in a Ford Pinto...which was promptly sunk into an on course lake during the drivers first ever race. Driver towed the P{into home and actually used the oven to dry out the windshield wiper motor and a bunch of other parts...and then drove it to work the Monday after it was totally submerged. This driver was most noted for racing Mustangs....but also ran at the Indy 500. Driver qualified well, and won an award...but never won the race. Driver set a track record at Talledega in a NASCAR prep Thunderbird that to this day the Monte Carlo has never beaten.... Driver won at the 24 hours of Daytona...and the 12 hours of Sebring...and drove at (but never won) LeMans. A few more hints...driver is from my home state of Ohio. This driver had a wreck that ended their competition career at Indy...and it was a historic, never to be repeated accident. And the source of the other hint that (if you are lucky or smart) will help you figure out this puzzle. The other driver in the Indy wreck was also from my home state of Ohio... Name the Driver, tell why the Monte Carlo never beat the record set at Talledega, and tell me what is unique and never to be repeated about the career ending Indy wreck. Good luck!

Trivia #1- This was a very ambitious father son project...and it has been used by every made of auto, from Ford to Ferrari. Father died at the beginning of the project, son was almost killed by the project....but yet every type of auto uses this THING they developed together. If your thinking along the lines of Piston, you are wrong, as the Mazda RX-7 and RX-8 use this, and they don't have pistons...if your thinking steering wheel the 1903 Curved dash Olds used a tiller and used this..so steering wheel and windshield fail. This was used by the 1962 Grand Prix and 64 Bonneville of Balthazars fantasy, the SS El Camino of Camino's fantasy, the GMC truck in Rogers fantasy, the Toranado in Olds fantasy, if your dreaming of a car...it has probably used this THING. Oh, and one off hand built cars frequently use this THING also....so the assembly line is out... A few hints....the son wanted to donate his home to the state of New Jersey as a governors mansion, but the house was torn down instead. The son had a nephew that helped develop one of the most successful racing cars of the Brass Era. Nephew was lost on the Titanic in 1912, which is a huge hint.... Name the THING, the father, the son, and the nephew...and also the racing car. Racing car was the S2000/Solstice/Miata/Boxster of it's day....a very sought after roadster. Also explain how the father lost his life and the son almost lost his with this "thing". Other huge hint.....there is a race track that the SCCA uses that bears the family surname. Tell what state that race track is in while your at it...google is your friend....

...and Arkus is the one dog on the planet strong enough to hang his head out the window at two hundred miles an hour... anyway, done with the sarcasm, keep us posted Camino.

Interesting none the less!

Do a youtube sarch for Flaco's truck, Texas mile...sarcastic, yes I know you will never go this fast in the Tahoe...but cool!

'blu...65 Vw is cool, agree that the new Beetle with the spanked down roof is cool....

http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvrUG2T7kSQ&feature=relmfu Your goal with the Tahoe. ...and that's a small block, BTW...and street legal....

I hear ya, buddy....

One last thought...old BMW's are cheap, and fun....provided you get a good one.

Or try something European...saw the little Alfa project car....these are available dirt cheap, and are astonishingly fun. Ask me about small roadsters some time when you've got three hours to kill....

this 'Bird...runs on the strip an auto crosses...you could have way to much fun with this thing...or something like it. This thing is way to far gone....but find an old VW and fix it up...parts are cheap...you work in a bodyshop....the VW guys are a great group of guys...half the fun of anything automotive is making new friends... Or find an interesting 80's car and continue to preserve it...this Shelby showed up at our last autocross, but a c4 Corvette or a Fiero would be cheap and right up your alley, I think.

Or find a two door, wagon or convertible version of this old Olds and make it a weekend cruiser.... ...or make some new friends and get involved in competition...this rollbar... is in...

Biggest thing Blu is that I've always thought you had some un used automotive creativity that could be brought out...these numbers are on the side of my friend Chucks car....but creatively done. I've always wondered what you would do given a little creative licence....

What NOT to do!

This GTO made me think of Balthazar also...a guy was out enjoying it with his sons on a day off...wanted to get a better pic but couldn't get to the car fast enough... Sorry, couldn't get the image of the GP to rotate in my computer for some odd reason.

Dirty little wants should be dirty little cheap, my friend. My wife's cousin put a bunch of money into a Mustang, drag raced it, and decided that eleven seconds of yee haw wasn't very fun. He bought an inexpensive Cherokee, modded it lightly, and wheels the piss out of it every weekend. Total investment in the Jeep is less than $3500 including tires, it doubles as a daily driver for him, and he's had wicked fun with it.

Old Pontiac made me think of Balthazar.... Always liked this color on the Mustang...looks good on a Factory Five replica also....

They built eleventy billion of them...find one that hasn't been trashed.