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A Horse With No Name

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  1. Philly might be better for them. Would love to have 'blu and 'camino for Drew's Birthday! Chris
  2. Glad to see you doing your own work! Good luck with the Jeep Rob...and have fun with it. Chris
  3. I do want to hook up and meet with you... If nothing else...Pittsburg is not a whole lot further than Cleveland. Both Dave and Andy have something else that weekend IIRC. So maybe we have a birthday bash for Drew in Pittsburg? Chris
  4. I've seen 20 year old guys in a pack of 65 drivers at SCCA races, and the 20 year old is out front leading...and a lot of the guys he's in front of are 40, 50, 60 years old. All I am saying is that Heinricy is top level talent. The CTS actually looks better to me after this test, because it shows that a less than perfect driver (Lutz) can still get an awesome lap time out of it. A fast car is no good if it takes a pro driver to get the most of it. Chris
  5. Sweet! Really pulling for the new GM. Chris
  6. Heinricy has won several SCCA championships. Going to a drivers school will NOT make you as good as Heinricy. AMAZED that Lutz was that close. M3/CTS-V- Very close cars performance wise but... One of the guys who I do electrical work for is a salesman at the local BMW dealer. Let's just say overall...having experienced both the CTS-V and the M-3...I would strongly prefer the CTS-V.
  7. An intercooler costs money. How much extra do you want to pay for the car? 95-99% of the drivers would never have needed the extra performance. The GP GTP was not as much of a pure performance car as the CTS-V. Chris
  8. I'd really like to see you keep the wagon. Having seen it in person...it's just really too nice and too unique a piece to sell, IMHO. Chris
  9. Bingo! Chris
  10. Wow...Alfa Montreal, Astin Martin, Lotus... And a Volvo! Cool cars in there! Chris
  11. Meant so say "Fox body (1979-1992) Mustangs. ...and no offense Moltar, still like yours. But for the most part they leave me cold. Chris
  12. For me: Love vintage Mustangs...but the last Mustangs I would really want to own left Ford in the summer of 1970 when they re-tooled for the '71 models. Really dislike fix body Mustangs anymore... Also dislike the Japanese "supercars" of the early 1990's...Supra, FD RX-7, 3000GT Mitsu, 300ZX, et al. But I do like the NSX. Almost anything Lincoln between thbe 60's suicide door cars and the current models. Like the Suicide door cars and the latest and greatest...but the Town Cars, 70's Lincolns...ughhh....yuck... So what do you dislike? Chris
  13. I'm the misfit here. British Racing Green! Chris Although after that I would say blue, then white. And I'm with Cubical, I like dark metallic grey, it looks good on everything. Chris
  14. Looks like we've got the local people, SA, Z06, me, etc. I'll be PMing some people who have shown interest. PM me if interested. Chris
  15. I've got two local SCCA guys who have the money and skill to pull this off...and Z06 seems to have the money and determination to pull this off. That makes four of us. Will keep you posted, but it looks like we will be running at Gingerman, which is a tight, technical track, should be actually good for newbie drivers. Chris
  16. If we run the 'bird as a LeMons car, we'll just run it as an autotrajic. Finishing the race is far more important than outright speed. Chris
  17. Thanks-I agree a third gen car would be better. I'm going to start working behind the scenes and let Z06 kind of take over from here- He will probably be leading our effort. Still have one more frame guy to talk to on Whitenight's bird. Chris
  18. Since the dragstrip is closed for the season...GO RUN THE Z 71 THROUGH SOME MUD! Happy birthday, Daryl. Chris
  19. Off topic a little bit...but a bunch of the Vintage Utes are cool. Would be awesome to have a couple of modern utes and a set of vintage utes. Chris
  20. Camino-Do you like the "real" race car idea??? Let's brain storm about where this could take us. Here is the 4-1-1 at the moment. Showed white nights 'bird pics to a few really, really good frame and body guys. The news...it's gonna need some serious time on a frame rack to bring it back. Calling in favors, it's gonna run me $750 or so to do it if I'm lucky. Can get the rest of the parts to put the nose back together for about $250... Figure a hundred for a balljoint and an alignment and your at $1100. I can get paint and supplies and get the nose painted and still be under $1500 for the repair. Thus I could repair the car correctly and we could do drivers schools and open track days events with it and so forth. But a correct or safe repair would put us over LeMons budget. Wouldn't repair it that well for a LeMons car...but...two ayem on a rainy night with a newbie driver is NOT the time to figure out that the car hasn't been made straight correctly. Don't know If I've said this before, but a LeMons legal cage will cost us about a grand...the autopower rollcage kit is the DOM steel approved and we'd need to add an extra door bar for LeMons. Checked out a third gen today after I got the news from my body guys about the shock tower on Whitenights 'bird...but that car was a no-go. Need to find some way to bring everyone together on this. Chris
  21. Actually if this does go through...all of the other guys are big. I am 5'11 or so, and about 250 lbs. The other three guys locally who are interested in doing this are larger than I am. Thinking if we do follow through with this and take the 'bird I may just leave the autotrajic in it with fresh fluid and a cooler. Chris
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