so waht ya doin today?

[Pistolero]

Goodwood Revival is Sept. 13 thru 16 this year. Festival of Speed, a wild, run-what-ya-brung hillclimb
up the driveway of Goodwood House is in July. We are thinking about that next year.

Highlights.....

The red Cortina came off quite "second hand" after that... A few US Fairlanes, it looks like.
And Cobras fighting with E-types....THAT is cool. Lots of Lotii.....open and closed wheel types.

2017https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQi_ANn46vk

Those white parts of the chicane are huge styrofoam blocks.

Yeah, I heard Franchiotti was driving, and usually a whole bunch of other famous current and
retired drivers. I hope to see Brian Redman, too, a personal favorite. Just finished reading his
book. A fun guy to meet and talk to. A survivor of the hard old days of racing where about
one in three died, it seems like.

Just got power back. Squirrel playing on the transformer. They don't get a chance to learn anything
from this. Boom, out of the gene pool. Fuse replaced on the transformer and back up. The lineman
said 7200 volts.....yep, that is way plenty to do a squirrel.

Bill

 

[Intheshop]

The last 3 laps will go down in GP history.

 

[popper]

Kenny's Wood Fired Grill West side of the toll road on Belt line, first left turn. Next to Kolbe. Getting into the parking lot is a PITA but worth it. Dinner bread is popovers.

 

[Winelover]

Dishwasher won't drain. Time to go tear into that.

Ours won't start. Upper drawer of a two drawer model. Have the $124 motor on order. It's only three inches by 1 1/2" in diameter. Using the bottom drawer, till it arrives.

 

[waco]

Drain line plugged up with gunk. Easy fix. Back in business.

 

[Winelover]

 

[462]

Winelover,
That motor looks a lot like anti-personnel bomblets I used to load:

 

[462]

From what I've seen locally, the Brits take their vintage racing much more seriously (read drive more aggressively) than Americans.

Brian Redman is/was in town and teamed up with a BWM he once drove. He was always approachable and non-egotistical, unlike so many other drivers. But, then, in my opinion many drivers up till the mid-90s were like that.

 

[waco]

Trying my hand at knapping obsidian. A lot harder than it looks. Work in progress.

 

[CZ93X62]

I was involved at one time with a lady who loved VARA events and drove a bug-eyed Sprite to commemorate that addiction. My role in that relationship was to maintain that British automotive anomaly. Lucas' last words, on his deathbed--"Don't........drive......in......the......dark......" Utterance complete, he expired. Do you know why Britain doesn't export audio gear or refrigerators? Because they haven't yet figured out how to have them leak crankcase oil. You get the drift.

Once free of that particular parasitism, I did later stumble upon the Love Of My Life--Marie. (NO, not a S&W Outdoorsman, as nice as that might be). I bring this up to celebrate our 18th wedding anniversary today, and to emphasize how much I wish I had found her 25 years sooner. Life would have been MUCH less complicated and controversial.

 

[S Mac]

Trying my hand at knapping obsidian. A lot harder than it looks. Work in progress.
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I wondered if you were collecting obsidian for that purpose. I have done a bit of knapping. Obsidian is probably the easiest to work with that I've tried, except maybe plate glass.

 

[Brad]

Finally realized the difference in chips between the lathe and the mill.

The lathe makes razorblades, the mill makes needles.

Both are potentially hazardous but those little needles from the mill are amazing in their ability to stick in your skin.

 

[L Ross]

Reloaded some black powder 45-70. Put 100 miles on the bike with a trip to the quilt shop so my wife could finish a project. On the way home I spotted my neighbor kid that I shoot with washing his Sportster and stopped in. He wanted to shoot our recently finished Model 700 .308s. I got stuff ready on my range and in a few minutes he stopped over and we zeroed 3 rifles before shooting some discs offhand with cast bullet ammo. Typically he out shot me, but it was not humiliating. He is stopping back tomorrow to pick up some ingots so he can cast up about 2,500 Lee 312-155-SPs. This young man is 19 years old, and is already and accomplished bullet caster, reloader, and a fine rifleman.

 

[Pistolero]

And break off, Brad. Same from carbide ball end pin rounters in a dremel.

Congrats, Allen. Old, joke. You know why the Brits drink warm beer? Lucas built their beer coolers.
Worked on a lot of Brit sports cars, never owned one. The more I learned about them the less I wanted one.
Only the E-type Jag is still on my list, but a decent on from the middle 60s today is between $65K and $100K.

I ran across Vic Elford a couple of years ago at Laguna, and we sat and chatted for about 30 minutes, I watched
him drive and win in a lot of really fast cars. He was there to drive the Chaparral Sucker Car, and a friend who
had done engineering on the wings for Jim Hall introduced me to Jim Hall, too. Elford ahd driven the Chaparral
Sucker Car at Road Atlanta in 1971 and I was in attendance. It was interesting to discuss it with Elford so many years
later. He said that it was such a huge leap in traction for braking and cornering that every lap of practice was faster
as he convinced himself he wasn't going to crash if he went even deeper into the corner before braking and even faster
around the corners. He said he was pretty sure that after several practice sessions and winning the race he STILL hadn't
gotten to where he could drive it at the limits. A really interesting guy, and easy to approach and talk to. Seemed perfectly
happy to just chat about old races and race cars.

And I saw Redman driving the BMW sedans with David Hobbs, another old driver that I met at Laguna, and got his book.
Hobb's father invented several different automatic transmissions in the 1930s held patents on a lot of that stuff. Until a couple
of years ago Hobbs was the expert driver/analyst for the F! coverage on US TV. The current coverage is dramatically inferior,
IMO some Brits with semi-impenetrable accents, although I am gradually starting to understand their version of English.

Bill

 

[Ole_270]

Happy Anniversary CZ93X62, ours is also today. 45 years. Told one of the Grandkids it's a long sentence

 

[smokeywolf]

Finally realized the difference in chips between the lathe and the mill.

The lathe makes razorblades, the mill makes needles.

Both are potentially hazardous but those little needles from the mill are amazing in their ability to stick in your skin.

Can't count the number of times I spent 1-1/2 hours driving the nearly 50 miles home on the 405 and 101 freeways with a tiny sliver of stainless poking me in the nether region all the way.

 

[462]

Don't think I ever saw Viv Elford race. Watched a lot of duels between David Hobbs and Sam Posey, in the old Formula 5000 series, and too many Can-Am drivers to mention, all on Laguna's original (and much better) track. Watched the '71 Questor Gran Prix, at the then new Ontario track, that pitted Formula 1 against Indy cars with Mario driving for Enzo and winning. Twice was able to sneak into the indoor garage area, at the Long Beach Gran Prix, and walk among the cars and drivers, which was a real treat. Watched the entire Long Beach Formula 5000 race (the track's inaugural race) sitting next to and talking with Eliot Forbes-Robinson.

 

[RBHarter]

Spent the last couple of days on the new house .
Just a little trash left inside the master bath is worse than we thought . Google doesn't seem to know Enterprise ovens ......may have to scrap the double wall ovens . In a stroke of good fortune the gifted gas stove is a drop in for the gap that was cut out of the kitchen counter and cabinets for a dishwasher that was never hooked up ....... Ms doesn't want one .
The lay out of the house had been partially altered with a "bar" pass through with a 10' window . Need a 16' 2×10 to finish opening up two dark 14×16s and 14×17 room with a half a wall of windows into more or less a 30×17 plus a 1×16 step and the light improvements are huge . When that dark paneling is gone it'll be almost livable and one will hardly notice the arch . Being otherwise untouched 1964 it's short on outlets , light fixtures and long on 3 way switches for the lights that are there .

 

[fiver]

man I gotta start the Mustang more often.
it took me like 18 hrs to trickle charge the battery enough to start it up.
it fired right up like I had just drove it this morning though, no smoke, no click clack, no starting fluid, just wirr-wirr ruuum.
had to go put about 30 psi In all the tires too.

 

[popper]

Good luck Waco, tried that in base, yuk. Put the casting stuff on the shelf, have all I need until cooler weather.