Aint that the car that Snoopy drove?

Ive been to both and thought they were nice, but my favorite spot in Michygan is Ann Arbor.

Bite em again Jake. Thatll teach him to hide the good stuff.


Morning yall. And since Chinchy isnt here yet Ill pull his slack...

Yo!

 

Awesome, conveniently placed right next to the breath mints.

~Rob

 

is that kinda like Kopi Luwak coffee

 

Well back in tucson for now but hope to be on the road again soon this time in the mountains and maybe north some got coffee made and bought fresh krispy kremes. no bob yet we will see bout that




wake up bobby rise and shine!!!!!!!!!!

payback a pain
well got to fix the dodge today fuel heater is leakin so this will be fun!

 

Mornin' all!

Headed out beaver trapping with my neighbor this am. Truck is loaded, coffee cup is filled and I'm ready. Gonna grab some breakfast and hit the river.

 

MORNING FELLOW DTRotarions>

warmed up a bit 18º and sunny

back in the 60`s i was a member of SSCA anf as a member i ran several events - jim-kana`s - were my specalty -
some of these events were held in hay fields - some in parking lots - some on local race tracks some on actual road corses -in the winter many events were held on lakes (ice races ) because of the diffrence in surfaces it was necessary to set up suspention & tires diffrently for each corse
did quite well at them-
because of the sucess i was having i got the chance to drive several veicles in some of these events -
Citrone was one - thay had an amazing suspention system - you could controle road heigth - these cars were amazingly stable -
Saab was an interesting veicle to drive at these events & quite popular in the sedan class.
several of the members were GM engeneers this lead to gm subsidising them and then other companys began doing the same -it really made it difficult for the individual driver that didn`t have support of a company !
all this support was unoficial and not like a nascar sponsership - GM had engineers driving Citrone- Saab-BMW as well as corvair -corvette`s Porsha`s were helped by Aer-Hart-Hart-Don -porsh dealer from Detroit - there were some drivers that recived help from BMC dealer Sport`s Car`s INC - thats where my help came from . it finally after 20 yrs, became two expensive to contrinue competing .
It was a euneek experiance and picked up a lot of ideas from seeing what the diffrent features of the varity of cars had to offer .

Thats where a lot of my goofy ideas come from on modifying cars >
Claude

 

Claude, your comments bring back many memories. When I was growing up,(many lives ago, another country) we used to attend gymkhana's. Lots of fun. Another sport was hill climbing using modified cars. One of the cars that consistently beat others was the old British Mini Minor with modified engines. One of them that did quite well was one that had an engine in the front as well as the back - two engines and 4 wheel drive.

 

Stan the car i started out with was a Hillman minx - only real mod i did was convert it to floor shift from colum- found it really difficult to use 4 speed colum shifter driving these events as the emergansy brake ( With the lock removed ) was a part of sliding the rear of the car .

man those Saab`s ( 3 cyl 2-cycle ) at the time were hot in sedan class

FUNNY THOUGHT WHAT WE WERE DONG THEN THEY NOW CALL THE DRIFT

MINI -MINOR - WASN`T THAT A MORRIS ? AS I REMBER

 

Claude! I made it. I survived. I ate enough crab for both of us. Well, gotta check out of Vegas and head to Northern CA for a few weeks than back to Alaska. Wont have internet for awhile so talk to you later.
My kind of beer!

 

A Minx? That gutless flathead 4 cyl? Or was that an overhead cam? Can't remember. Yes, the Mini Minor was Morris.
In my teens I ended up with a Triumph Mayflower. I called it my mini Rolls. Now there is a car that the majority of you will not know. Cut the roof off and made it into a "convertible". Never did make a ragtop for it. Did move the steering column shifter to the opposite side of the column which reversed the shift pattern. Dem were de days!

 

bark> DRIVE SAFEE - FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND THERE IS A LOT OF SNOW IN THE PASSES >
LOOK FORWARD TO TALKING WHEN YA GET BACK ON !
CLAUDE

 

I DO REMBER THOSE - WASN`T THAT AN 1100 CC ENGINE ?
MINX - FLAT HEAD 4 CYL - SOME HOW HEAD GOT DECKED
INTAKE & EXAUSR GOT CLEANED UP REAL GOOD AND MUCH LARGER EXAUST -
PUT A LARGER SU CARB ON IT IT RAN PRETTY GOOD .
ON A COUNTRY ROAD (BLACKTOP ) WAS RUNNING AT 90+ THE HOOD CAME UP RIPPED OUT THE BOLTS HOLDING IT (NEVER BROKE THE WINSHIELD) WENT FLYING OUT IN A FIELD > HAD TO GO BACK & RETRIEVE IT
BELIEVE ME ITS AN EXPERIANCE YOULL NEVER FORGET

 

Bark, have a safe trip and don't forget us here at DTR'

Claude, believe or not, but I know what you are talking about. I even know SU carbs and can even tune dual and even three SU's.

Used to also own 1958 Mark 8 Jag. What a dog that was!. It had so-so performance, but the big thing was that it required endless maintenance. It had dual shocks up front, but they were always dying. Brakes? What brakes? I converted it to dual exhaust using 2" brass tubes from front to back with Massey Ferguson mufflers. Got the tubing free from the local sugar mill that re-tubed one of their boilers. It had dual gas tanks and need both of them. Man, was that thing a gas guzzler!

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...m=350303998063
HERE YA GO STAN - MINNY ROALS
SU CARBS ( CLOSE YOUR EYES AND IMAGINE (PUCKATA-PUCKATA) LOVED THAT SOUND ESPICALLY ON ONES WITH TWO OR THREE

AS LONG AS WE ARE GOING DOWN MEMORY LANE _
THINK IT WAS 1964 0R 65
JIM HALL VOLVO P1800 SCCA CHAMPION - WASNT DESIDED UNTIL FINAL RACE AT RIVERSIDE-
#2 ROBERT PETRIE -MGA TWIN CAM 1600 - BOB WAS A GOOD FRIEND OF MINE & OWNER OF SPORTS CARS INC.
HIS MECHANIC - BILL AKERMAN - THIS GUY WAS EXELANT MECHANIC

 

pokin head in.....and leaving. no comment for ofc marc because a guy searching for beaver is perfectly normal..... in alaska...........

Bark my ol friend- be good and behave if ya can't. what time/mileage is that anyways, going through canada? 11 hours?