Mike,
That much fun has got to be illegal... or at least taxable. Take care on
those icy streets. Oh, it was about 72 here yesterday. The snow plows were
working overtime....
Guy
67.5 SPL
NOROC
Tempe, AZ
Michael Poorboy wrote:
> List,
> Just got back from another quick road trip to Seattle. Left her Friday
> night with my friend he offered to take his car trailer over to pick up
> a car for me. We arrived and NWDE members Guy Selles house around
> 10:30 at night .For those of you who don't know what NWDE is they are
> an all Datsun Club in the Seattle area. I have only met guy once before
> and
> was surprised that he and his wife would let us stay there for the
> night. We
> had deluxe accomadations at their home. He had taken six months off from
> work
> to build it himself and it was fantastic. His wife made us a great
> breakfast and
> then it was of to his shop to look at his 510 and his Roadster. The 510
> is a
> BRE painted autocross car with alot of Solo street mod wins.
>
> The Roadster was under construction as he has put a shortened Mazda RX7
> rear end in it with four link suspension and coil overs on all four
> corners.
> It also has a CA18 in it. I will be doing a write up on it with pictures
> here soon.
>
> Will after several hours of BS we picked up the R180 limited slip that
> Steve had
> purchased from Guy and headed for the Casa de Glasgow. The point of my
> part
> of the trip was to buy Joanne Glasgows 73' 240Z. I wanted an easy car
> to
> autocross and drive on the street for this coming season. I was tired of
> sitting
> on the sidelines :-), and knew it would be quite sometime until In had a
> running
> Roadster again. I didn't even do a test drive ! we just loaded it on the
> trailer,
> went in for a look at Gordon's 67.5' 2000. It is still a work in
> progress as Gordon
> has been so busy with classes. New NWDE Vice President and fellow
> Nowrocer
> Robin Krause stopped by with her 79' 280ZX she had just purchased for
> her
> commuter car. It was a steal for what she paid for it.
>
> After a 5 plus hour drive through freezing fog we got the car home and
> off the trailer.
> The streets were so covered with ice you could hardly walk on them, but
> I hadn't
> driven the car yet. Hmmm !!! I thought to myself ,you better take it for
> a spin before
> you park it for the night. I just had to do it , so off I go around the
> block in freezing fog
> spinning the tires everytime I even got close to giving it any pedal. As
> soon as the ice
> melts off this morning I am going to take her for a real spin.
>
> See you all at the track !!
>
> Mike
> Nowroc
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