Glen and fellow Listers,
Sounds like a great drive! Hope you can get those pictures up on a
site. I, for one, would love to see them.
(If they have already appeared on a site, my apologies; have been 'off
air' for the last few days, and am now wading my way through a mountain
of mail).
Hope you all had a great Yule. Here's looking forward to the New Year!
Ron in Ireland, where we has just 3" of snow yest. Took the daily driver
out. Had fun doing 60, when <everybody> else was doing 35. Lovely slides
and tested out the ABS big-time. Now what was that thread about.......?
;-))
Keep your foot down, and the revs up!
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At 18:34 24/12/00 -0800, you wrote:
>Wow! what a great ride. I packed up some tools, the jack, a large cup of
>coffee, bundled up with a thick sweater, jacket, wind breaker, leather
>gloves, wool hat, and for good measure, a muffler (knitted, not welded).
>Though the weather was forboding, with a thick fog bank hiding the hills, I
>set off at about 9 AM.
>
>There was practically no one on the roads and I went as fast or slow as I
>felt at the moment. Once up into the fog I had to use the wipers which
>functioned beautifully(they better after spending a whole week completely
>rebuilding them top to bottom). I stopped briefly to photograph the MGA
>hulk rusting in the weeds at the top of one hill, and headed around Lake
>Berryessa. In and out of heavy overcast, wipers on, wipers off, I raced
>around the lake without meeting one car. Climbing up to Pope Valley, the
>overcast eased a bit and I was able to photograph "Litto's Hubcap Ranch".
>Its actually a California Landmark now, plaque and all. The old guy died in
>1985 way into his nineties. The place is amazing with over 2000 hubcaps
>adorning every inch of fence around the entire property. Sculptures of
>hubcaps, hubcaps inset into the driveway. He even surrounded the state
>landmark plaque with a shrine of hubcaps. NO! I will not look for rare LBC
>hubcaps for you. There are three dogs that discourage you from getting too
>close to the fences. But if I saw a few good Morris caps.......
>
>Motoring over Big Canyon road to Clear Lake was great on the tiny
>untravelled one lane road. A short dash on the big highway and a right turn
>down Cache Creek Canyon led to a bummer of a downhill with a rice rocket
>ahead that would rip the straights and block on the curves where the Sprite
>ate him alive. Luckily he turned in at the Indian Bingo at Rumsey and the
>road was mine the rest of the way home.
>
>The car ran great, about 28MPG, turbo whining on demand. Other than very
>cold ears and the taste of old coffee on my teeth, I was in heaven.
>
>If some lister knows of a site where I can post my pictures for free, I'll
>get them up right away.
>
>Regards,
>Glen Byrns
>'59 Bugeye
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