hi dick,
on your journey home, you would have probably had better results out of OD --
more revs, less lugging.
cheers,
jerry wall
RAHosmer@aol.com wrote:
>
> Good morning Patton,
>
> Glad you arrived home safely - obviously you did allow enough time to make
> your flight. It IS interesting to put faces with names! That was a fun show,
> probably the best turnout I've seen in the four years I've gone to it. They
>do a
> GREAT job of organizing a very nice event. Spent quite a bit of time chatting
> with Len Hartnett, a really nice guy. Also David Nock.
>
> I had at least three people comment that my car looked strange because it
> "had a MkII hood emblem but did NOT have windup windows". One went so far as
>to
> remark under his breath that he did not think the car was "right"! So, you
> could have bowled me over with a feather when the awards were presented - my
>old
> rally warhorse, with rollbar and a few dents, took third (missing second by
> only one vote) in the AH3000 class, over at least eight spotless show cars. It
> WAS a "first time entry" and it WAS the only tricarb, both of which must have
> helped immensely.
>
> A fun day until my drive home, 70 miles of nursing a VERY hot car - 2500 in
> OD in the slow lane served to keep the needle stabilized at 211.5 degrees!
> Clearly I have some cooling issues to work on.
>
> Dick Hosmer
>
> Your messages not reaching the list?
> C
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