Well, that beats Vegas to Sac.
Mark
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> From: Bill Woodruff <woodruff@fail.com>
> To: Henry Frye <thefryes@iconn.net>; triumphs@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Goin' to Stowe
> Date: Thursday, September 18, 1997 2:16 PM
>
> >
> >I wonder if there is an award for the longest distance driven on a one
> >day old head gasket? ;-)
>
> I'd definitely be a contender. When my wife moved to California from
> Michigan 2 years ago, she took the Spit/GT6. I decided that I would
> rebuild the engine before we left. One disaster followed another (mostly
> trouble getting a new set of pistons) and I finished the rebuild about
8pm
> on the day we were supposed to leave. I took the car out for a short
drive
> (5 miles) and then packed it up and left for California at about 10pm.
> About 4 days later we arrived safely in San Francisco.
>
> Remember the summer where all the people were dropping dead in Chicago
from
> the heat? Yep, my timing was perfect; we traveled during that week. I
> guess I was trying to test the marginal cooling system in addition to a
> fresh engine. I remember little of that drive except that even with the
> top down, the breeze felt like a blast furance.
>
> William Woodruff woodruff@fail.com
> San Francisco, CA
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