[Roadsters] Backroads tour write-up, SoCal TT, Oct 11-12 '09

[pjmill at sonic.net]

Totally COOL!  Thanks for sharing!  Maybe next year there will be at least
TWO Roadster in it!

Paul

> Hooked up with a local group for a 2-day, 650 mile backroads tour from
> Los Angeles to Los Alamos (~20 miles north of Solvang) this past
> Sunday/Monday.
> Great folks, great roads, great eats.  Roadster ran like a champ (she
> got new "shoes" for this year), slight drizzle on Monday when coming
> back thru the mountains north of LA, but dry all the way home (then
> poured the next day!).  It got a might chilly at times, as I did the
> entire run top-down, but better to enjoy the sights and smells.
>
> Great group of eclectic, pre-'76 cars. I was the only roadster, although
> 302-roadster Eric was along in his classic Mini.
> A rotary spridget, a slant 6 Valiant, a couple Volvo 122's, three 510's
> (a rotary, an SR-20NA, and SR20DET!) a Maserati Bora (!!), an early
> Toyota coupe with an 1800/5-spd combo, a bugeye whose oil-line left it
> erupting in a cloud of smoke after 5 blocks, a sweet Rambler with green
> paisley headliner and dash treatment, a gorgeous Alfa coupe, a 2002 with
> a straight 6, a 58 Jag Type 1- sounded like Benny Goodman trombones
> coming out of tight corners, a Mercedes pagoda with a Buick V-6, and
> more)
>
> I drove most of the way as a wingman with a TR-8 (great sound, much like
> the 302 in Eric's car) and a later model MGB that had a single 45-Weber,
> both better drivers continually drove away from me in the twisties.
> (if only all the parts I have bought for the front end were on the car
> instead of languishing in the toolbox drawers)
> But, I have learned this is a good thing, (letting folks distance you)
> sometimes....
>
> Some pic links will show in the coming weeks.
> http://www.socaltt.com/
>
> but I think these ones are current
> http://socaltt510.shutterfly.com/
>
> Because of roadside delays (let everyone drive out from the motel, then
> had the TR-8 not start, had to rewire the fuel pump circuit for some
> unknown reason), I don't appear in anyone's on-road pictures, but the
> gearhead talk was wonderful, and the roads around the wineries in that
> part of CA are incredible. (even if I was running out of gas and
> wondering if I'd be hoofing it soon)
>
> Now she goes up on blocks for front end rebuild, with a self-imposed
> deadline of one month to completion.
>
> Happy fall roadstering,
>
> Fergus O (getting over the sore cheeks from grinning for 2 days
> straight)
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