Drove BRP from Lynchburg to Waynesboro to visit this great resto shop recently featured in car magazine. He just got in a sweet all orig 71 911T Targa. Might sell it too. Lots of nice cars in most unlikely place.
http://www.gassmanautomotive.com/
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Drove BRP from Lynchburg to Waynesboro to visit this great resto shop recently featured in car magazine. He just got in a sweet all orig 71 911T Targa. Might sell it too. Lots of nice cars in most unlikely place.
http://www.gassmanautomotive.com/
Added petrol and performed Italian tune-up.
Days have been spectacular here in SoCal...... time to burn some gas... :)
- Yesterday at the top of Little Tujunga Canyon...
- Then over by my buddy's hanger after....
- Up in the Santa Monica mountains today...
Cheers
Met up with some friends and took a nice tour through some of the great back roads in north east San Diego county. Couser Canyon Rd, S Grade up to Palomar Mtn (photo taken at the top) East Grade back down to Mesa Grande and finished up with Highland Valley Road. Great day....Attachment 369925
Excellent Nick.... Sorry I missed it
Checked fuel lineds with airbox out while re-commissioning after winter storage ...
https://youtu.be/0H_EZ8Aon0o
This past weekend I participated in my first race weekend with VARA (and SVRA). It happened to be at Big Willow which is the POC's home racetrack, so I had the good fortune of having turned A LOT of laps there over the last few years. So instead of having to learn the racetrack I got to spend my first two sessions of the weekend studying the competition on track.
Unfortunately there weren't a lot of Porsches registered for the event, despite there being 160 cars registered overall. I think there were a total of 5 Porsches running in my group and one running in the big-bore class (3.6L engine swap). It turns out that the stiffest competition I encountered all weekend was a Lola T212 (who was 2 seconds faster during qualifying and the race) and a Datsun 240Z with a full-house 3.0L engine and one hell of a wheel man. We were running 1:30s and 1:31s during practice and the qualifying race on Saturday, and I think there was only a few tenths separating us. Unfortunately both he and I forgot our video cameras, but we were inches off each other's bumpers for the entire 25min race on Saturday ... I think we swapped positions no less than 10 times over the course of the race.
On the white flag lap I made a move around the outside of T2, but it took too much out of the already overworked tires and I couldn't make the pass stick and looped it coming out of T4 at the top of the hill. He took second and I took 3rd (first in class and second in class, respectively).
In Sunday's race it was the Datsun and I nose to tail for the first few laps (the Lola got away but, again, could only manage a 2 second gap), but my windshield blew into the car on lap 3 or 4 and I spent the remainder of the race pushing it back into place between straightaways. Despite that I still managed to lap the field (the back half I lapped twice) and took home another second in class and third overall. Not a bad weekend of racing, but along with the podium I also brought home a cold. :(
When I was pulling into the pits after the race they gave me a checkered flag for the podium finish. I stuck it out through the windshield for effect. :D
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Congratulations on a successful weekend. Nice knowing the track enough to concentrate on racing.
Too bad about the windshield....If it isn't one thing, then it's another:)
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Congrats! :cool: Yea, too bad you forgot you video camera. I would have loved to have seen it!
Here are a couple more from the weekend. In the fifth picture you can really see that windshield seal trying to get away....
Photo credit goes to John Cary ... he's a member of the S Reg and posts here from time to time. :)
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