July 2015

  • Sunday Rain-Out, Friday Heat

    BTW, the Dodge Colt?  It has a Mopar 440 crammed into, with full roll cage…   Well, woke up early this AM to thunderstorms and a check of the weather radar revealed a second line of storms working its way towards St Louis. Sure ’nuff, got the email from Racer Steve that what with the…

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  • July Cars & Coffee

    How’s this?  Two blue Spits with a blue Miata and Greg in (of course) blue…   Pretty much perfect weather this AM for Cars & Coffee, about 260 cars on hand including a good contingent from SLTOA: two of the club’s three blue spits (Greg and Bob), Chairman of the Board Dave’s TR3, the TR6s…

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  • Another Friday Night

    Made the run to the Big Bend/Kirkwood Sonic again tonight and again, a good turnout with a lot of really nice cars.  This week yours truly carried the flag for the LBCs but it was still fun and the gathering even saw an Italian contingent in the form of a Ferrari Mondial convertible. On the…

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  • One Man’s Treasure…

    No, the owner’s name was not Max Rockatansky   Seen at the Sonic Cruise earlier this evening.   A bunch of us watched him pull in and attempted to identify the various cars which, er, contributed to the project; best we could tell, he started with a ’57 Ford and added the grill and surrounds from…

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  • Sonic Friday Night

    I tell you, the-every-Friday night car cruise at the Big Bend & Kirkwood Sonic – organized by the Outsiders Car Club – is a royal hoot.  Not a big group, perhaps 40-50, cars but quite an eclectic collection with a lot of friendly people. Three of us carried the LBC flag tonight (four if you…

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  • On the Track

    Okay, first autocross in well over a year and I’ll be the first to admit, my reflexes aren’t what they were 44 years when I first started running events like this in Tucson, AZ BUT, I can say this: I did NOT have the oldest car there (that was Dave’s ’71 TR6) and I was…

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  • PMCF

    Here comes Dan…that’s a McLaren on his six.   Did the post-maintenance check flight with the TR8 Friday night following our last session and hoo-hah, the car ran good (well, it is a TR8, so it tends to buck and snort and make loud obnoxious noises). Even made a point of stopping at my favorite…

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