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Posted by: iamchappy Jun 22 2009, 04:41 PM

http://www.nordstern.org/NewsDetail.asp?newsID=33

http://www.nordstern.org/EventID.asp?EventID=581

Posted by: tdiddy Jun 22 2009, 05:30 PM

I think my dad and I are planning on swinging by to check it out, but unfortunately not in the 914 yet.

Posted by: rick 918-S Jun 22 2009, 06:39 PM

1) I haven't pulled my engine yet.
2) I worked my ass off at the lake for the last two weeks
3) I missed the German Car Fest
4) I just cooked the wife a nice dinner and bought her a guitar today

I'm going down to ask right now.

Chappy, Are you enttying the car show?

I'll call Kelly, Paul and Bill too. I don't have anyone elses number.

Posted by: iamchappy Jun 22 2009, 06:50 PM

I am but i dont know what class, there are many to choose from, street car or car show class.

Cant decide what shoes to wear - Phone Dials or Fuchs.

Posted by: rick 918-S Jun 22 2009, 07:08 PM

Cool! I just cleared it. Were staying over at Kelly's house Saturday night. He said the event starts like 7:00-7:30 am. I guess there's a photo shoot too. I left a message for Paul and Bill.

You should wear the 928 style "Dials" and park next to me. Just don't let the judges put us in the same class. I don't want my dirty lil Alien to get spanked. JK

Posted by: iamchappy Jun 22 2009, 07:41 PM

Dials or Fuchs

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Posted by: rick 918-S Jun 22 2009, 07:44 PM

Tough call! Start a pole!

Posted by: iamchappy Jun 22 2009, 07:54 PM

Rick i just remembered, you cant go till September......

Posted by: rick 918-S Jun 22 2009, 08:11 PM

QUOTE(iamchappy @ Jun 22 2009, 05:54 PM)

Rick i just remembered, you cant go till September......

Ya, I can't believe it either..

sandy and I have put around 10,000 miles on the car since the Huntsville RCR last fall.

Posted by: tdiddy Jun 22 2009, 11:21 PM

Excellent I get to see the alien!

As for the wheels...I don't know they both look excellent.. what about phone dials on one side and the fuchs on the other? ha!

Posted by: rick 918-S Jun 23 2009, 07:58 AM

QUOTE(tdiddy @ Jun 22 2009, 09:21 PM)

Excellent I get to see the alien!

As for the wheels...I don't know they both look excellent.. what about phone dials on one side and the fuchs on the other? ha!

I was thinkin that same thing....

Posted by: rick 918-S Jun 26 2009, 10:44 PM

I talked to Bill. He said he will be by to visit but didn't think his 914 is nice enough to show. Really, It's a vary nice reliable driver. If it were mine I would enter the car show for fun.

I got a pm from Paul. He said we would stop by for a few minutes. Sounds like he has a full dance card.

I also got an email from a local guy that lives near me. His name is Ross. I guess he and his son Seth are planning on coming down to check out the cars. He's building a Suby swap and was interested in Chappy's intercooler placement. Ross has a bitchin Manx with a Suby engine. Very nice work! Here's a link to his site.

http://www.specificdesign.com/meyers_manx_ii.htm

Posted by: iamchappy Jun 26 2009, 11:51 PM

"Ross has a bitchin Manx"

Yes i would say he does..... Nice work Ross....

Posted by: watsonrx13 Jun 27 2009, 06:39 AM

QUOTE(iamchappy @ Jun 27 2009, 12:51 AM)

"Ross has a bitchin Manx"

Yes i would say he does..... Nice work Ross....

Wow...

Posted by: 914Subaru Jun 27 2009, 08:48 PM

QUOTE(watsonrx13 @ Jun 27 2009, 07:39 AM)

QUOTE(iamchappy @ Jun 27 2009, 12:51 AM)

"Ross has a bitchin Manx"

Yes i would say he does..... Nice work Ross....

Wow...

Thanks.
I am very excided for the Nord Stern show tomorrow.
I am hoping to decide on solution to get air to my intercooler. The attached sketch of a roof scoop that would probably work but block the rear view mirror view.
Looks like nice weather for tomorrow.

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Posted by: iamchappy Jun 27 2009, 11:09 PM

I think a pair of small fans like i have for my car would work, duct it through a grill on trunk lid.

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Posted by: iamchappy Jun 28 2009, 07:08 AM

I'm getting ready to head out this morning, see you there...

Posted by: 914Subaru Jun 28 2009, 05:31 PM

QUOTE(iamchappy @ Jun 28 2009, 08:08 AM)

I'm getting ready to head out this morning, see you there...

Fans it is for the intercooler, that makes the most sense for my car.
Great weather today, great show, great cars, great people, my son and I had a good time. Picture of Chappy and Ricks cars, both showed great!

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Posted by: rick 918-S Jun 28 2009, 09:45 PM

Sandy and I are home from the show. Wierd stuff always happens on road trips and this one was no exception. On the way to Kelly's I pulled over on the shoulder of the road to check a highway sign and drove right into a fresh strip of tar about 3/4 " deep. I picked up gravel about 1 1/2 " thick around both right side tires. As it started to chunk off it filled the wheel wells with hunks of tar mixed gravel. We were fortunate enough to stay the night at Kelly's house. He had all the solvents and jack and tire dressing to clean the mess up.

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Posted by: rick 918-S Jun 28 2009, 09:54 PM

Kelly's Garage This morning early after we spent the evening finishing the cleaning job.

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Posted by: iamchappy Jun 28 2009, 10:07 PM

I took some pictures today i hope to post later....

Posted by: rick 918-S Jun 28 2009, 10:27 PM

Great day with good friends and nice cars. Sandy and I followed Kelly and his son Kyle. Thanks to his knowledge of the metro roads we managed to avoid the Labrya tar pits all the way to the show. Chappy and his son Olli parked right next to us. Some of the people that showed up to hang out and chat were Paul (Phoenix MN), tdiddy and his dad, Paul (lotus 65) and his daughter Soffi, Ross (914Subaru) and his son Seth and Bill (wbertho).

Chappy's car was an outragous hit! And Kelly took 2nd in the concours!

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Posted by: tdiddy Jun 28 2009, 11:53 PM

Great to see everyone! Congrats Kelly! Car looked great!

Posted by: High Path Jul 1 2009, 12:15 PM

Hi Chappy,
Thanks for taking the time to talk to me at the show. I really enjoyed seeing an example of a beautiful signal orange 914 up close in person. Hopefully one day I'll be repainting my saturn yellow car, and now signal orange is definitely back in the running as one of the options.
And thanks for reminding me about 914World. I've spent a fair amount of time at 914Club, but hadn't gotten around to registering here. More sources of info is a good thing. Looks like there are several guys from the Twin Cities area who frequent 914World.

I still haven't gotten my 914 running since I fixed it , so I suppose I'll be posting some questions here soon.

Brian

Posted by: rick 918-S Jul 1 2009, 08:48 PM

QUOTE(High Path @ Jul 1 2009, 10:15 AM)

Hi Chappy,
Thanks for taking the time to talk to me at the show. I really enjoyed seeing an example of a beautiful signal orange 914 up close in person. Hopefully one day I'll be repainting my saturn yellow car, and now signal orange is definitely back in the running as one of the options.
And thanks for reminding me about 914World. I've spent a fair amount of time at 914Club, but hadn't gotten around to registering here. More sources of info is a good thing. Looks like there are several guys from the Twin Cities area who frequent 914World.

I still haven't gotten my 914 running since I fixed it

, so I suppose I'll be posting some questions here soon.

Brian

Posted by: iamchappy Jul 1 2009, 09:12 PM

My car came in last place for any of those who wish to know.
They didn't even bother judging it........

Posted by: rick 918-S Jul 1 2009, 11:25 PM

Nord Stern is a good ole boys club. If your not a CW there is no voting. Just peoples choice. And you have to know people.

Posted by: lotus_65 Jul 2 2009, 06:05 AM

yea, some people ask "why".

but if you have to ask that, you'll never understand.

maybe the only way to show the value of your build to them (not to say you should care) is to track it, maybe get a 3rd party eval-

thefleur

Posted by: iamchappy Jul 2 2009, 11:14 AM

Rick and I may not of had consideration for best of show, but we definitely had the most interest and attention of any car there.....

Posted by: tdiddy Jul 2 2009, 01:45 PM

I came across a bunch of pics of Rick's and Chappy's rides on another local european car forum, Eurowerks.org. Unforutnately no pictures of Kelly's car. Though I do have to share this story: a little more than a year ago when I was looking for a 914 to purchase, I wanted to find a picture of one to use as my desktop on my computer at work. So I searched through the first couple of pages on google image search and I settled on this nice blue narrow bodied car. Last week I'm looking for something on the computer and come across the picture again, after taking a closer look at it I thought man that car looks familiar, wait a minute it was Kelly's car. So last summer I spent a month staring at Kelly's car everday at work.

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