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> Hillclimb: My Car's Sibling - Enjoy!, Course Record
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post Jul 30 2016, 06:55 AM
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This car is two years newer than mine - great ride along! You Hillclimb folks are nuts! Talking about submarining an Armco barrier... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

PS: I saw Bob Saville's car on the return line...looks fun and scary fast.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDH17AU3xJ0


Saville - Good job, Bob!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC36Maqg1ds


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post Jul 30 2016, 10:05 AM
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QUOTE(Reverend Troublemaker @ Jul 30 2016, 05:55 AM) *

This car is two years newer than mine - great ride along! You Hillclimb folks are nuts! Talking about submarining an Armco barrier... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

PS: I saw Bob Saville's car on the return line...looks fun and scary fast.

T


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDH17AU3xJ0


Saville - Good job, Bob!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC36Maqg1ds




Looks like a pretty fast hill. Like the videos.

We're not crazy, honest..

BTW that hill displays the classic issue with hillclimbs. The shadows from the trees make the course very difficult to read, especially at speed. That course reminds me of the Hoopa Hill Climb, where the shadows on the road, which change by the hour, makes it difficult to know where you are.

The solution of course is polarized sun glasses. Magic really.
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Regarding sunglasses and visors...wear them and keep it down!!!

A couple years ago, I flipped up my visor on the cool down lap (with glasses on) - a GT3 was roughly 100 yards in front of me. I felt something "go into" my left eye 2/3 through the lap. Nearly the worst experience physically in my life. I thought it might "work its way out" - not! Five days later I was in the hospital having that piece of carbon pulled out of my cornea.

It was totally debilitating, trust me! Wear glasses and keep the visor down until you shut down. Beyond the benefits of vision is actually keeping it!

Thanks for the reminder Randal...as an aside.

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QUOTE(Reverend Troublemaker @ Aug 1 2016, 05:30 AM) *

Regarding sunglasses and visors...wear them and keep it down!!!

A couple years ago, I flipped up my visor on the cool down lap (with glasses on) - a GT3 was roughly 100 yards in front of me. I felt something "go into" my left eye 2/3 through the lap. Nearly the worst experience physically in my life. I thought it might "work its way out" - not! Five days later I was in the hospital having that piece of carbon pulled out of my cornea.

It was totally debilitating, trust me! Wear glasses and keep the visor down until you shut down. Beyond the benefits of vision is actually keeping it!

Thanks for the reminder Randal...as an aside.

Tony



Great message for the dash! VISOR DOWN UNTIL SHUT DOWN
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QUOTE(Reverend Troublemaker @ Aug 1 2016, 05:30 AM) *

Regarding sunglasses and visors...wear them and keep it down!!!

A couple years ago, I flipped up my visor on the cool down lap (with glasses on) - a GT3 was roughly 100 yards in front of me. I felt something "go into" my left eye 2/3 through the lap. Nearly the worst experience physically in my life. I thought it might "work its way out" - not! Five days later I was in the hospital having that piece of carbon pulled out of my cornea.

It was totally debilitating, trust me! Wear glasses and keep the visor down until you shut down. Beyond the benefits of vision is actually keeping it!

Thanks for the reminder Randal...as an aside.

Tony



I tried to buy Allen's car, when it needed an engine, but not successfully.
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Who's Allen? What was his car?

Tony

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QUOTE(Reverend Troublemaker @ Aug 1 2016, 05:30 AM) *

Regarding sunglasses and visors...wear them and keep it down!!!

A couple years ago, I flipped up my visor on the cool down lap (with glasses on) - a GT3 was roughly 100 yards in front of me. I felt something "go into" my left eye 2/3 through the lap. Nearly the worst experience physically in my life. I thought it might "work its way out" - not! Five days later I was in the hospital having that piece of carbon pulled out of my cornea.

It was totally debilitating, trust me! Wear glasses and keep the visor down until you shut down. Beyond the benefits of vision is actually keeping it!

Thanks for the reminder Randal...as an aside.

Tony



I tried to buy Allen's car, when it needed an engine, but not successfully.

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QUOTE(Cracker @ Sep 1 2016, 02:29 PM) *

Who's Allen? What was his car?

Tony

QUOTE(Randal @ Sep 1 2016, 04:51 PM) *

QUOTE(Reverend Troublemaker @ Aug 1 2016, 05:30 AM) *

Regarding sunglasses and visors...wear them and keep it down!!!

A couple years ago, I flipped up my visor on the cool down lap (with glasses on) - a GT3 was roughly 100 yards in front of me. I felt something "go into" my left eye 2/3 through the lap. Nearly the worst experience physically in my life. I thought it might "work its way out" - not! Five days later I was in the hospital having that piece of carbon pulled out of my cornea.

It was totally debilitating, trust me! Wear glasses and keep the visor down until you shut down. Beyond the benefits of vision is actually keeping it!

Thanks for the reminder Randal...as an aside.

Tony



I tried to buy Allen's car, when it needed an engine, but not successfully.



Allen Skillicorn is the driver of that red DSR running up the hill.
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Ahh. The fella who owned it before him was totally lost - had the car all out of kilter and appeared to be in over his head. The cars only silver lining was the RillTech engine - at the time.

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