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> Lone Pine Autocross y fiesta!, Day one.....
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post May 21 2006, 07:54 PM
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The weather sucked, too hot or too cold, always windy with grit blowing around.
The track surface was OK, I guess, but I never did get the hang of transitioning from asphalt to grass to cow manure to sand in the same turn. And that was on the proper line. If you deviated, you really got in the bad stuff (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
The 'banquet' dinner food was pretty bad (what was in those string beans?)
I'm in for next year (IMG:style_emoticons/default/piratenanner.gif)

But the people were great. I didn't see the midnight race between Allan and Aaron, but it must have been pretty good considering the amount of Caz that was consumed. The beater challenge and rental car class were fun to watch.

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post May 21 2006, 08:01 PM
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Ron looking happy, Aaron hiding his face, and the event chairperson.

Tony took tons of car pix for those of you interestested in that sort of thing.


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post May 21 2006, 08:06 PM
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Oh, I have your event shirt Allan. Red towel. You or Tony?
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post May 21 2006, 08:36 PM
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QUOTE(Howard @ May 21 2006, 07:06 PM) *

Red towel. You or Tony?



Thanks for grabbing the shirt.

If it's red it's Tony's...
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post May 21 2006, 09:11 PM
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"ron swallows"
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howie - did they happen to sell xtra shirts?
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post May 21 2006, 09:36 PM
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No, but thanks for the $20 (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
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post May 21 2006, 09:46 PM
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hah. use it or lose it (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) should give it to joe for the food (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

anyway... a couple of pics from the ride out there...

just the three of us for miles on end....


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post May 21 2006, 10:26 PM
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I finally got home at 1 pm today. I left this morning at just before 8 am and right before the Via Princesa offramp of the 14 freeway in Newhall, my truck's ignition decides to crap out on me in a bad way. I managed to coast off the freeeway onto the offramp and about an our later I was on my way back home in the cab of a tow truck. A quick trip to Pep boys and 10 minutes later, the BEATRuck was back in service. (new cap and rotor)

I had a great time over all on this trip. Going up Friday was a lot of slow traffic driving, but I met up with Allan in Mojave and we had a quick bite to eat at Carls Jr. or some place like that. From that point on the drivng was more scenic and adventurous as we passed through the gauntlet of high winds and sandblasting.

Setting up camp in the wind was actually not too bad, toast helped me set up the tent and get stuff staked down.

The party at Neverland (aka Joe's RV) was a lot of fun, even though I was pretty worn out by that point. My friends from the UCSB sports car club (now almost all almuni) came ove and found me. These guys have been doing Lone Pine for quite a number of years now and they obviously knew how to set stuff up and had a nice fire going.

Around 1 am I hear a big deisel engine outside the tent and the sound of Allan saying "HOLY SHIT." So naturally I peak out and the F-crowd had shown up. These guys fit in to the Lone Pine quite poorly. They arrived with a $350,000+ RV/bus towing an enclosed trailer, which we later found out was carrying a race prepped F355 (which never ended up driving on the track). The other vehicle they brought was a prepared 350Z which was actually pretty slow, especially compared to the shifter cart which I beieve took TTOD.

I spent most of Saturday taking pictures. I stood just near the first big turn going into the small straightaway. My skin and eyes were treated to a nice sandblasting. At times it was literally a bit hard to stand up in the wind!! The rest of the day was spent inside Neverland where Joe seemed to be thoroughly enjoying pretty much everything and provided some most excllent Chili which proceeded to put everyone to sleep.

I'm defintiely going back next year, though I will come prepared for the wind and heat and will be driving! The BMW 2002 crowd made a very excellent showing. I'm definitely up for working on a beater class car.

The great part of this event is that everything from a shifter cart, to $350 beaters, to V8 powered Datsuns, to Ferraris show up, everyone is there simply to have a good time, and the elements kick your ass.

Thanks again to Joe for the excellent accomodations, Howard for the shower use, and for everyone else showing up to this event!

-Tony


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post May 22 2006, 06:25 AM
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Tony.....you forgot to mention how Allan made friends with International Motorsports (Ferrari & Nissan) by calling them "Terrorists" at 2 am in the morning. The rest of the conversation was in several differents languages...none of which anyone understood.

It was really fun watching them start the "F" car, letting it idle for a min or so and then shutting it off. You actually lied....they did drive it....from the pits to tech and back into the trailer.
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post May 22 2006, 02:51 PM
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Some Videos. Ron and I did these on a still cam video function, so not great quality. Don't knock yourself out if you have dial up.
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post May 22 2006, 02:55 PM
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Landmines in the camp:
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Howie's Pit Crew gets serious
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post May 22 2006, 02:58 PM
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After a day being bead blasted (Toast's term)

http://www.thehowardagency.com/914/lonepine026.mov

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post May 22 2006, 03:00 PM
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post May 22 2006, 04:20 PM
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i have a few videos of allan and howard running.. sound is horrible.

maybe ill email em to howard to host
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post May 22 2006, 04:24 PM
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The tilt you see of the motor home in the picture above is from the wind.
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post May 22 2006, 04:26 PM
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anyone lose a "chair bag"

i have an extra one in my car. bright blue
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post May 22 2006, 04:30 PM
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Aaron: Toast.
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post May 22 2006, 04:32 PM
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Aaron: Toast.
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grooobie....

thanks joe.

and joe,
thanks for an awesome hangout pad, party, and food. you are by far the wildest 914-er there is.

AA you rock!
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post May 22 2006, 04:32 PM
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anyone lose a "chair bag"

i have an extra one in my car. bright blue


Not me. Though next time if you want to start a colelction of random stuff you could set up a huge net at the end of the track. You'd collect all kinds of things. Hats, papers, rear axles, engine blocks, etc. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

-Tony
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post May 22 2006, 05:18 PM
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Yeh Aaron, ya musta thought it was a condom in your size after the 1AM run in the Cassadores 2.7L sixer. Now clean it afore ya gives it back.....Yaaaarrrrrgh!
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