Check for our entry will be in the mail today.

Sending PM, in.

We had a member of our auto x club die in his garage 2 seasons ago, working in one of his race cars. Motor running, did not leave a window open... We have done some fund raising and do a yearly new student driver school, similar to a "tire rack" teen driving school, in his memory. I designed the curriculum, all the instructors, workers are club members, we charge 20/head, and loose our shirts on the cost of the track rental, but the club sucks up this cost in our yearly budget.

I regret that I can't get to the build off, but can offer some $$$ in the form of this donation. Great idea on the trans raffle.

Man, that is a tragedy

Ottox914, thanks for your donation and for sharing your story. Life is very short, too short, and when tragedies happen, we all feel it. Good luck with your DE next year. Post it here on the world site, and maybe we can add some 914s!

Thanks again.

BTW - 100%.

Phil Ethier? I thought he died of a heart attack?

100%!? In like 3 days? WOW.

Yup, I have confirmed that we have hit the $1000 mark so the box will be raffled soon on a date yet TBD. If you want in, you are quickly running out of time. PM RobW or Kansas914 if you are sending a check so we can wait until it arrives to draw. Thank you all very much for making this raffle a smashing success! Thanks to Andy for donating this gear box and helping with the rebuild, and to RobW and the rest of his helpers at the clinic for helping with the rebuild. This will rank up there with the Jenny build-off and the Korijo van buy. I love this place

Not Phil, he is very much alive and kicking. 2 yrs ago his mother passed, and concluding the estate probably took 10 years off his life. Last year, when it was FINALLY wrapped up, he ended up with a sum of money. And if you know Phil, and his love of old cars, british cars, and Lotus, you can only have one guess as to what he did... a Caterham, with an authentic dry sump 1600 kent motor, titled as a '74 lotus 7, making it vintage correct for some of the "old" events in our state, which consider vintage to be '74 and older. That car on 205's is a force on the auto cross course. It travels in an enclosed trailer pulled by a suburban. Phil is finally riding in style with the car of his dreams behind. As sad as many of us were when Paul died, seeing Phil re-born with the stress of the estate gone, and him back in the seat of a brit-mobile proves all is right with the universe again.

I gotta get that turbo motor done, and go Caterham hunting. Mine's still a '73, so I'll have him by one year and plenty of HP, but I'll be 800 or so heavier. Should be a blast. Sure hope I can win a trans to put that power down...

Ahh yes! Paul Weidner. I think as I recall, he was a British car guy too. My apologies to Phil for the premature obituary.

The DE is for young drivers, who have passed drivers ed, and are in their first year or 2 of driving. We take them on a track, and set up threshold braking, slalom, panic stop, avoidance, and skid pad exercises, each preceded by a short classroom session, with an instructor in the car for each driving session. The students drive their street cars, on street tires. We want them to experience what happens at the limit of traction, how to react, and what happens when you really loose it. (wet skid pad). We encourage an active look out, good driving position in the car, and have a session on knowing your car- how to check air in tires, oil level, where's the spare, jack, owners manual, what the dash lights mean. Its alot of work, and you never know if what you are doing will really make a difference, but at the end of the day, the confidence level of the kids is so much greater, you have just GOT to believe they will be better street drivers, and you hope that if a car is coming at you out of control, its one of your students, so they will react properly and no paint will be damaged.

The BMW Club does this too. I brought my oldest boy with a couple of his school friends. The best thing a parent can do for your Teen driver.

mike do i need to replace my PP payment with a check? do i need to send money to cover the fee? rich

(Very cool Mike and everyone~!)

While I realize that paypal are a bunch of money grubbers, that's still my preferred method of payment for this kind of thing. I can't find the paypal address now that the first post is edited. It might be in this thread somewhere still, but I couldn't find it. Please...

Disregard my last as I found this post.

I want to send paypal anyway. It's quick and easy. Can I not do that at all now? IMO we shouldn't limit the options for payment. Just post the extra cost for paypal?

payment sent.

Nope. You are good. If anyone needed to do anything we would be contacting them.

Gint, we are not allowed to use PP for raffles. They blocked the account until I edited out the option. In the first post is the contact info for who to talk to about donating: RobW is a good start

Gotcha... b@stards

I'll mail a check to Mike.

Make sure to let him know it is incoming so we dont do the raffle without ya

Does this mean the odds are changing now??? he he he

I just PMed RobW as well, so I'm in! Thanks-

For anyone wanting to use an alternate payment method other than a check contact Tat2dphreak by pm. Let him know who you are and where your from and he will send you instructions on how to get in on this. If you can't contact him contact me and I will get you hooked up in short order.

Will you count me in even though you've hit the goal? I'll mail a check to Mike Morman today.

This is awesome. I'm really thrilled that we hit our goal so quickly.

Just a question, does Buttercup have a good rebuilt tranny?
If not, and if I win, I'd be happy to donate my winnings to the cause.

Zach

Hi Zach,

Nice gesture

Dr Evil was interviewing for his residency in Wichita a month or so ago and made time to get to Garden City and rebuild the transaxle - so the answer is "you betcha" Buttercup with be sporting an EvilWerks gearbox!

Cheers!

We are OK. The original funding is OK, and we are just using other means now to collect additional donations. Thanks again, RobW

Tickets are still being sold. I am talking behind the scenes to see when we will cut it off and do the draw. Stay tuned!

For anyone wanting to use an alternate payment method other than a check contact Tat2dphreak by pm. Let him know who you are and where your from and he will send you instructions on how to get in on this. If you can't contact him contact me and I will get you hooked up in short order.

Checks can be sent to:

Mike Moorman
816 Sandwedge Ct
Andover, KS 67002



We will lock this thread at 12:00 pm on December 15th and shut this thing down. The thread will remain locked until the drawing.

All,

First everyone, thank you for getting on board here. Specially the Doc. You are a king among men.
I just want everyone to understand this auction was not a fund raiser in the usual sense. Because this is a "Build Off" We only wanted to cover some very basic expenses. Everyone who ever put on an event knows there are serious costs associated with them. We had a very small target. We met our goal and covered the small cost projection we budgeted for this event. That was our only reason for the auction.

For anyone still wanting to get in on the auction we have an alternate payment method. You can contact Tat2dphreak by pm. Let him know who you are and where your from and he will send you instructions on how to get in on this.

If you can't contact him, contact me and I will get you hooked up in short order.

Checks can be sent to:

Mike Moorman
816 Sandwedge Ct
Andover, KS 67002



We will lock this thread at 12:00 pm (noon) CST on December 15th and shut this thing down. The thread will remain locked. We want to keep the chatter out of this thread until after the drawing. We may open this thread back up long enough to post the screen names of the people that made it into the drawing.

The Drawing will be done on Christmas Eve.

Great Luck!

Rick,

sent a PM
thanks
brant

Draw sooner! My car's in the shop for a new clutch, and I plan to win that tranny!!

Still collecting checks...

1 HOUR until this thread is locked!

I'm in for one ticket. I will send my check in the mail this afternoon.

Eric Read

Thanks Eric - you are in - but please drop it in the mail today - it needs to be postmarked with today's date.

Thanks. I will run it over to the post office this afternoon.

Eric

Payment sent to Mike; thanks! (correction: I see it will lock shortly and I will go with the Paypal by Tat2phreak instead; Thanks W! )

45 minutes til my last post. I asked an admin to lock this at Noon today. If your check is post marked before midnight tonight your in. Same goes for the "other payment method"

Remember: If you still want in contact Tat2dphreak via PM. Send him your info, name, address, screen name and amount you want to send. He will give you instructions on how to proceed. But only til Midnight tonight!

I'm in also, What a great cause... Thanks for hosting such a great community, and everybody going the extra mile to help people out in soo many different ways. Every one have a great Holiday

last call! err bump

Lock it!

In addition to locking the thread, you may want to pull the banner ad that points to it!

It's not noon yet!?

Ya, is that noon EST, Central, MST, PST? Its 1:30 here

The above was from an early post by Rick. But I think the admins have the real last word!

I missed that post ...

Now where's that locked button?
Andy

Sorry Rick! I was in a last minute meeting.