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RE: Track Day @Thunderhill, Dec 14th

To: <jake@codeworm.com>, <ibisbike@yahoo.com>, <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
Subject: RE: Track Day @Thunderhill, Dec 14th
From: <CMerritt@luminous.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 22:39:45 -0800
The C&D that just arrived in the mail placed the 350Z at the top in both 
overall score and lap times against the Audi TT 1.8T Quattro, Mustang Mach 1, 
and S2000.  

It's only $173/day on the weekend, wouldn't be that hard to collect a few 
co-drivers and try it out...

-Carl


-----Original Message-----
From: Jake Hodges [mailto:jake@codeworm.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 6:07 PM
To: Paul S (#51 STS); ba-autox@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: Track Day @Thunderhill, Dec 14th


I've had a little experience with them now.. My friend Nathan in Santa 
Barbara just got one, and he's totally in love with it.  He describes it as 
a beast.  I'm trying to get him up here for an autocross by convincing him 
he could probably trade fun runs for something different.. Like maybe a Cobra..

I also stopped by the BMW club's track event at Sears Point last weekend to 
take pictures of a friend.  A guy from the east coast flew out and 
"borrowed" a 350Z with a 6-speed transmission for the weekend, and he and 
the folks who got rides with him were very impressed.  He bashed the stock 
tires for being even more pathetic than they would have imagined and he 
laughed about the absurd lack of cargo capacity for a car of it's 
size.  Other than that, he had nothing bad to say, and he mentioned the 
impressive torque several times in our short conversation...  Not bad for a 
BMW zealot at a BMW track event.

When we started prying plastic bits off, we discovered that the brace 
inside the "trunk bridge" is indeed large enough to justify that huge 
plastic monstrosity that sucks up all the room.  It's just a huge(!) 
body-colored square hunk of metal that connects the shock towers.. Perhaps 
they'd intended it to be a useful spot for mounting a fifth-wheel hitch.

I'll keep working on Nathan!

Jake

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