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Re: weekend car show (some roadster content)

To: mtyler <mtyler@hctc.net>
Subject: Re: weekend car show (some roadster content)
From: Thomas - Sweden <csp311@telia.com>
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2002 17:50:47 +0200
Check out the cam-chain design on that Maserati V6
and you will find the U20 chains to be very uncomplicated.

Thomas

mtyler wrote:

> Happy Monday, Listers,
>      I entered my 70 1600 in a local (Boerne TX) open car show yesterday.
>  Got a few questions and comments, but was put over in a corner,
> fourtnately, not by the porta potties.
>      I was one of 3 enries in the "foreign" category, along with a
> Maserati powered Citroen and a nice old Mercedes.  I had easily the
> smallest car there, as most of the entries were gigantic old chevrolets
> (pronounced Shiv-A-Lay around here).
>      The Citroen was truly bizarre!  A Maserati V-6 with a transaxle in
> front of the motor.  A long shaft ran the accessories (a/c alt hydraulic
> pump for the suspension (!)  ).
>      There was a flatbed tow-truck which must have been ewaring the
> entire JC whitney catalog.  More chrome geegaws in one place than I've
> ever seen.  The flatbed was painted as an American flag, which leads me
> to wonder if a car leaks oil on the flag-flatbed, is the truck owner
> obliged to burn his truck? ;^)
>      There were other interesting entries, a Hudson pickup, which looked
> like half a late 40's sedan with a bed stuck on, and a Kaiser,
> beautifully kept and restored with a widow's peak in the windshield.
>      Not a huge fan of street rods, which was a large segment of the
> entries, and only one lowrider .  Garish, but less predictable than the
> street rods.
>      I didn't stay for the awards, so i don't know who won what.
>
> -Marc
>
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