Bob Lang wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> It was a blast. Took a bunch of secondary roads to and from
> Armagh/Indiana, PA - approx. 11 hours driving time back to Boston on
> Sun./Mon. This is for 500 miles, more or less.
>
> I didn't see too many FOT's while there, but I did get to meet and speak
> with many folks about Portland - thanks for the thanks.
>
> I wore my FOT t-shirt for the Autocross - this was the maiden voyage for
> that shirt... that plus my lucky shorts... oh let's not go threre.
> Anyway, the highlights of the day were:
>
> 1. 31.988 on the AutoX. The fastest street driven Triumph at the event. I
> wound up second in class due to Richard Good having a majorly fast run
> (29.low-something) in his _prepared_ TR6. But let's not talk class here.
> The power-slide/4 wheel drift turn-around was a thing of beauty by Mr.
> Good - Congrats. 10.0 on style. I was 7th fastest overall. On my street
> tires. ;-) Damn, another shot at FTD down the tubes.
>
> Speaking of R. Good - anybody got an e-mail for him. He should def. be an
> FOT!
>
> 2. Uncle Dave seeing the FOT shirt and saying "which one are you?". My
> replying "Bob Lang" and his priceless "Oh" reply. That was worth the trip
> all by itself. Is it something I said??? Too bad my camera was elsewhere.
>
> 3. Waking up in the morning and saying, okay - I'll just do a "qualifying
> run at the autoX", my girlfriend saying "okay, it's your car" and then
> turning in a pretty good time. Allright.
>
> 4. The "mountain tour" in under an hour. WHoopee!
>
> 5. Taking a spin in Jack Emery's beautiful 215 V8 powered MGB (hey - I
> know, think of it as a TRiumph powered MG, okay??). It's been ages since
> I drove a car that could haze the tires at 55. WOW. Majorly kool.
>
> 6. Driving through Johnstown (Jahnzteeown), PA (can you say 4 major
> floods in under 100 years???) during a cloud burst. Please god, get me
> outta here!
>
> 7. Oh, the drag race. I ran three runs 18.00 +/- .1. Too bad my reaction
> time kept dropping (can you say "red light"??). At least I was consistant.
>
> Where was the Jack and Joe show??? I was looking for you guys.
>
> Latah.
> Bobstah.
>
> p.s. for U autoXers out there, when did they start allowing blowers in AP
> class for TR6's??? Hint - the torque was enough to break the CV joints on
> that car during the drag racing.
>
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bobstah, when you go as your alter ego, lots of things can happen. fot
shirts seem to multiply, or is that multiple personalities. i'm glad
you could "claw" your way out of johnstown and didn't get "boiled" down
in the flood zone. ted
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