Now doggonit, you all are making me wish I hadn't committed to
taking my wife to the Woodward Dream Cruise the same weekend
as Grattan. I really want to be there. I took the Spit out to
Grattan last weekend, got the chance to do most of the track.
Pit out to T1, park at T1 for the morning. T1 to Pit in. Forgot
how good the Spit handles. Couldn't push it too hard, no rollbar.
Need to get the front end alignment back to my specs, and it
should be great fun.
Maybe I'll try to get out on Sunday.
Doug
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-fot@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-fot@autox.team.net]On
Behalf Of Jeff Snook
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 8:25 AM
To: Jack W. Drews; fot@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: it lives
Congratulations Jack,
Hope to have some fun with you and Tony at Grattan. The white TR3 is ready
to go and we'll see you there. You be careful with those "hot" cams though.
I had one a while back from Greg Solo. Ran like a scalded rabbit during the
weekend, but had to do a valve job after every event!!
Vroom, vroom,
Jeff Snook
http://www.snooksdreamcars.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jack W. Drews" <vinttr4@geneseo.net>
To: <fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 5:38 PM
Subject: it lives
> It's official -- new blue lives again! It made the Big Noise again today.
>
> It stays cool, it doesn't leak oil (well, maybe a little bit), and it
> sounds phenomenal.
>
> Time to kick back, and get to work on that bottle of Canadian whiskey and
> sweet vermouth and then take a nap. I've released all my work clothes to
> Frances for laundering -- all three stages -- "kinda clean", "acceptably
> dirty", and "stands by itself".
>
> I'm thinking of applying for part time employment at the local seed corn
> company for a temporary harvest season job to help pay for this little
melt
> down. You city types may not understand this subtle small town humor. I
> recommend that everybody take good care of their IRA so they can still
race
> when they get to be as ancient as me.
>
> Now I must fess up -- new camshaft, the only one in the country --
> guaranteed to get me more hp and faster out of the corners. But as usual,
> if the car is faster, it's a credit my to driving skills, but if it's
> slower, it's the camshaft's fault. Everybody understand this philosophy?
> I've also reconfigured the domes on my pistons -- oops -- domes are an
> illegal modification under 1961 rules. Don't tell VSCDA, okay? We'll see
> what happens when I again go against my nemesis, Tony Drews. The best
> racing I've had in my 41 years of racing has been against my son Tony. You
> can't believe what an indescribable pleasure it is for both of us. I hope
> The Good Lord will grant me a couple more years of that.
>
> Henry Frye, where are you when I need you? He and I had a terrific thing
> going at VIR -- I let him go around me at corner four (ahem) just to make
> it interesting and chased him the rest of the race. I was using my stock
> crank 6000 rpm, he was using his Moldex crank 7200 rpm, same lap times
> while we were doing that but boy was it fun. Henry is a really good driver
> considering how little he has got to drive, what with correcting all the
> things that were wrong with his used race car purchase. Wonderful while it
> lasted. I'm worried about Henry, though, afraid he's gone queer on us
> because he will be driving a Formula Vee at our next event at Grattan.
> You're going to have to think about this all winter, Henry. When are we
> going to meet up next year?
>
> Time to refresh the amber liquid in the glass. See you all, or at least my
> Midwest buddies, at Grattan in two weeks. Boy, Grattan is wonderful. Blind
> corners, decreasing radii, off-camber corners. People from outside the
> Midwest, eat your hearts out. Hoo boy.
>
> uncle jack
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