TheSkinny@aol.com wrote:
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> Just spent the day out at Thunderhill raceway. Barney, I can see how this
> gets addicting. Convinced the wife to go out with the Honda, and I took the
> Midget...guess who came home with the trophy (her). Ok, just cause she was
> the only one in her class, but she still did a very good job. Luckily to
> save face, my best time was better than her best time, but only by roughly 2
> sec. Midget handled excellently, although I pushed too hard on my third try
> and launched the Midget off the track and got a little air in the process. I
> gather most people decide whether their car will be a driver, a show car, or
> a competition car, cause I just messed up the custom paint job. Seems to
> drive ok, but the tow brackets bottomed out, and bent the bumper mounting
> brackets. Bumper is kinda cockeyed now. Good thing my friend at the body
> shop has a frame rack. Ended up third best time in vintage class out of
> eight cars & just a tick faster than Jim Boyd in his BGT. Fastest time in
> our class went to another Chico British Club member Ron Joplin in his Midget.
> The course was a very fast one, I'll bet the involvement of the Corvette
> group from Sacramento had alot to do with that. If I can keep the wife
> involved, maybe I can justify setting up a car just for autocrossing. (I'll
> keep dreaming)
>
> David Riker
> 69 Midget (Temporarily no longer show quality)
David:
Since I didn't stick around for the awards, congrats to you and Ron!
Did the guy in the 2002 come in 2nd? Did I actually improve in the
second round, since I was #5 out of 7 in the AM runs?
Tell Candy that she did a great jog today! I hope that someone got a
picture of you getting air in the Midget! I may lose my "Spin Jim"
nickname, since I failed to spin out today! Oh well!
I'm exhausted but smilin!
See ya,
Jim
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