Dave T, I'm still in the prep stage, but am anxious to make that first
extended run. Your topic got me thinking I should pick a day and a route
for the first outing of the year. Something good to think about while it's
still cold outside (although not really that bad).
Terry Banbury
Mk III
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> From: Dave Terrick[SMTP:dterrick@home.com]
> Reply To: Dave Terrick
> Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 8:00 PM
> To: triumphs@autox.teaam.net; spitfires@autox.team.net
> Subject: Prepare for Take Off..... First flight of the year
>
>
> The header says it all. A fifty mile return journey to St Francois
> Xavier,
> a small town outside of Winnipeg. As in Manitoba, Canada, "Winterpeg".
> Except that there is no snow to be found, except a small drift in a
> ditch...here and there. We have been blessed with a winter that started a
> month late, and...knock on wood pleeeeease.... well, you know. My
> previous
> record is Feb 10, and then I only drove it to the club meeting (a change
> in
> insurance law favoured a pre-March 1 reg.. and I thought why not?).
>
> I think this will be a wonderful summer for all of us everywhere, weather
> patterns permitting. Now us "Notherners" (include snowbelt states,
> please)
> may have a chance at a 9 month season !!
>
> I put the car away last October. Then, it needed a diff (wrong ratio),
> tranny (3rd gear synchro, bearings, and speedo gear), and many little
> things. Driving today, I wonder..... Absence did make the heart grow
> fonder, because I enjoyed the quirks of the car. 3800 rpm at 60, with
> essentially no mufflers. Double declutching to save what's left of the
> tranny. Freezing from the lack of decent heat and window seals that I
> never
> ever did put on.... I came home shivering... because I was too macho to
> wear a "proper" leather jacket, but pumped up about the ordeal. I even
> ran into a fellow at the town store who claimed to have had a GT6. His
> story about a "great car that was a maintenance hog" struck a good nerve,
> and I left, shivering, but smiling as I let the volume control hit 5k on
> the
> upshifts.
>
> I challenge the lists to continue this thread. Let's make some good news.
>
> Dave T
> Winnipeg
>
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