Man, I AM BUMMED I missed the past race! Me, Panty 6 and a rental Nissan Altima left at 1500 to head north to Elkridge, MD to pick up another 240SX SE. 741.8 miles in 10:43:52 hours...stopped at the last rest stop, slept three hours, got the car, turned and burned...for a stop at 3...but NO, no rooms, 15000 rooms for a concert from some dude and sons, so we kept rolling in a Silvia/Altima draft at 75 to Kingsport at 5. Room, eat, back to room, shower, sleep. Five hours to home, home by 2:30...total trip back, 10:24:36 hours...I think I made a few minutes doing a little north of 85 with her in my dreft zone...why drafting...uhhhhhh....
MD DMV has no one there on the weekens, but they do offer services via a touch screen computer module and a printer to get your raod permit for a new purchase car...no paper, please see window 4...no one there. OK, over teh the licence building,"No, sorry sir, that is buyilding A, we don;t have those here...don;t get me started on state workers adn their lack of efficiancy to have a closed station hand over a stack of papers to one that's open on Saturday to allow, well you get the idea berkelyfudging mother fudgers.
Screw it, we roll fast just five overe, you draft me if you can...shoot she watches NASCAR liek a fiend, and guess what! She can freakin A draft like a pro!, move lanes, signal and we move as a unit. No one gets between us, she moves forward as I back off a touch to close the gap and roll back to 5 over.
What a trip. Got a new to us car, yeah, needs a little work...
adjust clutch, recharge AC, fix a 'clunk' in teh uh...behind the trans back to somewhere...goes CLUNK when decelling out of cruise, and lifting off the pedal too quick. If I lift easy, no clunk, or if I rev out of cruise and let off, no clunk...never ever had that happen in a car so I think It might be a a u joint
Car reeked of 10-50 and road grime, so the outer, engine bay, and trunk have been washed woth teh power washer and cherry soap, drying out now. Tomorrow th einterior will get done with the Bissel and left open to dry while I go get the tags transferred from the crunched 240..funny, both '96, both red, but the new one manual trans!
A heck of a trip, looking forward to more tgrm racing!
OH! spoke to 'Sooby Suzy'...HE is an Army NG LT about to make CPT in an INfantry Recon slot. His fiance is the die hard suby driver, and he is the one in tgrm. He also asked me to send him an invite to our races, so I said I would keep him informed. He was going to sub for me for friday's race, but had a date with his lady, no biggie, I have a nice spot in the top 10, and a new person to talk to and race with. He loves setting up the rival stuff by leading in with a slow lap, then going back two to three times from the middle to close to the end to lay down a, what we call in pool, sucker bet for everyone else because he is fast, maybe about FGC or faster fast, maybe Griffin fast, and maybe even close to racerfink fast