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Noobz has a REALLY big box behind walmart-- here's mineIt wasn't enough to take his wheels, so you had to take his home, too?
Well…
The fact that almost the entire day yesterday was rain free led me to believe that maybe it had finally left.
I go to the desk manager, tell him that I think I’m gonna attempt a “half way” drive tonight, and when he can afford to let me leave, I’m outta here.
He said “ Get on outta here then”. It was 5:15.
I get home, throw some things in an overnight bag, book a non-refundable room in Meridian MS. 2:15 hours to the west, put my old assed dog in the basement with food and water, prop the door open so he can come and go, and no sooner do I open the garage door to back out,…….rain drops start pelting the ground.
I’m committed now. I can’t get the 125.00 room fee back, I’m just gonna have to hope it’s only a light rain.
It wasn’t.
By the time I’m 20 minutes in, it becomes torrential. Emergency flashers are on everywhere, visibility is like “ the car in front of you”, and traffic has slowed to 40-50mph.
And here I am….stuck in the middle of it, with drag radials.
Fortunately, traffic dictated a slow enough speed that I wasn’t the hold up. I’m in the slow lane, in 5th, praying to god that somebody won’t force me to slam on my brakes…Because so far, despite the river im driving through, the car isn’t giving me the slightest inkling that the rear is hydroplaning.
We slog on like this for 30 miles. It was almost like hitting a wall though, cause as soon as I get west of Birmingham, the rain stops.
I can breathe now. I can’t say prying my fingers off the steering wheel wasn’t a challenge, but once on clear, dry pavement I bumped the Monster into 6th, accelerated to 75, and cruised on down the road….in the dark.
I don’t know if it’s a sign of the times, or that stretch of interstate but going west on I 20 out of Birmingham is a truck route. I was constantly flanked by 18 wheels the whole way here.
But I made it. Leg 1 down, and now a relatively easy 3 hour drive to Gulfport.
* obligatory out my hotel window photo op
The fact that almost the entire day yesterday was rain free led me to believe that maybe it had finally left.
I go to the desk manager, tell him that I think I’m gonna attempt a “half way” drive tonight, and when he can afford to let me leave, I’m outta here.
He said “ Get on outta here then”. It was 5:15.
I get home, throw some things in an overnight bag, book a non-refundable room in Meridian MS. 2:15 hours to the west, put my old assed dog in the basement with food and water, prop the door open so he can come and go, and no sooner do I open the garage door to back out,…….rain drops start pelting the ground.
I’m committed now. I can’t get the 125.00 room fee back, I’m just gonna have to hope it’s only a light rain.
It wasn’t.
By the time I’m 20 minutes in, it becomes torrential. Emergency flashers are on everywhere, visibility is like “ the car in front of you”, and traffic has slowed to 40-50mph.
And here I am….stuck in the middle of it, with drag radials.
Fortunately, traffic dictated a slow enough speed that I wasn’t the hold up. I’m in the slow lane, in 5th, praying to god that somebody won’t force me to slam on my brakes…Because so far, despite the river im driving through, the car isn’t giving me the slightest inkling that the rear is hydroplaning.
We slog on like this for 30 miles. It was almost like hitting a wall though, cause as soon as I get west of Birmingham, the rain stops.
I can breathe now. I can’t say prying my fingers off the steering wheel wasn’t a challenge, but once on clear, dry pavement I bumped the Monster into 6th, accelerated to 75, and cruised on down the road….in the dark.
I don’t know if it’s a sign of the times, or that stretch of interstate but going west on I 20 out of Birmingham is a truck route. I was constantly flanked by 18 wheels the whole way here.
But I made it. Leg 1 down, and now a relatively easy 3 hour drive to Gulfport.
* obligatory out my hotel window photo op
The first half day is in the bag.
After the lousy sleep I got the night before, complicated by the white knuckle drive to get there, then driving another 3 hours, washing the car, and standing around for the last 3 hours i was here in 88 degree weather….I didn’t really have too much left in me to wanna get on here and talk about.
But today is a new day.
Yesterday, I made several videos with the camera mounted inside the windshield looking back at me. They amount to unscripted babbling about anything and everything that goes through my head at any given second . * Squirrel!
And just like every other video I’ve made since owning these cameras…will get scrapped.
I was watching a couple of them last night to see if anything relevant could be salvaged from any of them…….Not to be.
All that are on these videos is just insane ramblings of some old ass guy, sitting in some seat of some car.
No said the finger.
Ill keep trying though…Sooner or later i’ll either figure out how best to use these damn things, or they’ll just go into the drawer in my bedroom next to the unused Drone, Old How to learn Spanish CD’s, and other crap I thought I had to have.
After the lousy sleep I got the night before, complicated by the white knuckle drive to get there, then driving another 3 hours, washing the car, and standing around for the last 3 hours i was here in 88 degree weather….I didn’t really have too much left in me to wanna get on here and talk about.
But today is a new day.
Yesterday, I made several videos with the camera mounted inside the windshield looking back at me. They amount to unscripted babbling about anything and everything that goes through my head at any given second . * Squirrel!
And just like every other video I’ve made since owning these cameras…will get scrapped.
I was watching a couple of them last night to see if anything relevant could be salvaged from any of them…….Not to be.
All that are on these videos is just insane ramblings of some old ass guy, sitting in some seat of some car.
No said the finger.
Ill keep trying though…Sooner or later i’ll either figure out how best to use these damn things, or they’ll just go into the drawer in my bedroom next to the unused Drone, Old How to learn Spanish CD’s, and other crap I thought I had to have.
So you’re in Gulfport as of now, correct? Mount one of the cameras to the outside front fender of the car so we can hear sewing needle and BOV sounds as you cruise around showing us the other cars that pass by.
Glad you made it ok. Drag Radials really aren't as bad in the rain as people think they are. It would still be on my mind the whole drive.
Kurt
Kurt
I swear.
Maybe I’m just too critical. Maybe it’s just the cars I deem cool enough to photograph aren’t so common.
I just walked around the venue…There are a Butt load of 67-69 Camaros, 55-57 Chevy’s, a stupid amount of pick ups from all eras. Easily 30 64-67 Chevy II’s, and A pretty decent collection of Mustangs through 95 ( yeah, they let em in). Old assed 100k dollar street rods from the 30’s and 40’s rolled in and out all day, as did scores of skanky assed rat rods
Yet,…..Did I bother to take a pic of any of them?
Nope.
If there was more than few of them here, they got passed by.
But…
There were a few that I found amazing and rare enough to catch.
Probably one of my favs, I’d own one of these in a heartbeat. American Motors AMX.
Original GTO Judge
This was supposed to show off what the venue backs up to except it’s badly backlit.
But again, 1972 Stage 1 Buick GS ( it’s the car I stole my hood scoop design from)
A 1972 Dodge Demon with enough rubber under it to stock a Condom factory with supplies for a year.
Several others went by me , as this cruise in is constantly in flux. There was a constant stream of cars rolling by where I was parked. If I was there to spectate, Then it would truly be a “spectacle”….
And it is/was,….don’t get me wrong,…it just seemed like there was always an endless stream of people stopping by with questions that needed answering.
Kate’s down here. (For whatever reason). She doesn’t stay with me while I’m here, MOF she came,…..she sat for like a half hour, and listened to the stream of people ask me the same questions over and over again..
She says “ You love this sht don’t you?”
I say, “Just like a dog that loves to be scratched behind his ear”.
Maybe I’m just too critical. Maybe it’s just the cars I deem cool enough to photograph aren’t so common.
I just walked around the venue…There are a Butt load of 67-69 Camaros, 55-57 Chevy’s, a stupid amount of pick ups from all eras. Easily 30 64-67 Chevy II’s, and A pretty decent collection of Mustangs through 95 ( yeah, they let em in). Old assed 100k dollar street rods from the 30’s and 40’s rolled in and out all day, as did scores of skanky assed rat rods
Yet,…..Did I bother to take a pic of any of them?
Nope.
If there was more than few of them here, they got passed by.
But…
There were a few that I found amazing and rare enough to catch.
Probably one of my favs, I’d own one of these in a heartbeat. American Motors AMX.
Original GTO Judge
This was supposed to show off what the venue backs up to except it’s badly backlit.
But again, 1972 Stage 1 Buick GS ( it’s the car I stole my hood scoop design from)
A 1972 Dodge Demon with enough rubber under it to stock a Condom factory with supplies for a year.
Several others went by me , as this cruise in is constantly in flux. There was a constant stream of cars rolling by where I was parked. If I was there to spectate, Then it would truly be a “spectacle”….
And it is/was,….don’t get me wrong,…it just seemed like there was always an endless stream of people stopping by with questions that needed answering.
Kate’s down here. (For whatever reason). She doesn’t stay with me while I’m here, MOF she came,…..she sat for like a half hour, and listened to the stream of people ask me the same questions over and over again..
She says “ You love this sht don’t you?”
I say, “Just like a dog that loves to be scratched behind his ear”.
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Can’t argue on the pix you posted. AMX and the Judge are top tier for sure!I swear.
Maybe I’m just too critical. Maybe it’s just the cars I deem cool enough to photograph aren’t so common.
I just walked around the venue…There are a Butt load of 67-69 Camaros, 55-57 Chevy’s, a stupid amount of pick ups from all eras. Easily 30 64-67 Chevy II’s, and A pretty decent collection of Mustangs through 95 ( yeah, they let em in). Old assed 100k dollar street rods from the 30’s and 40’s rolled in and out all day, as did scores of skanky assed rat rods
Yet,…..Did I bother to take a pic of any of them?
Nope.
If there was more than few of them here, they got passed by.
But…
There were a few that I found amazing and rare enough to catch.
Probably one of my favs, I’d own one of these in a heartbeat. American Motors AMX.
Original GTO Judge
This was supposed to show off what the venue backs up to except it’s badly backlit.
But again, 1972 Stage 1 Buick GS ( it’s the car I stole my hood scoop design from)
A 1972 Dodge Demon with enough rubber under it to stock a Condom factory with supplies for a year.
Several others went by me , as this cruise in is constantly in flux. There was a constant stream of cars rolling by where I was parked. If I was there to spectate? Then it would truly be a “spectacle”. And it is/was, don’t get me wrong,…it just seemed like there was always an endless stream of people stopping by with questions that needed answering.
Kate’s down here. For whatever reason. She doesn’t stay with me while I’m here, MOF she came, she sat for like a half hour, and listened to the stream of people ask me the same questions over and over again..
She says “ You love this sht don’t you?”
I say, “Just like a dog loves to be scratched behind his ear”.
It’s the start of the last day….I try to get here early to get a great place, given that the park is full of trees..200 year old Spanish Oak trees to be exact.
It’s not w/o a down side though..Despite the shade benefit, these things are dropping Little acorn thingy’s all day long.. They bing, pop, and bang off the cars all day long.
They aren’t big enough to do any harm it seems, as by later on this afternoon this thing will be jammed full of cars again.
But for now, there’s only the die hards..
And waaay back there,……under his very own tree….is this guy.
Whether or not he was a blow hard, I got given a number to a guy that tells me that when I’m ready to sell it, he was ready to buy it.
He asked if 100k would get it bought.
Yeah right.
When Kate was here yesterday for the whole 30 minutes she “ tolerated” this place, I had her register to win the annual give away car…
She says “ What makes you think I like that car?”
I don’t know, it’s a convertible,…..So you can show off your hotness?
“ How much is a car like this worth?” She asks.
I don’t know,…50-75k?
“ If I won it, I’d sell it in a heartbeat”
You and me both.
It’s not w/o a down side though..Despite the shade benefit, these things are dropping Little acorn thingy’s all day long.. They bing, pop, and bang off the cars all day long.
They aren’t big enough to do any harm it seems, as by later on this afternoon this thing will be jammed full of cars again.
But for now, there’s only the die hards..
And waaay back there,……under his very own tree….is this guy.
Whether or not he was a blow hard, I got given a number to a guy that tells me that when I’m ready to sell it, he was ready to buy it.
He asked if 100k would get it bought.
Yeah right.
When Kate was here yesterday for the whole 30 minutes she “ tolerated” this place, I had her register to win the annual give away car…
She says “ What makes you think I like that car?”
I don’t know, it’s a convertible,…..So you can show off your hotness?
“ How much is a car like this worth?” She asks.
I don’t know,…50-75k?
“ If I won it, I’d sell it in a heartbeat”
You and me both.
)
Well It’s done.
All that’s left to do is spend an evening with my hottie wife at what will undoubtedly be a 200.00 Dinner, have too much to drink, and hit the road tomorrow.
It was a good show. Nobody knows what a 2jz is, and that was the number one question I got asked, followed up with people wondering who made the car, ( brand) Then, when was a Cyclone ever in service, and if I did the work.
I would no sooner answer all of those questions, then have to turn around and do it all over again.
Big fun.
All that’s left to do is spend an evening with my hottie wife at what will undoubtedly be a 200.00 Dinner, have too much to drink, and hit the road tomorrow.
It was a good show. Nobody knows what a 2jz is, and that was the number one question I got asked, followed up with people wondering who made the car, ( brand) Then, when was a Cyclone ever in service, and if I did the work.
I would no sooner answer all of those questions, then have to turn around and do it all over again.
Big fun.
The top color would be changed before I tried to resell it. It’s like the paint and interior people did not talk to each other, and the painter is color blind.It’s the start of the last day….I try to get here early to get a great place, given that the park is full of trees..200 year old Spanish Oak trees to be exact.
It’s not w/o a down side though..Despite the shade benefit, these things are dropping Little acorn thingy’s all day long.. They bing, pop, and bang off the cars all day long.
They aren’t big enough to do any harm it seems, as by later on this afternoon this thing will be jammed full of cars again.
But for now, there’s only the die hards..
And waaay back there,……under his very own tree….is this guy.
Whether or not he was a blow hard, I got given a number to a guy that tells me that when I’m ready to sell it, he was ready to buy it.
He asked if 100k would get it bought.
Yeah right.
When Kate was here yesterday for the whole 30 minutes she “ tolerated” this place, I had her register to win the annual give away car…
She says “ What makes you think I like that car?”
I don’t know, it’s a convertible,…..So you can show off your hotness?
“ How much is a car like this worth?” She asks.
I don’t know,…50-75k?
“ If I won it, I’d sell it in a heartbeat”
You and me both.
silver and red/ maroon go together, it’s the freakin flames that would have to go.
All really a moot point, not my car, not gonna win it, not gonna worry about it.
Flames are cool. The color of them do not coordinate with the silver. They do not go with the maroon. How hard would it have been to make red tips that worked?. I think silver does not show the chrome off as well as other colors or black.
Maybe that’s why they are giving it away.
Well It’s done.
I gotta say, I’ve always admired the work, and perseverance that came with it, but that body style had also grown on me since watching your thread. Cool car for sure!!
And you loved every minute of it, I’m sure!
I gotta say, I’ve always admired the work, and perseverance that came with it, but that body style had also grown on me since watching your thread. Cool car for sure!!
He sooo wants to sound like he's complaining does he not?
Little acorns falling, $200 dinner with Kate, DRINKING!!!!! My god the torture
Let me tell you about driving brand X to a local show.
Yeah, nice truck bla bla bla then walk away
I tell people I hate the truck
Truthfully it's not the truck, it's the drive. Like 1953 drive.
So keep complaining but enjoy the ride.
Little acorns falling, $200 dinner with Kate, DRINKING!!!!! My god the torture
Let me tell you about driving brand X to a local show.
Yeah, nice truck bla bla bla then walk away
I tell people I hate the truck
Truthfully it's not the truck, it's the drive. Like 1953 drive.
So keep complaining but enjoy the ride.
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