List Track Day, the mandatory slanderous post

[rocco16v at netzero.net (L F)]

Sounds like a good time was had by all....
!
Larry
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: C Boyko 
  To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org ; 1gli@rochester.rr.com ; drew@scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca ; gtigirlie@hotmail.com 
  Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 3:57 PM
  Subject: List Track Day, the mandatory slanderous post 


  Warning, this post contains little or no technical information. Delete 
  immediately if you want to argue...

  Well, I had the gang over on the weekend. This IS NOT an off topic post, 
  there were no less than 9 Sciroccos in my driveway up here in the Great 
  White North, and some other misc. (very fine) German metal that wasn't part 
  of my personal junkyard. And Renard's Neon. At least he had the sense to 
  cable tie a VW logo onto it.

  Anyway, the intent was to go pound on cars on the Toronto Motorsports 
  circuit track, and pounding was done. But let me digress...

  First, I was informed that part of the Ohio contingent was attempting to 
  cross the border with nothing more than flimsy home-laminated 
  identification. When Daun called me and said that Anson and Shelly (and 
  Victor) had been yanked into Customs, I thought to myself, "yep, it figures, 
  he looks like he may have *something extra* in the car", and in fact they 
  found it, those rare, expensive and often smuggled teardrop wheels. They let 
  him go this time. Lucky too, he then proceeded to entertain us with lots of 
  great gravel sliding, his trademark reverse donuts, and some excellent grass 
  footage from the track that did NOT involve Ben's car. Ben had some grass 
  footage of his own, but we missed filming his "jump" from outside the car. 
  (good in-car sound clips of it though, crunch, KaBam)

  Friday night revealed secrets about Sarah Arms that none of us were fully 
  aware of. It seems she has watched "Super Troopers" 456,792 times, and knows 
  it all by heart. "The schnozzberries taste like schnozzberries". Fortunately 
  Renard had the foresight to provide suitable beverages for the evening. 
  Sarah gets the weekend's Award of Merit though, for travelling in the Bunny 
  from Vermont, most of the way with Josh Able. And they were caught "parking" 
  along a dark, secluded country road, hmm, what's up with that? I worry about 
  Sarah...

  Daun came equipped with his glass breaking hammer, all set to work on my 
  garage, but I told him it could wait for another time ;) I really want my 
  windows in their present condition. He also found himself in a  situation 
  later that evening when he had far more pussy than he could handle. Yep, 
  always thinking of my guests.

  Saturday we were off on important car related trips, like - eating out, and 
  shopping at Ikea??? I came home from the city after we'd eaten lunch instead 
  of improving my home decor, and did a few minor tech procedures to the 
  headache, I thought the Locktite had come loose on my "linkage lollipop" 
  repair, but no, the ball had just broken off again. Damn car, nothing worse 
  than that sloppy lollipop condition. Later issues (of course at the most 
  inconvenient time) revealed that every nut and bolt is rattling loose on 
  that car, and electrons were not roaming freely.

  By mid afternoon I was thinking of the "next wave" of arrivals, and Meredith 
  Yeagley came limping in running on 3 cylinders, with Carston's (very 
  healthy) '78 911. (excuse me while I fantasize a bit, those cars have the 
  most gorgeous lines, and I resisted the urge to use the barf bag when we 
  were lapping at just shy of 100 mph, mmmm, nice ride, thanks Carston!) The 
  only problem with his car was the view of Ben's back end at the track, Ben 
  just kept passing him over and over and over and over on the video, of 
  course the rewind button may have had some role in that phenomenon.

  Poor Carston got a bit of a shock when Drew fired up Carrots (his TD Wolfie) 
  in all her spark plug free glory. She's still tapping and smoking, but Drew 
  was too busy to take her to the track, she would have liked it too. I have a 
  real soft spot for that car. (and thanks for once again getting your hands 
  greasy in my engine bay)

  Meredith got to discover first hand just how badly our local Canadian Tire 
  sucks as a source of VW parts, but went lapping anyways, by this time the 
  car was running well, and she was the smooothest driver there. I think she 
  had a total blast too.

  I was over at the 1/4 mile, as was Dennis, and we sucked out bigtime, but 
  the lapping folks had a riot. There were a few who didn't stay overnight 
  that met us there, Sean in his gorgeous red 8V and Mark in one of his MkIs, 
  they had a good time killing rubber and brake pads, and Anson's magnetic 
  camera caught the smokage that accounts for all that tire wear. Other great 
  footage caught Anson (and mean this in a nice way) being an ass (full 
  sideways a few times) and nearly kissing the wall once or twice. He has WAY 
  too much fun in that car. (Ron, I'm kidding, Victor's fine, honestly...)

  George was there with his friend too, in the "Economy" section, his friend 
  was pounding on a $120 (CDN) Jetta, (damn thing smoked like a diesel, but 
  made it around the track just fine) and George just got a new $200 MkII that 
  used to live around the corner from me. He left it home though.

  Ben "nobody is" Harder, of course proved  the superiority of Mkis and 16Vs 
  all at the same time,  and won every race. (I'm just saying that because I'm 
  nuts about that car of his. Lord help me, I love that car.) He had this 
  goofy grin on his face a lot, not sure what that was about. Well, I have 
  SOME idea.

  Returning home from the track, we ate what small amount of food I could 
  locate, and despite me providing perfectly good Tim Horton's Donuts and 
  Canadian chocolate bars, certain people (who shall remian nameless at their 
  request) had to venture into the "alternative snack foods". The dog was not 
  amused. This had nothing to do with the Molson's XXX. I'm sure of it. There 
  may also be some incriminating footage of Josh  floating around out there. 
  I'm sure it will surface eventually.

  So I survived having 10 Rocco nuts sleeping under my roof, and I miss you 
  guys/gals already. I'll keep everyone posted about when these events are 
  happening, and let's do it again..It was a blast.

  Cathy

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