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Shoes. Or, yet another fab-u-lous weekend with listers (long)
Bummer I couldnt make it. Sounded like good fun!
On another note, the NOPI show in Norwalk was really not so great. I
didnt even take any pictures! There were only two VW's in the show, a
bone-stock brand new A5 GTI, and a New Beetle with some fun stuff on it.
There were a handful of VW's racing though, and the fastest car that we
saw in the open class (other than a rail-dragster that ran a 6-second
pass) was an aircooled beetle that ran a low 8-second pass. Good stuff!
There was also an A3 Jetta VR6 Turbo that I remembered from last year but
he broke his transmission in half right at the line. :( Another bummer,
we didnt get any cars finished for the show so we didnt even have anything
to represent. Oh well, maybe next year.....
Or maybe next year I'll be hanging out with listers...... ;)
Brendan
--- Daun Yeagley <vwdaun@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Damn, it's Monday. I'm just suffering some
> lister-withdrawal that is common after a group of them
> leave after spending a couple days here.
>
> Jim Jarrett showed up Thursday afternoon from Madison, in
> his Golf. Probably a good choice because a) the interior
> of his Scirocco looked like an explosion at a wire factory
> due to dash replacement and stereo install and b) it snowed
> like hell for a portion of his trip. The evening was
> otherwise quiet, with the major activity of the evening
> being chatting and dinner.
>
> Shoes*
>
> Friday while "at work" Jim & I made some more progress on
> my 16v. I concentrated on finishing the sandblasting and
> cleaning of a number of parts in the engine bay, while he
> was elbows-deep into soldering connections for a 3-gauge
> panel install. Towards evening, we repositioned one of the
> rental aircraft to my company's other airport, which was
> semi-entertaining as Friday was *very* windy. The rest of
> the evening was spent playing euchre awaiting Cathy's
> arrival. She showed up around 11:30 after battling snow
> and Detroit side-streets in the Bug, cursing Jim
> all-the-while. (Bad weather is always Jim's fault you
> see.)
>
> OMG Shoes*
>
> Saturday dawned a clear blue, so we decided to forsake the
> cars and hit the airways. A local chapter of the
> International Organization of Women Pilots was having a
> fund-raiser for breast cancer, which gave us a really good
> excuse to fly and help out a good cause. So the four of
> us, plus local lister Behrle Hubbach and my partner Brad
> piled into a couple airplanes and headed out on the Poker
> flight. (Basically they give you a card, which you take to
> several other selected airports to have stamped, and at the
> last airport they deal you a hand of cards, with prizes for
> the best hand.) The highlight of the flight probably had
> to be overflying Wright-Patt Air Force Base in loose
> formation with a C-5. I'll have to get some pics posted
> somewhere....
>
> Let's get some shoes*
>
> Once back at home, we teched Behrle's wife's Cabriolet with
> what we hope was some success. It looks as though at least
> one of the injectors isn't spraying nicely and the fuel
> mixture is all out of whack. Rather than stranding himself
> 30 miles from home, he headed back. Well, almost - one
> injector didn't get seated and ended up getting snapped in
> the head. Behrle managed to fish it out somehow, and I had
> a spare injector to get him back to Yellow Springs. Pizza
> and Super Troopers finished off our evening, with Ben
> Harder showing up towards the beginning of the movie.
>
> These shoes rule*
>
> It was still nice Sunday morning so, oh darn, we flew to
> Portsmouth for breakfast. Lemme tell ya, Jim & Cathy
> really hate this flying thing. (Cathy's face must hurt
> from all the smiling, and Jim's flying lessons are
> progressing nicely. Muhahaha.) Too bad that once we got
> back here, they had to pack up and head home. :( I got a
> note from each of them letting me know they arrived safely,
> and we must do this again before too long. I hope so,
> winter is too long to get through without good friends.
>
> *Oh, and for the shoes reference:
>
> <http://youtube.com/watch?v=tYnn51C3X_w>
>
> Jim showed me this little clip shortly after he arrived and
> I found it stupidly-hysterical. Lines from the video were
> the catch-phrases of the weekend. Yeah, I guess you just
> had to be here.
>
>
> Daun Yeagley - Wilmington Ohio
> '80 Scirocco '81 Scirocco S 16v to be?
> '86 Scirocco 8v '88 Scirocco 16v
> '88 Scirocco Slegato (Gino!) '96 Passat GLX Wagon
> '56 Cessna 172
> The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts -
> Ehrlich's Law.
>
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