Car Show Today
 

Today Linda my wife and I took our cars to a local car show. It was mostly customs and low riders but well attended and we had a good day.
Both cars drew a lot of attention as they were quite different from the other entrants. I didn't win anything but Linda took a 1st with the John Cooper Works.

Cool! Congrats.
The guys in the background seem to like your car!

Ya, I had people all day asking about it.

I hear ya there!
I accidently ended up in a car show in the summer and I bet I talked to 200 people!
It was where I had the one guy telling his buddies it was the new "Porsche Scorpion".
One Mustang dude was getting pissed cuz' I was getting more attention then he was. He told me I didn't belong there because my car was too new (as opposed to his 5 year old, bone stock GT).

Have anymore pictures of the FRS? It looks mean.

Yes,
http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=69139

Ahh, Good old Mustangs. Last time I ran Oregon Raceway Park Labor Day weekend I lapped a New Boss 302. New Mustangs are a dime a dozen, and even though I'm a Ford Fan, I just don't like the new Mustangs. Our cars just have a good look to them, add some wheels, drop it a bit, add a wing and it atracts people like flys to a cow pie!
Today was a good day, nothing but complements.

Holy crap how did I miss that thread before!?
Awesome work!!!!!
Many thanks for showing the young crowd that us "older" guys are not the V8 fixated fossils they sometimes think we are!
Makes me sad I don't have a place (and to be honest, the skills) to do the custom work you do. Loved that home made diffuser.

Thanks for the complements Tocat. This "Older Guy" just turned 65 and I'm still going strong. Most of the young crowd I talk to don't have a clue how to really build or drive a car. It's all show and no go for most of them. I've been a hot-rodder all my life. The word "Stock" in not in my vocabulary. I've even hot-rodded my diesel pusher motorhome. BG.

congrats

You have a few years on me but I have been there too!
I must admit that some of the new aspects are beyond me (i.e. ECU tuning) and I do sometimes miss the satisfaction of hitting that spot on timing by turning the distributer by hand until you hear the perfect sound.
The days of changing a fuel pump with the spare in the glovebox (cuz' you knew it was only going to last 500 miles) on the side of the road are long gone and when you had a problem you figured it out. There was none of this "I have a squeak under the hood what is it" crap!

Yup, the days of duct tape and bailing wire are over.

First I've seen your FR-S build thread. Sensational! Hope to meet you at ORP next year. Don't know for sure what I'll be in, but after my first and only visit last year want to try running CCW.

As much as I like your FR-S, Linda's JCW is very special. Makes me think of historic videos of the Monte Carlo Rallye.

I love ORP, by far my favorite track. I did 14 track days there last year and will do that if not more this coming year. Looking forward to meeting you.
Now, on to the important stuff. Speaking of the Monte Carlo Rally, look who signed Linda's dash!

Forgive my dropped jaw and drool, wow.

Paddy Hopkirk was in Calif this past year and signed Linda's car. We also met Timo Makinen but didn't think to get his autograph.

I once had the experience of riding along with Taisto Hänninen in his Group B Corolla during part of a stage of the Olympus Rally at a press event.

As he chain smoked on the freeway enroute to the forest start, engine screaming at high freeway speeds, he yelled how a rally driver must be out of control most of the time to win. I sort of got it until we set off and he pretty much scared the crap out of me. Airborne over blind hillcrests with nothing but sky and the tops of old growth fir trees whizzing by, I was thinking Taisto had a secret death wish. Pro rally drivers are different, maybe the most skilled of any other motorsports type.

So, ORP is your favorite? I've heard that from many other track junkies who rate it above Thunderhill and Laguna Seca that are usually on the top of most lists. Hopefully, with development planned for the near future, ORP management can attract a nationally televised event there. It would make for great viewing. Speaking of that, someone posted a video of you banging gears around ORP and your car sounded and looked very fast. Can't find the link right now, but hope you saw it.

I have run almost every track on the west coast, and every track has it's fun parts. I also like Luguna seca and Thunderhill. I have only done a pace lap at Thunderhill West but that is going to be one awesome track. I am currently down in CA for the winter so I'm doing Chuckwalla and Willow Springs as much as I can.
Here's the video you were asking about. (I'm number 24)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU8o...ature=youtu.be

That's the one. About the best illustration I've seen of the elevation changes at ORP. On my first couple of stints there I was lost despite watching videos and studying the track map beforehand. It's the blind, cresting turns that made me tentative. Then my ORP experienced friend Jon @jblmr2 let me shadow him and that made the rest of the day enjoyable.

ORP is quite the track. 400 feet of elevation change and 14 blind corners. Took me the better part of a summer to learn it. Now I love it. Every time I'm on track I learn something new.