...a Vampire is near?

It's like that.

Scott, who only feels it when he isn't driving...

 

ok I dont get it...dont want to get it.
only makes me go hmmmm.
Find a new hobby...

 

Wow Great.

How do you find these great cars and photos ?

Is it the water up there?

 

I need to know what is going on with that Ariel air-box. Am I seeing double?? And 2 mufflers??

 

The Atom has the H1V8 in it its like having 2 hayabusa engines melted togother.
Awesome engine try stufing that into a Civic.

http://www.h1v8.com/page/page/1562068.htm

Edo

 

Doesn't that motor cost like $23,000 or something. Amazing you could stuff that into an Ariel. Now in my ITR, that would be nice!

 

It could be something in or about the water, you know alot of it falls out of the sky up here. For many of our citizens it's a psychic downer, but I love it. You know how there are some Pink Floyd songs that feel like winter in the winter and summer in the summer? It's all good, and when the sun shines you find out what's been going on.

That 4-cam Alfa motor out of a 164 lives in this crazy Randy's Alfetta. It produces one of the finest exhaust notes I've ever heard. I stop by Alfa club days just to hear it sing.

The Busa V-8 is in Dennis Palatov's Atom test bed. I think he was born the way he is and that it doesn't have anything to do with the water. BTW - he's making a rear upright package that solves problems you get when you use an Atom hard. He's the closest I'll probably ever come to meeting an extraterrestrial alien.

The Lotus 2-Eleven just happened to be there (Lotus day). Very nice.

And the poster of Keke Rosberg in his F3 days was hanging on the door of John Brewer's trailer. John is one of my living heros and favorite people. He was a hard charging surfer dude when he was young, and an accident put him in a chair. Doesn't keep him from racing though - only funding can do that. So he was out for a club day just because he had to drive. I totally relate - that's the best I'll do this year too. While we were chatting some old guy shows up in a late model Porsche. I listen long enough and learn that he designed some of local legend Rolla Vollstedt's Indy cars. Just another guy you'd never imagine was way deeper into racing than you are. They're all over up here. Portland isn't Los Angeles of course, but the sports car racing scene and it's creative aspects have long been very well developed, making a great environment to grow up in. Not all wine and roses though. Lee Stohr has had to get a real job. And the turnouts lately are reflecting the hard times. We should all have been at the traditional Memorial Day races at Pacific Raceways near Seattle this weekend. Almost none of us from Portland will be there. It breaks my heart to miss another year.

Here's Brewer and that some old guy you'd never guess:

 

Sure missing racing up there. It was all good - Firehawk, World Challenge, Nationals, USTCC. Ahh.

Lets pool our allowances and buy a Grand-Am date !

 

"Missing" racing is amongst the worst of pains. Right up there with heartbreak at the hands of a really hot woman.

Pool our allowances to buy a Grand-Am date? Sounds good, I actually do have enough for that - buying a spectator ticket that is.

Scott, who worked on his car over the long weekend and made significant progress...only 98% left to go...