Re: [VWofT] Re: Toronto Bug Show (long)

[David Horwood <gtxboy@yahoo.com>]

Allow me to add my 2 cents if I may...

>   getting off the 407, we turned onto pine valley and scooted up to the
> next of lights where marco and angie pulled up alongside of me.  angie 
> to jay: "what're you lookin at, bitch?" or some shit.  man, these
wimmin > are so cool it hurts :)  so, marco and mistress angie are lined
up at a > sweet set of lights with TMB, when ellen, behind marco and ang
honks and > tells me that everyone has pulled over back at the offramp.

Damn, I would have loved to see that show down.  TMB's car is damn
fast/quick/low, so it would have been an interesting show...  I've never
driven a VR, let alone been a passenger in one, so for the record, I
don't know what I'm talking about. :P

>    i had a nasty feeling that it was alee's GTI, and sho nuff, horwood 
> had broken another one of our sleds.  motherfuck.  so we sat there for
a
> bit, trying to figure out what was wrong with the GTI, when hathaway,
> kindly turned alee's cabby off, to alee's dismay.  i haven't mentioned 
> it yet, but alee's battery keeps dying in the cab, so letting it run 
> allows the car to be driven home.  turning it off allows nothing, but a

> tow (it's an automatic that will eventually be converted to 5spd).

Yeah, it did seem like every car I touched, especially the ones I drove
ended up leaving the scene in critical condition!  :)  Glad to see Daun
made it home okay, I could sense that he was feeling a bit nervous when
Jay asked me to take a look at his mastery in the power steering
department.  I wonder what he would have done if I had told him just how
much I wanted to drive his car after it was fixed????  :)
Anyway, back to Alee's GTI.  Since it wouldn't start, but had electrics,
I wondered if it was out of gas?  Well, it had a 1/4 tank when we left
the show, and I started to wonder just how much gas you'd burn runnin'
with the mad bastard and crew at 6000 RPM in 5th all the way home??  So
here's how the most memorable moment of my weekend set itself up (and I
WISH someone got this on tape, but alas, it was not to be).  So we went
to get a can of gas to see if we could bump start the GTI, and on the way
back, Jay asks if the gas can is closed up all tighty-whitey.  Not
suspecting what lied ahead, I said 'sure'.  So as we rip back down Pine
Valley until we get back to the scene, and at about 60 km/h or so (oh
yeah, Jay's new 9A tranny had a stripped speedo bolt hole, so we were
speedoles) the wheel gets a sudden crank to full lock left, and then up
with the parking brake handle, and the ass end comes whipping around in a
near-perfectly executed 180 degree rally turn followed by a mercyless
dusting of the freshly rotated A520s.  The really funny part about it was
that Todd (I think) had called the parking brake turn out to the others
long before it actually happend.  I guess knowing how TMB drives is like
riding a bicycle.  One you learn, you can never forget!

> after some probably unnecessary, but super fun "offroading" with the
> pathfinder, we decide to strap the cables from the pathfinder to the
GTI > and find out that the car seemingly has a problem with the
alternator  
> not charging the battery.  this is confirmed about a kilometer down the
> road where the car again stalls before entering the intersection of
HWY7 
> and pine valley.

This was cool.  Heres the scene: Jay is on the grass, and needs to turn
around.  On one side is a good 10 feet of hill at about a 35 degree
angle. On the other side is a 5" curb and then the road.  Hmm... 
Decisions, decisions.  Well, I now know what it looks like when you're
doing a 3 point turn on the side of a hill.  I can still hear Alee saying
to herself 'Jay, please don't drive up the hill'.  :P

>     we strap the pathfinder to the car and slowly make our way to   
> alee's.  on the way, sandor, andrew, peter, damian, and sundie manage
to > get in behind alee's GTI and that's how it was til we got home.  it
was 
> absolutely beautiful to see it.  made me feel like a fallen comrade was

> being taken to the hospital, and the concerned friends were all there 
> for protection or something....weird

That was funny too.  As I was being towed thru the intersection, I hear
Sandor say 'Oh my god!' in disbelief.  I wonder if he was thinking 'Oh my
god, Dave is going to die for breaking Alee's car' or just 'Oh my god
that sucks'. 
 
>    we're finally at alee's place, and after a few conversations about  
> this or that, i changed into my grub outfit, and get underneath daun's 
> car. daun, horwood, and i got to work on the aforementioned power   
> steering pump. getting it off of the car was surprisingly free of 
> hassle.  of course bonhoff made short work of anything that i had 
> trouble with.  i hate that guy sometimes....

Dave Bonhoff.  
AKA: Disgustingly fast while looking/feeling SO slow (I even went for a
run with him at the auto-x and the bastard beat his own FTD with my fat
ass as ballast).  
AKA: Walking Bently

>    we lacked a few tools, so horwood and myself headed to home depot
and
> grabbed what we needed, and a couple of things we don't need, when i   
> pulled a minor tom green on this couple at the register.  they had
their > cart with a bunch of pieces of wood sticking out the back, and
one of 
> them was perfectly eyelevel.  so i walked up to it and made an noise
and 
> an action like i poked my eye with it.  while doing so, i hit the wood 
> with my hand, so everything synched nicely, especially since the couple

> purchasing it, and the cashier just looked up as i did it.
> the woman looked _really_ concerned and i pulled my hands away from  my

> face, and she asked me if i hit my eye or something, and i said "no, i 

> was just kidding".  deathstare.  if looks could kill, she'd've slowly  

> roated me over the fire.  ask horwood.  he was laffing at my idiocy, i 

> think...  it was really quite funny, and after the initial shock, the  

> couple sorta laffed too...

Fuck was that funny!  It was even funnier when she started into Jay
saying how that happend to her sometime before, and she couldn't live
with herself if she took someone else's eye out.  :)
Anyway, that's my $0.02, I just wish I had my car for it, but at least I
got do drive/race against TMB/break Alee's phat GTI.
Here's to Alee and her parents for providing us with 3 nights of car
repairs, burnouts, and a whole bunch of people eating, drinking,
sleeping, parking and a lot of other stuff that I shoudn't mention.  And
thanks for letting me break, err... drive your GTI.

Dave.
1992 Jetta GTX 

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