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Re: My Saturday at Cincy (longish)



Thanks Ron
Glad to help.
brian
8716v... more work to be done... inner tie rod ends.


On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Cheapass Ron wrote:

> If you didn't make it, you should have.
>
> Being's that I'm fairly local to Daun, I wasn't able
> to dedicate the entire weekend to the event like the
> out-of-towners, but I did get permission for a full
> Saturday.
>
> As I'm an early riser, and closer to the airport than
> Daun, I headed down to the airport to collect the
> Special Mystery Guest arriving from LA...after a brief
> search, The Potterman and I caught up with each other
> at 6:30am, and headed North.  Cool chat, stopped to
> load up a stock of community beer (Potterman got the
> Amstel, I bought the cheap stuff, natch), and arrived
> at Daun's about 8:00.
>
> The contigent of folks crashing at Daun's slowly
> filtered into the garage, some looking a little more
> precarious than others.  Rebecca's cookies helped;
> they were breakfast for some.
>
> And the rain came.
>
> And stopped, and came again.  And stopped again a few
> times, followed immediately by it's return each time.
>
> Somewhere in there I saw a flying a/c compressor.
> Who's was that?
>
> Over the course of the morning, the roc's from the
> hotelers filtered in, filling the grounds.  I counted
> 25 at one point but that was pretty early.  At the
> peak, there were more; how many I don't know.
>
> I barely had a chance to look at what cars were there
> during a brief lull in the rain, and I was hailed from
> the garage ("Hey...you Cheapass Ron?")...after a very
> brief introduction, Brian McGarvey commandeered my
> keys and pulled my car into the garage...that man
> takes COMMAND, let me tell you...and I was left to
> gaze in wonder at this rather large human flurry, and
> could only pull out the parts for the passenger side
> mount swap.  Brian - (darn I forget your last name -
> very sorry - Haygood?) was his right-hand man, and a
> good one. Things proceeded quickly and efficiently.
> Except for my forgetting the control arm bushings
> after Brian had almost completed pulled the damn thing
> off.
>
> Left to my own, as nobody would let me lift or do
> anything, Frank Jones, who showed up to help, started
> to pull apart the passenger seat that Eric Night
> Shadow Soltwede and lovely g/f (sorry, I forgot the
> name) dragged out intact from Colorado (I told you to
> strip that thing man!) (the seat).  Rebecca dove in as
> well, she's no slouch with hand tools (no comments
> here about working bottoms vs. backs or a walk to the
> barn for goodies). An hour or so later, these two
> converted my typically trashed driver's seat into a
> new-looking (and feeling) one...shoulda made this a
> tech procedure.  A WONDERFUL job.
>
> Frank, glad you didn't get that ticket.  Scirocco's
> must be blessed.  Or was it your honest face?
>
> Dan Snow toted a hood I had bought by installing it on
> his car, and driving it from Florida.  He and Frank
> Jones did the swap, putting my trashed (and souvenir
> footprinted) hood on Dan's car so he head back to
> gator-land where he can trash it.  These guys were
> meticulous.
>
> Thanks Alee for pulling that fender on the A2, I
> didn't get a chance to say so at Daun's.
>
> Jim Mikesh always seemed to be lending me a hand
> somewhere.  He carried my toolbox more than I did.
> Thanks.
>
> Frank Jones, Brian Haygood?, Jim Mikesh, Rebecca
> "Bob's fiance"...thanks, what a load of great folks,
> special thanks to Brian McGarvey and of course Daun.
> Everybody else...Allyn, Neal, Foxx, Drew, Pete, Scott,
> Potterman, dozens more...great to meet you.
>
> It's getting long...I'll sign off.
>
> Ron
> PS I'll vote for myself for "Most Improved Car" during
> Cincy 2K+1.  I got a hood, a seat, and a motor mount
> for the price of lunch.  And I hardly lifted a finger.
>
>
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