Re: How to be a REAL Alfa Racer

[Alan Lambert <lechefgerard@domain.elided>]

 Memo of a great weekend:
 
 Spent $540 getting the brakes on the GTV-6 renewed (the rear brakes I
 let a mechanic install for $250, they're too hard without a lift. The 
rest  was rotors and pads.)
 
 Sent $295 to SCCA for Saturday's passing clinic and Sunday's time
 trial.
 
 Drove 4 hours in traffic to the track (Thunderhill) late on    
Friday--driving reasonably fast on 505, came closer to
 a white car in front of me (maybe 1/4 mile away) which swerved onto
 the shoulder. After I passed the white car, it turned back on the Hwy 
 and turned on its red light. 
 
 WARNING!!CHP now has "in motion" radar front and back. Told me I was  
 going 87, wrote me for 80 (in a 70). 
 
 Got to the motel, registered, and went for gas. Whoops--the gas cap
 was left behind at some previous stop. Stuffed the gas pipe full of
 plastic, hoping that would do the trick of sealing. Went to sleep. 
 
 Showed up at the track at 8:00--the tech guy didn't spy my "gas cap",
 so out I went for the first of the lead follow, pass be passed
 sessions. 
 
 On the second lap, some big round object (probably a stone) came
 sailing through the air and made a big bang as it hit the top of the
 windshield while I was doing about 80. 
 
 After 1 1/2 of these sessions, the corner workers spied gas
 coming out of the tank and black flagged me. Spent the rest of the   
morning (starting at 10:30) going to all three parts stores in Willow  
and found nothing even remotrely capable of being a gas cap for a   
GTV-6. 
 
 Tried to call a couple of alfisti friends, one of who was coming up
 the next day, to somehow get a lead in Sacramento, or whatever. Got
 nothing but voice mails. Decided (at 12:30) that I had no way to know 
 if the friend would bring a cap for the next day since I had only   
gotten his voice mail. Said the hell with it, and drove the 3  hours  
back home. (faster without traffic to deal with)

 GREAT weekend!
 
 oh yes--the windshield now has a significant hole/break in it.
 
 now wasn't THAT fun?
 
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 ciao

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Best Regards,

Alan Lambert
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