[s-cars] Runnin on empty

[CaptMagu at aol.com]

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Catchy title, wasn't it? Here I am at all of 12,000ft in a little ATR 72 on 
my way to the Bahamas. I thought I'd throw some more driving impressions out 
there so if you don't want to hear go ahead and delete this e-mail. In case you 
weren't watching the weather last week, Denver got hit with a nice little snow 
storm. There was a lot more snow up Evahboost way but the best part was the 
cool temperatures. Speaking of the Evahboost snow, I had put on a new set of 
Toyo T1Ss several weeks ago. My wife informed me that we got about 16 inches of 
snow but the roads were clear. Clear that is until I got to my driveway. There 
was what remained of the snow, packed and slushy on my long climbing 
driveway. Well, up the driveway I went with nary a burp or, slide as the case may be. 
So, I can recommend the Toyos in emergency snow use.

Back to the cool driving. The temperature Saturday morning was 32 degrees and 
the car with its new fueling system and larger injectors and new custom 
programming was awesome. It is simply violent as it accelerates. When I got to the 
airport, I pulled off to emplyee parking on a secondary road that some of you 
may remember from years ago in another muse concerning a Delta Captain and his 
new Porsche C4S. I'm still on a quest for a tubular exhaust manifold if 
anyone sees one out there.

I want you guys to be thinking of me the next 2 weekends because I have 2 
track events back to back. On Sunday the 2nd of May I'm at 2nd Creek Raceway in 
Denver with the Rocky Mountain BMWCCA. Someone has to get out there and play 
with those M5s and M3s. That will be a good warm-up for the next weekend when I 
go to Pike Peak International Raceway for some type of open track day with a 
bunch of NASA guys and ASW customers. This was an invitational event and there 
will be lots of eye and track candy such as Vipers, Ferraris, Z06 Vettes, 
Porsches, plus who knows what else. I'm in the 2nd from the top run group and 
there's supposed to be a few full race cars in that group. The top group will just 
about be all race cars such as several Porsche GT3 Cup cars. That's all for 
now kids.

Hap, lookin to go gunnin in Evahboost, Maguire