[s-cars] NAC: Watkins Glen - Vintage Festival

[Dave Kase]

So...you think you're Snoopy?  

Kase



pkrasusky at ups.com wrote:
> NAC insofar as the closest thing "Audi" was the shirt I wore and the one UrQ we saw @ the gate.  But seeing as my Glen Vintage adventure started by meeting Mikee Platt @ //SFest2002, it's Audi content enough in my book.
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> Mikee towed me TR3 out to the Glen with his Hemi Magnum, I'd met him way out on MA Pike West late Thurs.  We arrived 4a.m. and caught 3hrs to get to our 9a.m. event on time.  Triumph was this years' featured marque there so they had a 115 car caravan meet up 20mi from the Glen to parade back, with Mikee me navigator - follow the car in front of you he says - he's talented you see.  We were DFL in line (dead f'n last), which allowed much shenanigans bringing up the rear.  YEAH!
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> Parade?  Scoff!  Police escort, closed intersections with wave-on's - we blasted straight through and cruised ~ 50-70.  Got back to the Glen, track went cold, out we go for 'parade' laps.  Parade my arse - we were hitting 80 in some stretches and giving it full opposite lock hell out there, Mikee giggling like schoolgirl and struggling to grasp 'Oh Sh*t Bar' (left turns) and side of door (right turns).  Two laps at speed, then time to stage again while they CLOSE the main street of the Village of Watkins Glen, so we can run the old 6-7mi Vintage course giving it the _full_beans_.  YEAH!
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> A hint of shenanigans is found in http://picasaweb.google.com/pkrasusky/WatkinsGlenVintageFestival908#5243638922094061986 - note my ahem 'line' coming into the famous Stone Bridge.
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> Full JNR'age:
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> http://picasaweb.google.com/pkrasusky/WatkinsGlenVintageFestival908#
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> What a *hoot* this is, streets lined with cheering fans, tires wailing under full drift, WOT blasts up the main drag - and this is encouraged???  NOICE.  We complete our 2.5 laps of the circuit and are all displayed in the park.  NOW time to exploit the Villages lack of open container law, and imbibe within the sights and sounds of the f'n gnarliest vintage cars and racers you can dream of - and yearn to pull bonghits of the wafting race gas fumes permeating the scenery.  YEAH!
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> Back @ WGI, paddock walks only depress you that YOU don't have a quarter meelyun dollah semitruck camper with matching waxed double decker extra long trailer, loaded with cha-ching-age - <<<SIGH>>>.  We did get to meet Peter Klutt which was real cool, and I did manage to ask Vic Edlebrock a question about his daughter's Shelby GT350 - neat.  Our credentials allowed us to crash the drivers cocktail party in the paddock, free HOARS derves, beer, and wine - tho they never checked credentials - we must look im-po-tent or sumptin.  Mikee managed to get shush'd during one of the speeches - haHA!  Midnight strolls (stumbles) through the open garages, surrounded by seemingly trillions of dollars of OMGness.  YEAH!
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> Returning to basecamp, camp fires and mingling with the coolest of the cool gamers you'll find - heck, random campsite next to us had a later night pop in from the owner of a '50s Bentley Coupe, 599GTB, 275GTB, AMDB4 cab, and C Bristol (all his), with his entourage driving the rest...  in the f'n RAIN.  GAMERS!  YEAH!
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> Meeting you sumzabitches wayway back in 8/02 and starting all 'this'... priceless.  Great times with greater doodzez!  YEAH!  Domo Oregato Mr. Rossato was supposed to join us but unfort. was summoned back across the pond - damn.  Bob no worries - a keen eye found you WERE in fact there with us, just needed to know where to look:
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> http://picasaweb.google.com/pkrasusky/WatkinsGlenVintageFestival908#5243650414849888722
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> Looking forward to the 'next' time, whatever whenever whereever it is.  YEAH!
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> -Paul
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