[V8] Random thought

Sat Feb 10 20:59:56 EST 2007

Well since you ask, it's like this:  

I live about a mile from work, so I take the extended version of the commute when I drive the V8 so he can properly clear his throat and keep his motor clean, so to speak (yes mine's male).  So I've picked out a still-too-short but sweet route that includes a parking garage, a twisty 2-lane blacktop bisecting a big field, a couple flat-out-in-3rd corners, a mile of I-95, and a nutso 2nd gear uphill lefthander with wide run-off.  I even have timing checkpoints throughout for two average speeds (35 and 50 -- I won't bore you with the details). Sometimes it's a total bust, as I want to maintain the relative anonymity the V8 provides. But sometimes it's just perfect, and my drive home last night was one of those times. 

Though yesterday's run included a bunch of donuts in the only remaining evidence of snow around the Delaware valley here (sorry upstate NY) -- which happened to be on the top level of my office's paerking garage.  It's just a coating, but with 255-17 Maypops for tires it was a hoot.  I gotta spring for new rubber but am still waiting for the deal of a century on 9" HRE jobs.  Since I'll take 17" or 18", s'long as the offset is in the low 30s, I'm holding off on tires..

ANYway, it was just an extra-fun drive -- no traffic, no beeps from the V1, two solid four wheel drifts, and a jaunt to 140 followed by an 80-to-zero exercise of the 996 calipers just reaffirmed how cool these cars can be.   Wrapped up with the sweet aroma of burning clutch and brakes on the slow cool-down drive through my neighborhood...

<Disclaimer:  in no way do I support or condone unsafe blah blah blah...>

-DaveC. 
Mit Fahrfergnugen and an affinity for hyphens, it would seem

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-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Kellock
To: Coleman, David; jward.v8 at gmail.com; v8 at audifans.com
Sent: Sat Feb 10 13:33:02 2007
Subject: RE: [V8] Random thought

I gotta know...

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> Scarily so...
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> =8^D
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy Ward
> To: Coleman, David; v8 at audifans.com
> Sent: Sat Feb 10 10:23:38 2007
> Subject: RE: [V8] Random thought
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> Reading between the lines, DaveC does something very illegal 
> on his way home form work Friday night and doesn't want a 
> permanent record of his guilt on the internet...
> 
> Am I close?  ;-)
> 
> - Jeremy
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: v8-bounces at audifans.com 
> [mailto:v8-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of Coleman, David
> Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 5:26 PM
> To: v8 at audifans.com
> Subject: [V8] Random thought
> 
> Man oh man, I eff-word-ing love my V8. 
> 
> -DaveC. 
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