[V8] Random thought

[Coleman, David]

Hah!  Scheider's in a 10th Anniversary T/A, IIRC... No, our parking garage isn't really conducive to that kind of craziness.  At least not in a car I car about...

-dc-




> -----Original Message-----
> From: v8-bounces at audifans.com 
> [mailto:v8-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of Buchholz, Steven
> Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 1:49 PM
> To: v8 at audifans.com
> Subject: Re: [V8] Random thought
> 
> .... funny, I saw that "Blue Thunder" was on "Dish" over the 
> weekend ... I almost watched it but didn't really have time 
> ... reading this reminds me of the parking garage sequence in 
> that movie ... 
> 
> Steve B
> San José, CA (USA)
> > 
> > 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...
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