[V8] No affiliation(also)

[Bryan Kamerer]

So first off, yeah with pics it's hard to tell cayenne from cyclamen.  I
actually owned not one, but TWO cyclamen 5-speeds for like seven years
before I went to get some touch-up paint and realized they were actually
cyclamen, and not cayenne, like I had thought!  If lighting allows, I'll
snap a pic of my cyclamen V8 5-spd tomorrow for reference.

And on to Tom's post, two things:

1) I owe Tom a  belated apology and thanks, he sent me a nice Xmas gift,
some kinda magnetic LED light thing for working in dark places.  I bet it
will prove helpful when at some point.  What a nice guy.  And I'm a heel for
not acknowledging it until now.

2) His comment:

but would love an excuse to drive back up thru
> my old stomping grounds in a pretty shiny red car


Yeah baby. Oh yeah.  BTDT.  I recall about '96, I lived in NYC and arranged
a business trip over thanksgiving weekend to SF, and my wife the same time.
  We took the next few days off (my birthday).  I rented a deep metallic red
Jaguar XJ-6 from Hertz (more cayenne than cyclamen, for the record), and
drove it as hard as I dared up the Pacific Coast Highway from SFO to
Mendocino.  And I mean "hard."  Spent two lovely days there, then drove it
hard as hell back to SFO.  What a ball.  I recall at one point on the way
up, I had to pull over for my wife to open the passenger door and puke on
the shoulder - the Jag was so magnificent it could do amazing speeds on
those cliff roads, because of the incredible suspension you were
disassociated from the speed and pitch, you could get vertigo.  As the
driver, I did not, I had my hands on the steering and foot on the power, but
she did not have that connection. For the record, she was no wuss; in fact a
great skier and brave soul, but still the PCH and that Jag got the better of
her.  Damn she was a trooper.  Wish she had not divorced me, but that's a
whole 'nuther indelicate story.

Now the funny part of the story is of course they did not rent those things
without severe mileage limitations.  When I got back to SFO, the clerk
punched in my figures and then looked up at me a bit worried. She said,
"your four-day rental charge is $250, but there's a $246 mileage charge on
top of that."  She looked like I was going to argue, go ballistic, or
something worse.  I just smiled and said, "Yeah, I know.  It was my
birthday."  She relaxed instantly, and I had another funny memory to add to
the trip.

Now I know of course Kneale is going to tell us how he took a Jag out
lobster fishing once, and of course it caught a great white.  But then there
was this guy who had been on the Indianapolis back in '45, survived, etc..
;)

And I want to hear Kneale's story...

Bryan


PS Tom- I'd say if you are in SeaTac tomorrow let's meet, but I am hosting
some friends' kids for a horse day in the park over here all afternoon.
 What time are you going to SeaTac?



On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 10:49 PM, toml99 at todomundo.com <toml99 at todomundo.com
> wrote:

> I'm taking a friend to the airport early to fly to SF......which is
> why I couldn't help myself about checking out the car.....
> 207K.....tranny leak.....rear wheel bearing issue.....no comment on
> the belt.....Anyone on the list in Berkley/Oakland.....I passed on
> the trip due to money, but would love an excuse to drive back up thru
> my old stomping grounds in a pretty shiny red car....friend on the
> trip know's nothing about cars..........Tom
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