Re: Ramblings....and Snow & Ice

[Mike Zamikhovsky <MikeZ755@sprintmail.com>]

Phoenix wrote:
> 
> Well, having just returned from the awards of Snow & Ice, I must say,
> I'm most impressed with the Audi showing there.....
> 
> First of all....the road to the rally.....
> 
> My sons have been doing the rally series since September in their
> 4KQ's...well, this week, the Audi gods decided there would be two less
> Q's in the Snow and Ice.....Stephen's car quit last Sunday......after
> replacing the battery, the alternator....it still won't start and seems
> to have a mysterious problem witht the magic "blue" wire......
> 
> Then, Raymond's Q was running rough and it appeared to need new wires
> and dist. cap.  After changing those the night before the rally, Dad
> takes the car for a short test drive and the tired motor decides this is
> it and throws a rod through the front of the block!  Dad has never, in
> all his years of racing, done a motor in like that and he was babying
> the damned thing to boot.
> 
> So....it's midnight and we have to decide what cars will run the rally.
> Raymond's navigator elects to take his Toyota.....no problem....Stephen
> and his navigator elect to take the spare Audi....the 1981 4000 with
> 300+K miles on it......
> 
> To make a long story short....Stephen and Dennis lose the entire exhaust
> system on the 4000 (left it in Contoocook)......and still beat all their
> friends and their brother in the rally!  How, you say?  Sheer luck, I
> say.....sheer talent say others.....
> 
> At any rate.....congrats to all those from the q-list who ran so
> well....it was great to see Bob Weintraub and daughter, Paul
> Royal...(they looked at your car, Paul....but I think you are not
> cursed).....Glenn Lawton, Bob D'Amato, Bob Davis, Mark Besso.....Mike
> Collier, the Ciesla's......Chris Semple and Stott Hare......and the many
> I don't even know......
> 
> AND.....happy 20th to my two boys who celebrated their birthday with you
> all today at Snow & Ice, '98......
> 
> Take care.
> 
> Trish Blethen



Now that it is over all the participants may have some sympathy for 
contestants of Swidish rally that ended today. It was -11 degrees C  at 
times and those guys and girls actually had to drive fast.

Mike Z