Armando
You broke you tranny but I broke mine on a race track. Breaking the POS T-5 did not upset me that much except it broke on the second lap and cut my day short.
We missed you but we went on and tried to break every cobra there. The Carnage was starting to get scary.
I broke my Tranny on my second lap and I was the first on the track. so I started the bad luck.
Tom Jones had destroyed his cam gear and his distributor but his wife pulled a miracle by writting a big check to get her husbands toy back running so he could attend the event. It was pretty in it's new red paint job. Late in the day it started missing and Mrs. Jones tore the red flag out of the flagmans hand and ran the Cobra down and protected her big investment before Tom broke it again.
Mike Iodice was the only one to
oil the track down but it was his power rack that busted a seal. Serves him right for having power steering on a cobra.
Tom Powell smoked his Clutch as did Jerry Miller in his SPF with an Aluminum 427.
Dan Fortin started hearing what sounded like a spun bearing so he shut it down. This was the second time in two trips to gainesville he had motor problems. At least he was fast and Ed Boothman let him drive his Porsche Carrerra 4 a few times.
I have to give props to Lorrie Pomroy for feeling sorry for me and trusting me with the keys to her 2003 Cobra Mustang for a set of 5 laps. I was so nevious driving that car my right leg was shaking but it was fun. The car had much more that I was willing to wring out of it. Jim Pomroy rode with me and kept telling me to shift a 6500 but I granny shifted at 5500. That is one awsome production car.
Chris Bailey has one cool FFR with a really nice 383 Stroker motor he built in his kitchen(bet his landloard loves him). He ran strong and only had problems when driving back to the Hotel. He and I spent the knight searching for a sutable alternator to allow him to make the 4 hour drive home sunday. We did get to see a pair of drunks do everything in their power to pi$$ off Gainesville's finest at Auto Zone. I had to hold Chris back as he wanted to bust the door down to the bathroom and extract one of the drunks who was holed up there for about 30minutes. Chirs will try and say I was flirting with a young College student working in a Biestro we stopped at but I think she was interested in Chris.