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03-02-2002, 10:35 PM
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What is the meaning of life?
Bob Putnam
My car is running good, and have no pending projects oher than looking for special Metric masking tape to stuff into the back of the Hi-beam indicator lamp.
Once that is done, I am all set.
So I thought I would take the time to ask you if YOU know the meaning of life? Please don't say "Kayaking"!!
I just didn't want you to sit there idle.This should give you something to do!
TURK
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03-02-2002, 11:27 PM
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Turk, How much is your car for sale for??? I figure you can get a package deal with Jamo and the former ERA535 for new Kirhams and would want to pass on some savings to a poor old refinery worker like me  You could put ERA535 into a locked room with David and have the edge in any negotiation!! 
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03-02-2002, 11:35 PM
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Mine isn't for sale. I am hanging on to mine. I can't give up my ability to torture Bob Putnam from time to time that easily.
TURK
ps. besides Selling the car off to Bakersfield wouldnt be exactly what I had in mind for it's ultimate resting place. I have to give it a better home than Bakersfield, Fresno and Modesto. It has to go to Cannes, Monaco or Akron OH, or some place like that. NOT Bakersfield.
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03-03-2002, 11:42 AM
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Turk:
If Bob is sitting around idle, picking lent out of his belly button, he can do a little engineering on the T-44 gearbox goldtrac dif project ... something that might help get a few MKII's out the door. (He did fess up that he had overslept yesterday morning and only got over to the shop at 6:25 am) ...but then he's getting on and a little nap every now and then "refreshes" him).
Ran into Cheeks (a/k/a McFez) up at the shop. He has apparently bludgeoned Bob into engineering a few modifications to the ERA rear which he is retrofitting to his ERA427SC... something about even bigger, bigger brakes for Ol' 99.
Actually it was a busy place up there yeaterday; a couple of cars getting shipped, folks wandering around looking at the cars, writing checks, the usual Saturday morning.
Mort MacTavish
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03-03-2002, 11:52 AM
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I bet they like that "check writing part".
Talking about check writing, I suppose I need you write one to you. Do you know how much do I owe you..
If you tell me "The jacket and the shirts are backordered" I will know you have been hanging around there too long and got the lingo down pat!
TURK
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03-03-2002, 02:56 PM
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Turk,
I remember reading this somewhere (paraphrasing a Zen monk):
"Life is such a gas I can hardly stand it."
Lately, for me, life just feels more like gas.
I think I need a vacation. 
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03-03-2002, 03:16 PM
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Bob P.
Sounds like you're becoming a Gashole--we all have those "feelings"...
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03-05-2002, 07:11 PM
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Turk:
Not to worry, when you get the stuff you can send money or payup in Carlisle...
Peter's "Rush'n" ERA289FIA took a sudden left turn on a straight stretch of road when the driver (not Peter) goosed it. (Nothing like trying to drive a 500hp car on DOT "slicks" for the first time in the middle of winter in New England). He took down 25' of cemetery fence and knocked over a telephone pole.
So, you all be careful out there, hear? Things can happen in the blink of an eye.
Mort MacTavish
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03-05-2002, 08:21 PM
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Ouch. Hopefully no one was injured. Is everyone ok? How bad is the Rush'n?
Greg
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03-05-2002, 09:19 PM
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Not good!
I am sorry to hear that.
Thanks for the safety warning. You are sooo right.
TURK
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03-06-2002, 10:49 AM
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Folks:
Fortunately, other than a bump on his head "Steve" was fine. The Rush'n was not so fortunate. Hopefully the frame (other than the front "irons") can be reused/straightened as well as drivetrain etc. The body will have to be replaced. The windshield glass was cracked but the frame is fine, etc. All in all not as bad as it could have been, but will require that the car be taken completely apart. Our boy Steve managed to hit all four sides of the car in his journey to (but fortunately not into) the cemetery.
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03-06-2002, 12:47 PM
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Jim,
This is not good news to hear and I am certianly glad that Steve is ok. Cars can be rebuilt. It is amazing that he is ok. Taking out 25' feet of old New England cememtary fencing is not a job for the faint of heart. They used real steel back then for fencing. If it was rock they used really big rocks and if it was wood, well then it was old wood and probably fell a part pretty quick.
How your story relates to the thread is clear. The meaning of life in some part does not include running your car off the road into various objects.
Turk,
Are you noting this. I expect a full discourse on the meaning of life from you at some point soon. Please include what is not included in the meaning of life and use this as an example.
ERA kit $19,000
Tires $1,000
Running car into things $Costly
Having your first Drive in Cobra $Priceless -- (unless you run into something then see above)
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03-06-2002, 01:15 PM
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Turk,
42
(apologies to D. Adams)
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03-06-2002, 02:49 PM
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Little did I know when I started this thread (just to keep Bob P. on his toes, and also to annoy him) that a week or so down the road, it would have some not so funny extensions to it.
I will think it through next time and not start something that gets away from me and turns serious!!
I hope the bruises to head, car and the egos gets healed soon!
Tom Wells
42?
I am lost now! Is that Hoiw old you are?
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03-06-2002, 05:46 PM
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Turk,
I WISH that's how old I am!
Read "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" and you'll find out that the answer to THE question about "life, the universe and everything" is 42.
Can't say any more.
Tom
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03-07-2002, 07:35 PM
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Folks:
Without being too maudlin about it, last week was one of those weeks... Four funerals (it's a hazard of my profession), the youngest age 61 and the oldest age 94 and I can truly say that in each and every case death came too early...
All to be capped off by the Rush'n Affair.
The point (to state the obvious) is that life is, at best, fleeting. We only go around once and in the end all we truly own is the time allotted to us (and we never know how much of that we're going to get.)
So, let's each of us deal with that which we must and enjoy the time given us...
For the rest is but sand through our fingers.
As to the Rush'n? By yesterday it was stripped down and back at the shop to get the frame straightened... and Steve is back at work (maybe a little older and a lot wiser).
Jim Holden
PS: The Rush'n before the "Affair" looked like this:
http://www.erareplicas.com/cars/rushin.htm
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03-07-2002, 10:03 PM
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Jim Holden
Very serious and very profound my friend. It takes a serious event such as death to make one think a little differently at things that probably were not that important to begin with.
I have to display my ignorance in here, but there is a first for everything. What is with "Rusn'n"?
Can they clean that car up and hang some side pipes and send it to Jim Wheaton, and tell him his car got done a little earlier than planned. he wouldn't know the difference!
TURK
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Turk:
Cripes Turk, you've let the cat out of the bag now. Sure hope JW is not checking this thread.
The Rush'n, so named because it was put together in a hurry from assorted parts lying around PEPI P.'s attic so that we would have a "driver" for the SAAC convention at Lime Rock, has/had a stroker 351 backed up by a rock crusher mag case 4 speed with "dog clutch" gear engagement with ERA's big brake front and ERA outboard brake rear. A beast indeed! (Much like it's owner).
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Make sure they check the color is the same as the one JWheaton ordered. He won't know the difference!
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03-08-2002, 11:49 AM
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This is the meaning you silly twit !
Here is the meaning of life...or one of the meanings.... 
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