Oops. The car that twice I said I would never get rid of is gone. The final explanation of that is that sometimes ones appetite is bigger than one’s stomach. This car simply got too hard for me, and it was all my own doing. If I had more money it would have stayed in storage forever, probably tuned even harder and driven any less.
And I say driven even less, but that’s probably impossible. In the last few years of it’s time with me I only found a couple opportunities to take this car on a closed course and really enjoy it. It was amazing there, but an embarrassment and pain in the ass on the street. I loved it dearly, but don’t miss it at all now that it’s gone… especially when I see it rolling hard around town all glassed and vinyled up.
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Crab Migration - AngleFactory event 1 was yesterday. With my duties as organizer, I didn't get to drive much. In fact I only did two laps during the event, and only to show a new comer the course (albiet very poorly). Running on the road course, in third gear, I have a gigantic appreciation for the pro's. With speed like that, it's a whole other game. I've actually come away from yesterday quite discouraged, with many regrets about certain aspects of the car, and my lack of time behind the wheel.
Before people showed up, I did about 30 minutes of driving with breaks in between to cool things down. [...]
My car is back on the road. The last few steps in putting it back together went about as easily as they can on a car of this age. There has been no love lost. I'm really lucky to have found such an example of 86. Several people have pointed out that despite all the work I've done, the car hasn't really changed. That's entirely true. It all really wasn't for very much. Differences from last year are as follows:
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