My local classic car club got lucky with great weather this weekend. we started in the northern Illinois and headed up into the back roads of Wisconsin. Drive some good roads and ate some great food. The Handen distillery in Cedarburg Wisconsin was very cool. Here are some cool cars that where on the trip.
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Wisco Ricky! How's that Ghia running? Looks great. So do you.
350 miles of Autumn Bliss. I forgot the post a pic of the Fiat Dino. 
That Dino is a pretty car, Marty!
I like that Ghia for sure... 
Panhandle Bob posted:That Dino is a pretty car, Marty!
Yeah,. This guy seems to show up in a different cool Italian car every time I run into him.
So, Rich's Ghia actually does exist? Looks good...
I would have LOVED to have seen that incredible caravan in person! Personalities to match, I'm sure! Awesome - thanks for the post!
Marty, thanx for sharing these PICs. Must have been cool to follow these cars in a beautiful country road.
Found another cool one. The light grey Jaguar(not sure what year). Older couple drove all weekend top down.
Hard core as it was like 40f in the early hours.
Define, “older couple”, cowboy.
Stan Galat posted:Define, “older couple”, cowboy.
70 something
Very cool. Is the 356 coupe original?
sethsaccocio posted:Very cool. Is the 356 coupe original?
Yes, and it was beautiful. Especially the interior.
Sweet!
Marty Grzynkowicz posted:Stan Galat posted:Define, “older couple”, cowboy.
70 something
Define "something".......be careful.
Panhandle Bob posted:Marty Grzynkowicz posted:Stan Galat posted:Define, “older couple”, cowboy.
70 something
Define "something".......be careful.
Maybe older. 🥺
I'm a heck of a lot closer to 70 than 35. That hurts to think too long about.
Marty Grzynkowicz posted:Stan Galat posted:Define, “older couple”, cowboy.
70 something
Thanks, Marty... 
I see a lot of different hardware come to these road rally events. This particular club focus is on European cars dated pre 90. There are always cool cars that we all drool over but I thought "what is the best machine for these rally's"
My conclusion was the Porsche 944 turbos. They can keep up with the 911's and handle so much better. They are by far less finicky. They also have a ton of storage for long weekends. The 944 guys are never farting with their engines burning oil or blowing smoke out the back. I know the sound is not the same and for some the look. But, for a hardcore backroad reliable fun car I think they are hard to beat. Somebody post what they think is better. Remember, Pre 90 European.
Stan Galat posted:I'm a heck of a lot closer to 70 than 35. That hurts to think too long about.
Stan. You know it's just a number, and each decade brings a different perspective on life, which is interesting. Here I am in my early seventies (old according to some on here - wink, wink), and in the last year or two I've taken up riding. I've just now come back from a nice 20 km/12 mile bike ride around our countryside, and enjoyed it immensely. I haven't ridden a bike since early high school, and here I am back at it.
Yesterday we drove top down in fog in our speedster in just above freezing temperatures to get to an automotive flea market, then off for lunch and a beautiful sunny and warmer Autumn drive along coutry roads, through leaves at their full colour.
There ain't much I can't do now that I did a few decades ago, and life can be sweeter the further along you get. As part of my doctoral studies years ago, I did a course on adult development and aging, and it has helped me develop a philosophy about getting old that has helped a lot.
Carpe diem...
Hmmmmm.......... So I'm now I'm considered part of an "older couple", huh?
And I suppose my graying-towards-silver hair is some sort of a give-away, right, not to mention Kathy's snow-white hair?
Just remember that when I dress for Halloween trick or treaters as Mr. Fredricksen, I really do look like my Avatar........ YOU, Marty, would need a lot of makeup (and a wig.....and a walker-cane).
Smart-A$$ youngster, anyway.
And that Jag XK120 looks like the car a co-worker drove, and his was a 1953. Handled rather truck-like, hence, the YUGE! steering wheel, but the sound of that straight six was heavenly and the cockpit wind buffeting was surprisingly minimal.
70 is the new young
Boy. you guys are sensitive group. I'm just playing around.
You need to learn to laugh at yourself sometimes
Marty Grzynkowicz posted:Boy. you guys are sensitive group. I'm just playing around.
Who's sensitive? I'm just rippin' on you, bud.
Stan Galat posted:I'm a heck of a lot closer to 70 than 35. That hurts to think too long about.
Sigh... I'm closer to 70 than I am to 55 - barely.
Lane Anderson posted:Stan Galat posted:I'm a heck of a lot closer to 70 than 35. That hurts to think too long about.
Sigh... I'm closer to 70 than I am to 55 - barely.
Well, happy 63rd birthday, Mr. Anderson.
I turned 63 on Saturday- where has the time gone...
I kind of like the Porsche 968 - basically a 944 with a different front end.
Marty:
Just goofin' with you. I just turned 70 and there isn't much I'd change. I did marry a wonderful woman 9 years younger than I am and we had our twins when I was 51.
That was a godsend for a variety of reasons, one being that they have kept me active and hopefully with a an open mind.
I think the 944 Turbo is probably ideal for the kind of stuff you folks were doing. I understand that parts and repairs are pretty prohibitive though.
Glad you had a great weekend. We miss those early fall days in the upper midwest, nothing much better!
Well I had my last at 45 and they do keep you in the game so to speak.
Hey @Panhandle Bob are those two both in Engineering?
We went on a fall color tour yesterday with about 150 other people. Bob Lutz was there with a beautiful Italia. I will post pictures when I get them off of my wife's phone.
The tour departed from the Ann Arbor Porsche dealer. Lutz was already inside the building when we arrived. His Italia was parked with the top down in a light rain.
IaM-Ray posted:Well I had my last at 45 and they do keep you in the game so to speak.
Hey @Panhandle Bob are those two both in Engineering?
Greg is at the University of Florida deciding what kind of engineering he wants to pursue. He is there on an Amazon scholarship and will be spending this summer in Seattle on a paid internship at their headquarters. They want him to be in computer science / engineering obviously, but he is currently in love with Lockheed-Martin and hoping for an internship there the following summer.
Matt is at Florida State on several scholarships and looking at communications / public relations / journalism, but I think he may end up teaching. He is deciding among several internships for next summer.
The level of early recruiting and presence on campus of companies looking for STEM students is very high, at least at UF, and I suppose the rest of the schools with a strong STEM focus.
Greg belongs to group called FLEG that requires an evaluation of past academic, public service and leadership experience and a rigorous interview process to be accepted. It is totally focused on engineering and there are literally weekly and bi-weekly mini job fairs and presentations by major companies for just it's members. Lockheed-Martin, Google, Boeing, American Express etc. I had to buy him a second suit and several shirts and ties for all these events.
I have yet to see a Speedster on campus.
Gordon Nichols posted:Hmmmmm.......... So I'm now I'm considered part of an "older couple", huh?
And I suppose my graying-towards-silver hair is some sort of a give-away, right, not to mention Kathy's snow-white hair?
Just remember that when I dress for Halloween trick or treaters as Mr. Fredricksen, I really do look like my Avatar........ YOU, Marty, would need a lot of makeup (and a wig.....and a walker-cane).
Smart-A$$ youngster, anyway.
And that Jag XK120 looks like the car a co-worker drove, and his was a 1953. Handled rather truck-like, hence, the YUGE! steering wheel, but the sound of that straight six was heavenly and the cockpit wind buffeting was surprisingly minimal.
Sorry fella's, it's an XK 150
Good for them.
It does seem that internships abound in US univ. My son is in 1st year MechEng also at GuelphU, near Bob IM-6, and he is getting used to the new work load but enjoying it so far.
I loved my '91 944S2. It was Polar Metallic with Cobalt Blue leather interior. Amazingly comfortable car that handled superbly. The problem I found was finding a well-maintained one. Back when I bought mine (2001), they were at the bottom of their market. Youngsters were picking them up and driving them to high school. While their sale price was approachable, their maintenance prices were not. Fact is, it's still a Porsche. I was fortunate enough to buy mine from a collector outside Philadelphia; that had all the maintenance records. I paid $12,000 for it in February 2001, and by the time I sold it in July 2006, I had $12,000 in maintenance wrapped up in the car. The 30,000mi service was expensive--and I'm sure skipped by a number of the younger kids driving them. But the worst was the bill for a new clutch (which I believe was $3,600 in 2005). Apparently due to the tranny in the back, a simple clutch replacement turns into a 16-hour job.
I loved driving it, but ultimately had to part ways. I struggled with trying to make ends meet while paying the high cost of living in San Francisco, high cost of insurance on the car, paying for a garage coupled with the high maintenance costs of the car---all on a mediocre salary.
