Calling Lane Anderson........

Oooof!

Gordon's just bragging because he's got a perfect summer. Lane starts bragging about his perfect winter in November or so, just when Gordon starts grumbling.

 

You're both just jealous that you can't have lovey weather ALL YEAR LONG!

 

You could live where the average winter temp is about -50 and it snows (not quite 753 ft, but more than enough) AND has gnats, mosquitoes, and 110 heat indexes for three months in the summer. It's really OK, because spring always lasts about 15 or 20 minutes and is generally lovely (as long as it isn't sleeting).

 

We haven't had a town leveled off by a tornado in almost two years (well...we have to get to November, but THEN it'll be 2 years). It's like the Shangrala of the Corn Belt

 

... and corn we have. Miles and miles and miles of GMO corn, broadcast sprayed with Roundup, pretty much on a continual basis. I say, "pay no attention to the herbicide in your ground (drinking) water, you complainer" to anybody who's children or wife dies of cancer. We're stoic that way.

 

Regardless, I've got a deck too Gordon, and I can use it at least 10 or 12 nights nights a year-- all of them in September (before the snow starts flying, but after the first frost has killed off the billions of bugs that attach themselves to the front of my car). All the nice houses have them, we all picture ourselves using them when the crop-dusters are misting the neighborhood, the bugs aren't eating us alive, the sun isn't baking, or the snow isn't flying. You know: 10 or 12 nights in September (when we aren't working, which isn't many nights).

Gordon...I liked your comment about the about the "Scorpion" Fiat.  Years ago I had a a Fiat Abarth Zagato Coupe and used to eat MG A's for breakfast with it ! it was the most fun and beautiful car I ever had until I got my Speedster!.....Bruce

Gordon's allowed to vent some given the winter he had - and will likely have again.  At least I can drive the Speedster when it's hot.  As for a 105 heat index, pfft!  I laugh at 105!  I saw one last week of 120.  At Roebling Road on Monday the track temp was 150.  We still drove.  Gordon's gotten soft since he moved back north of the Arctic Circle.  Yeah, that's my rationalization and I'm sticking' to it.

 

BTW - One of the guys at the track Monday had a 500 Abarth and had a great time with it.

The way I see it is that when it gets hot, women wear less clothing & when it gets cold, they wear more. Stay where you are Lane.

> On Jun 25, 2015, at 6:52 AM, SpeedsterOwners.com <alerts@hoop.la> wrote:
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Yeah, some of the parks downtown are known to attract coeds from the College of Charleston for sunbathing activities.  It can be quite the spectacle.

As a kama`aina from Hawai`i Nei presently living in Colorado, you can both keep your icy MA winter and boiling SC summer.  Back home, we get the sunbathers year-round (not ALWAYS a pleasant sight TBH).  Here in Colorado, it's amazing just how revealing ski sweaters can be ..

 

Oh yeah, and you should see some of the ski bunnies switching to short shorts or even bikinis for April/May skiing ...

Mmmmm, ski bunnies!

That's the part I like about spring skiing.....

Gordon

A Fiat Abarth is my daily driver.  Go cart like handling.  Very quick and great gas mileage.  Fun little car.

BTW Carlo Abarth and Ferry Porsche teamed up for some projects back in the day.  The Porsche-Cisitalia connection.

Lane, I don't think you were baking in the sun too much at Roebling in your Bimmer with the AC on. Try it top down in the Speedster and get back to us.....

 

It has been nice weather for us up here(about 200 miles from Gordon) and I have been driving a fair bit.

 

I'm supposed to do an autocross tomorrow but it really doesn't look good at all, looks like it will be WET.

Yeah, today's the day for New England.  Local club is having a BIG clambake/BBQ in Mystic, Connecticut, today.  Everyone should be safely home before the rain comes And then tomorrow is a wash-out.  

 

We've had about the perfect amount of rain, here......the vegetable garden is looking terrific.  A large part of it I have set up with a drip irrigation system fed by a rain barrel.  

Enjoy Gordon.  Meanwhile, I am sanding and sealing 150 year old pine floors in our house...but it's raining like mad here, anyway.

I'll take my 356 days of warm sunny weather all day long! Although this was 1992, the background scenery is still the same...a new batch every day!

 

Bob:  I grew up in one of those houses.  Step through the door and you walked right into the 1730's.  

 

Rainy and cold this morning with temps in the mid-50's.  We all keep wondering when the hell Summer will arrive.  My pool may be warm enough to swim in around Labor Day....

We're praying for rain out here on the (no longer) 'wet coast'.

No wonder Henry is smiling in this photo, he finally gets to test drive 356's with the top down.

 

Marty:  With temperatures predicted to be at or above 100F for this weekend, Henry may leave the tops up for some shade.

 

 

 

  Obviously Henry doing some fine tuning on Marty's car. 

All the while sporting' some crazy shorts and a fashionable set of gloves.  Quite the fashion plate there, Henry.

Marty's car always demands people wear gloves...

 

I guess finger print oil might damage the paint surfaces

Is that a big pipe wrench in this hands?

Yeah, and you should see his BFH, too!

I guess that's what you need to fix a water cooled engine.