Carlisle 2013

Quick ride home, few small rain drops for a fe2w minutes, blue tape attached, and carbs running crappy for a while and OK for a while -- but that is to be another story.  Meanwhile, my thanks yet again to Hot Foot and her husband ECB for directing such a great weekend. Thurs and Fri were spectacular, and the "formal" business of Saturday was very well done too. Two thumbs WAY up!!  Two clutch cables, one fuel pump and a carb tear-down, plus what-all-else I do not know seemed about average.  Sure missed Leon, Dave and their Mrs's.  Great, great time.  Bro' Bruce was (rightly) impressed w/ our brand of madness.

SOme pics:

and a few others

At our peak, early Saturday we had nine TDs, plus a surprise visitor (Bob!) with the Nova Scotian TF.

Also, the first annual MG vs Porsche memorial AutoX extravaganza went off very much in a historically accurate fashion, with four TDs raging around the track in a bid for second place behind the lone Spyder. It was like 1952 all over again.

Amazingly, no one broke anything! (Except that one guy with the Miata)

And I understand Cory won the Standard of Excellence judging.

Hoopty has indeed, come a long way!

I just wanted to thank all of the great folks at Carlisle this weekend who welcomed Amy and myself into the group and made us feel right at home.  We had a terrific time meeting everyone and getting a little taste of "the madness".  Special thanks to Nolan and Alan for letting me get behind the wheel as well as all of the others that let us catch rides over the weekend.  This is truly a great group of people and we look forward to returning to Carlisle again with my car (whenever that may be!)  However, we had so much fun that we will probably come back next year even if it's not ready.

A great weekend.  Thank you Bruce and Norma and all of the team for the great organization of the event and so graciously welcoming Jami and I to the group.  We certainly expect to make this an annual event. We have made some great new friends and saw some great cars built with blood, sweat, tears and whole lot of love.   And yes, we can officially call ourselves members as Jami and I took delivery from Carey of our new Beck  Speedster just in time to participate on the cruises through the winding roads and hills of Pennsylvania. 

Hi Everyone!! Just wanted to send a shout out to Norma, Bruce and all the gang for a fun weekend. We didn't get a chance to participate in the cruise on Friday evening but plan on trying to get that in next year. We beat the rain Saturday evening thanks to my fierce driving skills ;-) and can't wait to see you all again.

Made it home with no problems. Drove the whole way without the side curtans and only had a couple of very light "spritzes" with no real rain.  Tired - woke up and 1:30 AM infront of the PC. 

THANKS to everyone who attended and made this another successful event.  Fabulous turnout, even Friday was huge.  We put the pressure on the restaurants and all three came through.  Super job by Jim Chichi and Chuck Martin with the Friday cruise of "Gold Mine Run", Bruce Larson's personal museum and Stoney Creek Inn - thanks guys for a fun day.    

THANKS again to the manufacturer sponsorship of Intermeccanica, Special Edition, Inc., JPS Motorsports, Specialty Auto-Sports, Inc., and Vintage Speedsters who made the 10th celebration extra special.     

Long distance awards were handed out at the Saturday evening awards dinner.  The recipients were: Longest distance traveled - MG: Bob from Nova Scotia (sorry, missed his last name); Longest distance traveled - Spyder: Lenny Cuccureddu; Longest distance traveled - Coupe: Maggie Martin; Longest distance trailered - Speedster: Al Gallo; Longest distance driven - Speedster: Nolan Scott.    

There was never any question, but now it's official. From Carlisle Productions web site:

2013 Club Challenge Winners

2013 Kit Car Clubs
1-Speedster Owners - 59
2-Manx Club - 11
3-Avenger-Valkyrie Registry - 5

2013 Import Car Clubs
1-Saabs @ Carlisle - 251
2-The Audi Club - 92
3-Volvo Club of America - 88

Just in case you missed the autocross on Saturday, here's the time winner and his three month in the making Sharpie "paint job"...sorry, I forgot to ask his name, I was too in awe of his work. Maybe some of you guys could add it here if you know him. A nice young lad too.

Here's Alan and Ross, bright and early Friday morning, fixing Carl Berry's fuel pump problem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...amp;feature=youtu.be

The VW autocrosser is David Ascheman. His dad Bill was with us, owns a TD replica.

He stripped his VW GTI of anything not necessary to run. Took over a thousand pounds out of the car. No internal engine mods, straight pipes, aftermarket air intake.

We all thought he won, with the only time under 24 seconds. Turns out he finished second to a race prepared TR6.

Thanks, Syl and Maggie for leading me back to the hotel and your entertaining brake lights

Hey, Paul, David Ascheman won in my book, a kid who seems to have his head screwed on straight.

Chuck got a chuckle (really, he did) out (you can see him laughing, right?) of my window sign on Friday morning.

This looks loud!!  What's it from?  

Entertainment for the downtown Harrisburg pedestrians:

I did a little bit of Google Maps back tracking of our Friday run. I think I now understand where we went. GREAT DRIVE! Thanks, Jim!

I missed everyone this year - a first communion to attend in the family.  The photos look great and the weather looks like it held out for the meat of Saturday!!!  Hope to be back next year.    Andy

Our pleasure Rich. Thanks for hanging out with us on the show field. We enjoyed talking and getting to know you a bit and putting a face with the great art/graphics we have been seeing all these years.

Maggie loves your 911. Her response to it may be that little bump in momentum toward our owning one. Thanks again. -- Syl

Danny P, tearing up the autocross track, at least most of it :-)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...amp;feature=youtu.be

Chew 'em up, Danny!!

I gotta try this one year.  Get some heat in those brakes.

I think this all goes w/ that fine 6 cyl.  Damn cool stuff.

Norma's photos - 222 - are posted here:

https://picasaweb.google.com/normasview/201305Carlisle?authkey=Gv1sRgCKW94bLHm8CWzgE&feat=email#

Jim Youngs offered to do a photo spread in teh next issue of Kit Car Builder magazine but the deadline is this week.  If you took photos at Carlisle please post them on the Web on Photobucket, Picasaweb or somewhere else and send me the link so I can forward to him.  Thanks.  

Great photos Bruce.  Thanks to everyone that worked so hard to put this years event together.  It was great!  Thanks also to the companies for there contributions for the posters, cake, cash and hors d'oeuvres at the banquet.

Bill

http://www.flickr.com/photos/h...s/72157633549636692/

Harry Blanchard 

More Auto X phone vid. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axcWje5QP3g

Hope to re-edit when I get some inside-the-cockpit vid from Jim.

You know, I have a picture or two from my iPhone, but they're no where near as good in framing and setup as those linked above.  You guys did a terrific job and caught the essence of the whole weekend!

THANK YOU!

Gordon

The Speedstah Guy from Grafton

I found these phots in the Carlisle Flikr file:

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ohh, man - that 917 replica looks niiiiice.  any more pictures of it?

Got home in SoCal late last nite after a few mechanical plane fixes and tornado related weather delays.

Thanks to ECB, Norma, Dr. Clock, Jim Y. and everyone who helped put 2013 SOC @ Carlisle together. It was great to see all my knucklehead SOC friends and hanging out with new friends in the process.

The 2013 Carlisle video is in progress at Pineapplehead Productions. This is a very time-consuming process so it may take a while, but a few new gimmicks and angles will make it one of the best productions yet!

Peace-Out!

Ready when you are C.B. ......    Sorry to have missed it all....   I'm  impressed with Danny's show on the track as well as Corey's win...(nice going guys.)  Missed all you regulars, and wish I could have met the "newbies".....   Well there's always next year...(If I don't croak.)  Lane, Lane, Lane,,,,,You don't need a six foot breaker bar for the jet holders, when a three footer will do....   

I only have a 2-footer.  I guess those trips to the gym did help after all.

Ok, here's the link to a slideshow of my pictures: http://s53.photobucket.com/use...rlisle%202013?sort=2

You can get to the individual ones at http://s53.photobucket.com/use...13?sort=2&page=1

Thanks Lane-great slide show.

Thanks, Lane (Dwayne), fine job 

wow - great pictures!

I think Norma's pictures are fantastic.  It was quite a gathering and all of you who are into these cars should plan on coming at least once, even if you fly in.  It's more about the people than the cars.