Worth every bit of frustration, headache and pain over the last year.
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Worth every bit of frustration, headache and pain over the last year.
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That is so freakin' awesome!! Totally killer!! For a while you got me worried there in one of your photo captions where you said in memoriam for Parnelli Jones; thankfully the guy is still alive and kickin'...
I am so proud for you, dude! That has got to be an incredible feeling. I can't wait to see it.
By God it's the Home Depot Boys ! Oh what a feel'n, Toy ------ ooops that's not quite the jingle:
Hoopty Hop I didn't want ta stop
No speedo I splain, to da donut cop
Built it myself with help of da wrench
Ain't it an eye catcher?
Da right seat.... for da wench
Done in time for Carlisle '07
Six grand rev limiter keeps tings in check
...just a tad from Heaven
Standby for post shake down cruise
Yo gonna hear some bad ass news
0 to 60 just around eleven
Dare I go again, just a tad from....... heaven.
Hoopty Hop I didn't want ta stop
No speedo I splain, to da donut cop
Built it myself with help of da wrench
Ain't it an eye catcher?
Da right seat.... for da wench
Done in time for Carlisle '07
Six grand rev limiter keeps tings in check
...just a tad from Heaven
Standby for post shake down cruise
Yo gonna hear some bad ass news
0 to 60 just around eleven
Dare I go again, just a tad from....... heaven.
Oh my God! A rappin' truck driver!
Alan....if I recall correctly it's a 9,000 something rev limiter!!!
boom boom tsche
boom boom tsche
Alan Rocks!
boom boom tsche
Alan Rocks!
Good Golly, Alan! I think you might need to tone down the meds a bit, huh?
I'll see you your dancing songs, and raise you a limerick:
A Speedster builder in P-A
had some high praise for me to-day
He said to me, "I want to see."
I said to him "oh-kay."
So off I flew, like a hammer true
to peen some flat metal shapes.
If the compartment contains the engine
and Maryland air is sent spinnin'
and cold is on top
and hot it is not
then Friday, Sir, I shall see you.
The Wrench did observe
and did I concur
there are parts which've been mushed.
The 'justment's been made,
reducing the play
between parts chapped yes-ter-day.
Bushings've been set,
Torsion's been let
'n the steering's been finely tuned.
All that remains
Apart from the rains,
is to pick out some road-worthy tunes.
I'll see you your dancing songs, and raise you a limerick:
A Speedster builder in P-A
had some high praise for me to-day
He said to me, "I want to see."
I said to him "oh-kay."
So off I flew, like a hammer true
to peen some flat metal shapes.
If the compartment contains the engine
and Maryland air is sent spinnin'
and cold is on top
and hot it is not
then Friday, Sir, I shall see you.
The Wrench did observe
and did I concur
there are parts which've been mushed.
The 'justment's been made,
reducing the play
between parts chapped yes-ter-day.
Bushings've been set,
Torsion's been let
'n the steering's been finely tuned.
All that remains
Apart from the rains,
is to pick out some road-worthy tunes.
I vote for the Cosmonauts photo to be in the 2007 Speedster calendar...Oh yeah ~ Esther
Mike...that is some big GIRLS!!!!~ Esther
Cory -
Hoopty on the road - More power to you, my brutha!
Caption for your pic of you and chief wrench...
"We are two WILD and CRAZY guys go cruising for chicks with our large American bulges (Hoopty tonneau!)."
Hoopty on the road - More power to you, my brutha!
Caption for your pic of you and chief wrench...
"We are two WILD and CRAZY guys go cruising for chicks with our large American bulges (Hoopty tonneau!)."
Jim...I like that!! ~ Esther
I'm going to shoot videos today. We'll see if I can You-Tube them tonight. Never done that before.
Yeah! You Tube it! My mom just gave me a video camera that is too complicated for her to figure out how to use. So I'll give it to my 14 year old daughter for a couple of hours, then have HER show me how it works!
There's a road near here that I'd like to run the spyder up while video-ing (mounting the camera, not holding it...). Its called "Dead Indian Memorial Road." We took some speedstah guys and gals up it during the last SOT run. Fun twisty climbing road with mostly no guardrails and a drop off long enough for you to die of fright before you hit the bottom. Obviously I intend to avoid that particular activity...
angela
There's a road near here that I'd like to run the spyder up while video-ing (mounting the camera, not holding it...). Its called "Dead Indian Memorial Road." We took some speedstah guys and gals up it during the last SOT run. Fun twisty climbing road with mostly no guardrails and a drop off long enough for you to die of fright before you hit the bottom. Obviously I intend to avoid that particular activity...
angela
Angela - can't wait to see THAT video! Maybe you can throw in some "Drifting" action on some of those curves!
BTW - with the recent shift in the legislative branch (post election), I suspect that it won't be long before they change the name of that road (Dead Indian Memorial Road) to the more policitally correct "In-Animate Native American Memorial Road" or your suggestion of "Life-Challenged Native Memorial Road". LOL!!
BTW - with the recent shift in the legislative branch (post election), I suspect that it won't be long before they change the name of that road (Dead Indian Memorial Road) to the more policitally correct "In-Animate Native American Memorial Road" or your suggestion of "Life-Challenged Native Memorial Road". LOL!!
You'll need something like this:
http://www.clamperpod.com/
I'm not connected to those guys (standard disclaimer goes here), but I swear by my Clamperpod. Works on tanks, Humm-Vees and rifle stocks.
We'll see if it works on Hoopties. I just ordered the Clamperpod 2 -- it's got a curved bit for clamping to round stuff. I'll be able to put the camera on my roll bars.
http://www.clamperpod.com/
I'm not connected to those guys (standard disclaimer goes here), but I swear by my Clamperpod. Works on tanks, Humm-Vees and rifle stocks.
We'll see if it works on Hoopties. I just ordered the Clamperpod 2 -- it's got a curved bit for clamping to round stuff. I'll be able to put the camera on my roll bars.
I'm pretty comfortable with that road, Jim, so it wouldn't bother me to drift a bit on it. As a most colorful gentleman at a gas station once informed me : "Ya ain't shakin' sum as$, you ain't really drivin'!"
I about poured gas into the trunk when he said that!
angela
I about poured gas into the trunk when he said that!
angela
I think that might be the guy that put gas in my car last time I drove through Oregon.
I thought he might be an ex-porn star because right before the tank was full, he pulled the nozzle out and sprayed gas all over my car!! LOL! (I've gotten serious mileage outa that joke!)
Peace - Out!
I thought he might be an ex-porn star because right before the tank was full, he pulled the nozzle out and sprayed gas all over my car!! LOL! (I've gotten serious mileage outa that joke!)
Peace - Out!
Angela,
I drove that Dead Indian road last summer in my mother-in-laws Mercury Grand Marquis with two passengers aboard. It was memorable, for my restraint if nothing else (where the hell ARE the wheels on this thing?). Funny how you get used to guardrails here in southern Cal, and then suddenly they are gone and you get to thinking, HOLY CRAP that is steep! I think it is the sight lines being so different. Have had similar experiences on new roads while on a motorcycle.
Sorta like back east where you don't have fences between all the houses - the properties are the same - they just look real different.
I drove that Dead Indian road last summer in my mother-in-laws Mercury Grand Marquis with two passengers aboard. It was memorable, for my restraint if nothing else (where the hell ARE the wheels on this thing?). Funny how you get used to guardrails here in southern Cal, and then suddenly they are gone and you get to thinking, HOLY CRAP that is steep! I think it is the sight lines being so different. Have had similar experiences on new roads while on a motorcycle.
Sorta like back east where you don't have fences between all the houses - the properties are the same - they just look real different.
On my first trip back east (two years ago when my co. hired me) the no fences between properties was the FIRST thing I noticed! I fell in love with that. Now I hate fences between the properties.
Dead Indian Memorial is a wonderful driver's road. Its also a kick in the rear on a bicycle provided the traffic is very light. The speedstah group liked it so much that we'll probably include it in next year's SOT along with a few other tasty bits for our friends.
angela
Dead Indian Memorial is a wonderful driver's road. Its also a kick in the rear on a bicycle provided the traffic is very light. The speedstah group liked it so much that we'll probably include it in next year's SOT along with a few other tasty bits for our friends.
angela
On the gas thing - anybody ever do an unscientific social experiment at a gas station?
Men tend to knock the nozzle on the filler neck before they put it back, and women don't. Watch at random the next time you fill up.
I think it's funny.
Men tend to knock the nozzle on the filler neck before they put it back, and women don't. Watch at random the next time you fill up.
I think it's funny.
Now that you mention it - you're right!
Does it mean anything if you tap it more than twice?
Does it mean anything if you tap it more than twice?
I have NEVER tapped a shaft or knocked a nozzle!
So, Iam really careful when it comes to that sort of thing..when the gas tank is full I make sure that every drop of gasoline has left the hose before removing it from the filler neck, no tapping for me, but your right my husband taps it usually twice..good observation Cory!!!~Esther
What does it mean when you knock your ClamperPod with your nozzle?
I don't know Jim, what! does it mean? ~ Esther