Get-together in Wilmington, DE, at Mickey's bistro

We (Mickey, Kelly, Tom and I) are going to get together at the Corner Bistro Restaurant off of Rte. 202 in Wilmington on Sunday, August 19th.
The ideal arrival time will be somewhere between noon and 1 p.m., for those interested. The food's good, the drink's good and the roads in the area are absolutely ideal.
There's been a lot of Speedster activity in the area lately, with individual folks doing things on their own. I'd like to see who we can muster up there -- so I'm posting on both (Speedster) sites.
If you can make it, call or e-mail me, Tom, Mick or Kelly for way-points; we're arriving from at least two compass directions.
It's gonna be a good time.

Cancelled, due to lack of interest.

Ouch, that hurts.

Nobody wants to come to my bistro?

You guys tell Kelly "very very funny about page 41 in Kit Car Builder." My car is NOT A PERRY!!!

angela

Hey, Mick -- no worries. I think Kelly and I are coming up anyway. Maybe we could get some Jersey interest. Al, maybe?
Bruce can't make it, and Tom's putting a daughter on the bus for college -- since theis was a "parts delivery" for Tom ...
But what the heck. Any excuse.
Maybe you and the missus could saddle up and head south? We gotta do SOMETHING. Pretty soon, it's going to get cold, and we'll NEVER see those guys!
:)


Angela, I told Kelly yesterday [we met Jim Loentz (sp?) and saw his red flared car for the first time] that he was on your *hit list -- he said he had asked "What have they done to your Spyder," -- semantics, I suppose, or wiggling to get off the hook -- but that he never intended for you to get three copies ...
We had a good chuckle at your (literal) expense.
Meanwhile, MY car IS in the magazine ...
:

Your car is in it Cory and for that reason alone I would have bought and kept the magazine! Also, would you like a copy for your son? I'll send it to you.

The third copy will go to a serviceman in sandland. On the Monte Carlo SS site, he asked if people would send him car magazines while he was on tour. He'll read/share with others over there. Guess you just flat can't get car mags over there.

I've been sending him a bundle about once a week. The third copy goes in the next bundle. It all works out good. But dang, the joke was DEFINATELY on me for that one...

angela

Cory and Kelly,
Just let me know when and if you guys are coming up. I may, or may not be able to join you for a cruise as I've got lots of stuff going on with the new place. I have an afternoon meeting scheduled at 3pm (need to whip the newbies into shape) and then I should be free. I've also got a guy coming in to do some stone work, but as with most contractors scheduling is a crap-shoot. Either way, you guys are always welcome for food and drink at the bistro, as are any and all Speedster owners. Cory, I'll call you tonight or tomorrow.

angela: The point of the remark was to call attention to a thing that someone thinks is a Spyder. "your" Spyder was meant to imply the car that you love, not the car in the mag that was disfigured. Should have said: "OMG, look what someone did to this Spyder!" Can we be friends again?

Mickey/Cory: Sunday ride: I am up for it, and I like the idea of meeting half way +/- in or around the Susquehanna river. I promised to look up possible spots, but have not done so yet. Would like to have a definite plan, vs. running up to maybe meet you or others while you are maybe meeting some stone mason who will maybe pile up some pretty rocks for you, maybe. Know what I mean? I can be a pretty spontaneous sort, but it seems like an all day drive thing ought to have a certain level of committment from the drivers. Running all the way up to your place is still an OK idea, but I'd like to figure a way to do something besides I95. Cory: Wassup, dude?

I could care less where we go; I'm a restless sort with a full tank of gas. Now that I've replaced my cannon-barrels with little bitty idle jets, I should be able to go weeks with a tank of the old 93.
If we go wandering through the countryside in the afternoon and meet Mickey someplace off the Sesquawhatever at some point, that's cool.
I'd say we let the Mickster throw a dart at a map of the MD/PA/DE/NJ or our stretch of the Mason-Dixon in general and meet him there.
You've got a GPS for your car, right?

Cory you guys could always stop by my place, or have I been disowned since the speedster is no more?





J/K

Take care and I'm hoping to meet up at mickey's place some time again with you guys, plus the food there was great and I promised to take my wife. Brian

Brian, if you still have my number, can you call it? New phone, blah, blah, blah. Old phone is MIA.
We're now planning to cruise a meandering path through PA, ending up in Wilmington after 3 p.m. You're absolutely welcome to join us at some point!

The Second Recent East Coast Event, which featured the fine state of PA again, was made tolerable today only be the very warm (and nourishing) welcome given by Alan and Wild Bill, at Alan's Garage. I will confess that all other design points for this trip failed miserably: Sun did not shine; rain fell down; no other Speedsters braved the conditions; travel betwix and between was done to minimize exposure, so was 99.5% Interstate. Swell enough, but not the back road twisties that were hoped for. I am thinking Cory has seen and endured situations much worse in his time, and he did smile valiantly through all, but nonetheless was a bit damp and chilled on several occassions. Again thanks to Bill, and Alan especially for the grub, grog, and tall tales, this PM. If we keep trying maybe some of the features so painlfully lacking in today's adventure, will come to pass in a future road trip. Hope so.

Oh, and PS: my muffler fell off. Coulda been much worse than it was, and maybe even funny after all. As to root cause, this I believe was my fault, so don't get all worked up at JPS. I applied a gasket at a flange in the system, thinking to improve the system, and probably used the wrong material. It burned out, released the torque on the nuts and they backed out. Of course, Cory, the always-prepared-for-anything Hooptymeister, had exactly the right nut and bolt required in his on-borad fix-iot shop, and wrenches to apply. Also, we were only about 60 sec short of Alan's at the time, so all was set right in very short order, and w/ just a bit of scrape on the tail pipe. While the flange was loosy-goosey, the muffler was still retained to the car by a support bracket. On balance, I feel like I dodged a bullet. Or maybe Cory jumped in front, and took it for me -- or something like that. All's well that ends well? I'll go w/ that.