Look out Carlisle, HERE WE COME !!

Gordon, Lane, Alan, Cory, et al.....
We have the Speedster loaded up, the truck loaded up and we are going to bed now to get up about 4:30am to start on our way to your stomping grounds. So move your livestock to the back forty, lock up your women-folk, warn the children and muzzle your dogs .. we are on our way!

Happy Trails,
Dusty and the Lovely Miss sharon

Dusty -

Have a safe trip! I'll see you and the lovely Miss Sharon at Carlisle Thursday afternoon!

Peace - Out!

Lasso the sun and pull it with you!
Bon Voyage!

I can't wait, I can't wait, I can't wait...

WOOOHOOOOO!!!!!!!

Ahem, um, I'm just a leeetle bit excited. See y'all Thursday.

Awww, have a great and safe trip, I am jealous that our party is already over! Oh well, still hoping on coming to Colorado for the East/West trip.

Happy trails to all of you.

Have fun everyone. Wish I could be there. Jim, take lots of pictures.

OK--I'm fueled up, packed and ready to launch tomorrow (Tues, 5/13)
first layover: Knoxville. Dinner tomorrow night with my son and John Hallstrand and his bride. Wed caravan w/John to Christiansburg and overnight there, then caravan with maybe 10 cars to Carlisle Thurs morning.

Any bluegrass pickers going to Carlisle?

Can't wait!---Jack

Jack - ask John 2Bolts about bringing his Dulcimer! You two can jam and be dinner entertainment!

Have a safe trip! See ya Thursday!! WoooooHooooooooo!

I'm furiously working on Pearl to get her running right. She was acting a little puky when we were still down in Beaufort, and now she runs great until she warms up and then goes super-lean and stumbles all over the place.

Got delayed working on her this past weekend - Chris and I took both our truck/trailers to Southern New Hampshire and picked up a never-started CMC kit (it was advertised on here) and will be putting that together over the Winter.

When I was still in Beaufort I changed the lower intake manifold gaskets and it improved a lot, but it's still not right so, since I'm running out of time AND violating the "never work on your car the week before you leave" rule, I'm shot-gunning it and replacing every intake and exhaust gasket tonight, along with blowing out the jets and replacing both fuel-line filters. If THAT doesn't cure it, we may be leaving her home this trip....It's never fun doing cuises to dinner with a sick car...

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Gordon
Everything's ready to toss into the truck!

Safe and sunny trip to all you inbound travelers!
Kim and I are just back from a WV. Mother's Day weekend vist.
All I have left to do tomorrow evening is tap the dash knobs with the correct threads, shine er' up and pack a few things. ~Alan

Aw Crap, Gordon, bring her anyway! We'll fix'er.

Yeah WTH....we'll wrench a bit .....plus I'll bring along the Merklin Magic Wand! ~Alan

AKA...the BFH!

Jim,
Did you mention DULCIMER! Did you know I used to own and operate the Hummingwood Dulcimer Company in Estes Park, Colorado? That was way back in the mid-70's (in our tie-dyed, hippy days).

TRAVEL UPDATE.... We are stopped for the night in West Des Moines, Iowa. In the morning we head out for Huntington, Indiana, to visit some friends for dinner. Carlisle is getting closer !!!!

Happy Trails,
Dusty and LMS

Come on Jack and Dusty!! We'll see you in Carlise on Thursday.

Dusty -

Looks like you and Hoss can exchange dulcimer stories. I never picked one up but have scratched out a few tunes on a Dobro with some friends!

Maybe we should have a talent show in Carlisle; Magic, music, comedy, etc.?

I didn't realize Des Moines was big enough to have a 'West'! :)

Dad, seriously. WTF.

If we don't bring the car, we're still taking a truck that wouldn't notice a car on the trailer behind it anyway, so what difference would it make to trailer it down and futz around with it there at the show? You're going to find all of the parts you need at one of the vendors anyway.

You're becoming one of the people you always try to talk into bringing their car anyway.

Wow, Gordon, sorry to hear about your troubles. Bring it anyway, I am carting along some tools, no BFH!

Yeah, G-dawg, lemme at it! You KNOW that I ALWAYS have good luck tinkering, don't you? Ok, don't give yourself a hernia from laughing too hard.

Gordon: BRING THE CAR!!! Don't be dope. You know you want to. We'll fix her up, if that is what she needs.

On all this wrenching/tweaking business, and looking fwd to sunny weather, does anyone have ANOTHER tent/canopy sort of thing that could be set up as a "garage". I know we will have the facility supplied tent, but how about some extra shade for those impromptu tune-ups? Might be useful, no? Anybody have one, and also room to bring it?

I have such a tent, and I'll bring it along.

MAJOR PROBLEM!

As of 6:00PM, the car is running like a large steaming pile of s**t. The carbs are so screwed up due to my emergency removal and cleaning, that I am not sure when, or even if, I will get there tomorrow. I will have to go by my local ACVW shop (local is relative - it's close to an hour from home) to see if they can be tuned properly. If so, I may be a little late. If not, I may be in my Acura, if I make it at all. Freakin' wonderful.

Oh boy, this is starting to look like the adventure of the keystone cops.....It is suppose to be over 100 degrees on the best coast, I mean west coast...I am wishing you guys a dry weekend.....
Jim...good luck my brother....

Ya would think that with the 7-8" we jsut got last few days on East Coast there wouldn't be any left up there. Depending where/when ya look there is another chance of H2O on Thur/Fri.

vince
u r too f___ken funny

OK, FIXED HER!!!!!!!

Found (believe it or not) a few pieces of latex glove material inside of the bolt hole where the fuel line banjo fitting connects the gas line to the carb on one side.

No idea how the hell it got there, but I cleaned it out, along with the pilot valve seat (found another piece in there) and then checked the other side for yucks (nothing there) and she fired right up and runs mint. About one day screwing around, shot, but I have a complete set of new intake and exhaust gaskets, now. =>)

At least we can use her to do a demo of syncing carbs, as I threw everything together and just static-set the mix and balance - they have to be off a little.....

Anyway, Carlisle, here we come, Speedie and all!!

Gordon
(I may get the smell of "Ode de gas" off of me by the time we get there...)

Chris tells me to stop whining and pack the truck......

Lane, take cold beer along as leverage to get it done, not a huge project but will consume the better part of two hours. ~Alan

Lane, change the fuel filter! I hope you make it.

Question: How many dopes(me especially) with synchrometers does it take to tune one car?


Answer: We'll soon find out!!

I guess I should bring extra beer for Lane, just in case he comes ride-less.

Leaving tomorrow afternoon, see you all soon!

Don't forget to buckle up....

Pre-trip is complete, borrowed the inspection sticker from my other car, speedster is packed, I'm waiting on tomorrow....safe trip all! ~Alan

Talked with quite a bunch of Y'all this morning:

Bill Drayer is just puttering around waiting for everyone to show up.

Lane got his car running well enough to head North, thanks to a VW mechanic on the other side of town from him. I suggested that he buy some "Dry-Gas" when he fueled up next time and dump a can into the next two tanks - THAT should get the water left out of there. He called a couple of hours later and said he had done it and noticed an immediate improvement (like, within 5 miles). I told him to do another dose and it should be OK.

Jack Crosby has made it to Christiansburg, VA, along with Hoss and Leon, and they were sitting around waiting for Lane to come chugging in. That must have been around 4PM, so he should be along shortly.

I've just about finished puttering around and packing things (seems a lot lighter this year......) and found that I left the tent banner in Beaufort (dammit!!) so I'll see if Staples in Carlisle can crank one out overnight when I get there - simply have run out of time here and about to load the car up onto the trailer.

See Y'all in Carlisle!!!!

Gordon and Chris...

Can't wait to see Miss Candy.

My Coup & Speedy are waiting to roll.

Chris & Gordon coming through Easton about 2pm tomorrow.

Tick tock!

Yeah boys. Boogity, boogity, boogity! We'll be there around 2-3:00.

Matt and I are ready to roll! "La Bomba" is geared up, Dusty's straps holding luggage, camera , ipod, cell phone, chargers, snacks, and underwear, I think were good! Leaving Randolph, around 6pm, should roll in around 9. For the past 2 years, you've been bylines, It will be good to meet you all. Have a safe trip!

Howard, when youy walk into tbe Ramada do a left face and wave, we'll all be behaving in the lobby area. RT. 78 west of Allaentown has some slow spots due to construction lane restrictions ...Safe trip ! ~Alan

We are here and waiting for all you slow pokes! LMS and I drove all day in the rain ... from south of Ft Wayne, IN, to Carlisle!! Rain just stopped and they say only very light rain in the AM tomorrow. We just washed the car down and covered it for the night. We will save some of the food and wine in this town for you. No! it has been a long trip ... perhaps we will consume it all before you get here.

Happy (dry) trails,
Dusty and LMS

Dusty and LMS,
Glad you arrived safely, see youz tomorrow afternoon ~Alan

See you all this afternoon.

Glad Lane is on the way, wooohhhooooooo!

Gordon, 2 years ago you had all that "stuff" to build a car, last year you probably thought you still needed it. This year I am heavy with tools and stuff. No prob, got your back if you need something.