So Greg was placing the hard tonneau on the car for shipping and scratched the heck out of it. Another short delay. But transport has been called and will pick the car up within the next week. Hope to have it in a couple of weeks. Just placed new driveway on my Cville house for the new Spyder. It’s getting close.
You boughta house for your new Spyder? That’s a new one.
Very cool, Phil. Looking forward to the SEG!
Rich
Bought a house to educate my kids at UVA. Fell in love with Charlottesville. Kept the house. Cville is a great town. And at the foot of Appalachia. Beautiful place. Great roads.
Phil, send them the mortgage bill each month and they will learn fast.
My son Sam lived in the house for 6 years through undergrad and med school. He still thinks the house is his. Rent for the 2nd bedroom payed my mortgage those 6 years. I'll own it in a couple of years. Can't wait the get the spyder in its new home.
Plates have arrived. Car ships this week. 
Phil:
Nice plates. Nice car.
All you need now is some nice weather. 
Tuesday through Saturday was beautiful in Charlottesville this week. Its just going to get nicer.
It was heaven here on Friday and Saturday until a cold front came through around sunset last night. Took the BMW R100 for several rides, spring tuneup and changed all the oils(gearbox, drive shaft, final drive) and got it NYS inspected. Now it's 100% ready to go.
Spyder is getting some love as well. Front sway bar fabrication, CHT gauge and other stuff I didn't get to last year. I figure two weeks from now I'll be done AND the weather will be great.
Phil, looking forward to seeing that ride in pictures AND in person......
Hoping the car will be well sorted when it arrives. A true “turnkey “. And yes there will lots of pictures.
Greg called intercity for pickup this last Monday. No pickup yet. I'm trying not to think about it. But it is getting frustrating.
Be patient this is a busiest time of year for Transporters, Barrett Jackson Auction and the usual Spring " gotta have it now " customers ..
Alan
Retired " 30 East Auto Transport LLC."
I've had a few cars shipped in the past. It's always a rollercoaster ride of emotions while you wait.
Keep yourself busy. It will be there before you know it.
Bored waiting for my car. Car will be kept in Charlottesville VA, home of the University of Virginia founded by Thomas Jefferson who lived nearby at Monticello. Cville was also the home of Dave Matthews. He was born in South Africa but spent his young adulthood in Cville. He has a home and recording studio just NE of town (lives most of the time in Seattle). Most of his band members are from Cville and have homes nearby. This is the second oldest "store" on the downtown walking mall. Its now a great bar and restaurant, one of my favorites. And the other cool thing about this place is that Dave Matthews used to tend bar here and also did a few of his first gigs. Just bought this painting done by a local artist. And one of my favorites Dave Matthews songs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inpokiZv9vc
cool building.... they originally served, cocaine and other controlled substances in there before for sure now serving beer that's cool. 
Yup. It says drugs and seeds on the building. I guess you can also grow your own.
Yeah, they use to have Cocaine, Heroin etc in stock...
Hang in there, Doc! 
@550 Phil
The longer you wait , the sooner it will arrive! 
It's been a long road, but it always is when you decide to color outside the lines.
So, Uncle Stan's unsolicited advice: the best thing you can do at this point is wait for it to be shipped, then enjoy it fully when it arrives. Drive the wheels off that thing. DON'T LOSE INTEREST in it because there's some "this or that" that you wish you'd done differently (there will be a dozen of those things, at least one will be significant). None of this time or money has been wasted if you use and enjoy the car-- the longer you have it, the better the ROI is on it.
This is my 3rd spyder so hopefully I got this one pretty close to right. And this one I do plan to keep until I can’t get out of it.
I actually called intercity to see what was up. Greg called for pick up March 27. And they are still telling me 2 weeks until pick up. Unbelievable.
Certainly would have been faster.
It’s not too late. The weather is phenomenal, plane tickets are cheap.
Unfortunately time is not a luxury for me. No time off until September. Next vacation I’m hoping to be driving the Dragon.
That is health care, you can hardly get time off until your either dead or retired. Retired preferably
Car being picked up today. Will be here by the end of next week. 
Congrats Phil, will that car be in Carlisle for a day this year
Couldn't get any time off work. Hoping to have it in the Smokies in Sept.
P touches placed. Detailed. On the truck.
4 cams, eh?
No. It's the SOHC. Not a lot of advantages to the DOHC. Both are 165 hp stock. Pretty easy to build an EJ25 up to 230 hp like mine with natural aspiration even with SOHC. Trying not to get anxious. I told Greg no chrome in the engine bay and he did it. Wanted it to look all business.
It's looking killer, Phil!
Phil. let us know how that non-stock ECU runs.
Post the tracking number so we can see state by state journey!
Beautiful car, Phil.
Enjoy it, and drive it wisely...
