Saturday at Carlisle

It was a beautiful sunny day at Carlisle. I cruised up in the morning with Greg B. Brian V. However Brian and I got soaked coming home - that part sucked. Tons of Speedies and only one Spyder, what's up with that? It was great to meet some falks and put faces to names though I didn't get to meet everyone.

COOL!

Mickey:

It was great meeting you and finally seeing you ride. I love the red color of the car and of course the red rims. Glad to see that you got home ok. Looking forward to visiting Corner Bistro.

Dave

Oh, heck, will you LOOK at the grin on Cory's face!!!

Regarding the spyders, Mickey, I was going to drive over but I've been awfully busy lately.

angela

Angela, you were going to drive over from Oregon?? Wow! If you are serious, that's unbelievable! Cheers.

Yeah, I very seriously considered driving over from here. I've taken a couple of 2-2,500 mile trips in the spyder and I've driven it as much as 700 miles in a day. With some time off work the roughly 6,000 mile round trip is not intimidating to me. But I knew this May was really busy for me. Kids, sports, work, 3 rentals, two for sale, PITA renters, you name it. Too much on the plate right now.

If we unload some of this (the rentals, not the kids - Ha!) I would probably be able to do Carlisle next year. If Dusty does make a Colorado East meets West event, that would be the one.

Planning a spyder trip in fall this year. Oregon to Colorado, south to Amarillo, TX, then Route 66 to Arizona for a spyder event (Arachnamia). West to CA, north thru Death Valley, into Nevada and home. Long roads, fast car...goood stufff...You haven't lived until you've blown thru the big lonely Mohave desert in a six cylinder spyder.
angela

Awesome. And I though my 4 hour round trip drive in the California desert was long!

Just got back from Carlisle. All I can say is WOW! Just cloudy on Fri. but really nice Sat& Sun. Nary A drop of rain. I AM bushed. Three dinner cruises and of course the camaraderie and grog = not enough rest time.
I'm sure many pics are to follow...off for the camera cards.
Dang, Mike, you missed a good one,EH!


BD

THIS POST NEEDS MORE PICS!!!
angela

BTW..I got my first and belated Spyder ride(from last year) in Danny P's Raby powered 2165. W O W ! I haven't felt acceleration like that since I rode my H2 Widow Maker. Thanx to you Bro! AWESOME ride! My heart is still pumping!

BD

Yeah, the picture on the right is Bill's solution to the traffic back-ups on I81 Eastbound for those clowns replacing guard rails during the day!!

Sometimes, you just have to mash the throttle and hold on for dear life. The way I see it, if you can go 100 mph, see for a quarter-mile and get to the hole in the line, the double-yellow doesn't matter.
They don't call them 'outlaws' because they LOOK different, right?

(Chris Nichols took this shot from the chase/linebacker truck. Thanks, Chris! It's going to hang in my den with the other two.)

I seem to remember several instances of outlawry on the way from Hagerstown to Carlisle. Since Hoss and I were doing 70-ish, and you flew by us, you must have been purt near 90, you rebel, you. And every time I recall a fairly large and prominent SEG. 'twas a blast, 'twasn't it?

Man that's a cool pic Chris took! Speedsters as far as the eye can see.
I hope there are more cruise pics floating out there somewhere.

Of course, when we got close to Carlisle on I-81, we had Steve Perry, Tom DeWalt and John Estes following Pearl on her trailer and were cruising at about 75-ish when we caught up with Nicholas and his IM. About the same time, Bill Drayer was trying to catch us with our 5 minute lead, and while I was on the phone with him, the "Mighty Power Stroke" Diesel somehow crept up to 80-ish (and everyone was still keeping up). I didn't see the difference, but Bill was doing close to 100 and never did catch us all ;>)

Finally came into the Hotel lot about 4 minutes after we all arrived, and said he had been cranking around 5 Grand for the past fifteen minutes!! Blackie looked a little lathered up...

Oh.....and we were getting about 22 mpg at 80 mph; truck, trailer and Pearl. Mighty Power Strokes ROCK!

If Y'all have cruise pictures, PLEASE get them to me. Email if only a few, and burn them to a CD if a lot and I'll consolidate them onto a web site somewhere so we can all enjoy them. Email me for a USPS address to send a CD to.

Thanks, Gordon

Thanks to ALL of you who were a part of it all this year. Jen and I had a blast, and she keeps saying, is this only once a year?

Special thanks to Chris for the fun drive to the All-Star!

Nobody beats us East-Coasters in the fun and relaxation department.

Bill, you're welcome.

Angela, if you had come, it would have made two.

Cory, you really are an outlaw, eh?

That's right Danny, you and me, the evil step-children!
angela

I think you both are driving sleepers.

They both have very stout power trains and take off like the hammers of Hell, but if Danny's is any indication, some of those 550's ride like the proverbial Cadillac!

Oh, and I forgot to say that they handle like a Go-Kart, too!

I gave Danny's lovely girl friend, Jen, a ride to the show field in Pearl, and her only comment was, "Gee, you sit a lot higher in a Speedster, don't you?" 8>)