Ouch, that hurts looking at it! People can be so stinking careless these days. On the plus side; at least she left a note.
Put some duct tape on it and tell everyone you run into the back of a Ferrari while running the 24 hours of LeMans. That Ferrari, just would not get out of the way.
Joe Fortino posted:A woman backed into it when were at dinner but did leave a note. She missed the overrider so it is isolated to the hood. It could have been much worse.
Who ever she is will be glad you have a replica!
Apparently, the woman who backed into Joe's car was sincere in stating that she didn't see it there (after all - It's a pretty small car). She left a note with her phone number and by the time he had gotten around to calling her (he was, understandably, really upset) she had already begun the process of filing a claim with her insurance company. I guess there are still some decent people in the World.
Thursday, on our ride down from Massachusetts, the outside temp fluctuated between 93F-101F on my car's thermometer (Kelvinator, my refigerator-white, Nissan Rogue - I chose to leave Pearl at home, and now she's pissed......Along with my son). I picked up Tom Marantz outside of Hartford, CT (Suby A-Coupe), and Joel Abraham (Aircooled A-Speedster) in New Jersey and we were cruising at 72-75mph on my cruise control. The only issue we had was when Kelvinator second-guessed where Joel was going (it certainly wasn't ME!) and got me lost until I caught up with everyone at the lunch stop two hours later. ONce we got separated I was cruising at a solid 80mph, trying to catch up with them on their "short cut" and after an hour at 80+ I decided I MUST be in front of them - I was. The other issue was vapor-lock on Tom's Suby-coupe - The fuel hose exits the gas tank at the front left, goes right across the car on top of the engine radiator in the nose of the car to the passenger side and into the fuel pump. If you are driving along with adequate airflow, everything is fine, but if you slow abruptly for stalled traffic on a hot day the fuel boils in the hose from the tank to the pump and the pump can't pump it. Pull over, stop for 15 minutes and it'll start and run fine. We've already homed in on a most likely fix and Tom will be messing with it soon. What the hell is it with gasoline? Why can't it boil at something more reasonable, like 400F?????
Anyway, Friday was pretty much the same weather - 93-ish while we did the back-road-tour through some absolutely BEAUTIFUL scenery - My Heavens........That is a gorgeous part of the state(s). One of the stops was at an Antique Consignment shop (used to be a sled factory) that seemed like it was half a mile long. You know you're getting old when you look at "Antiques" but remember using them not all that many years ago. Several of us exhibited amazing restraint in NOT buying some of the antique suitcases they had there (typically for under $30 bucks) - I figured mine would cost around $630....... $30 for the suitcase and another $600 for the rear luggage rack I would want.
Later, we all took a trip on the Susquehana River (goes from northern PA down to Washington, DC) on a rear, paddle-wheeled river boat. THAT was extraordinarily cool (including the breeze from the river) and some of us got a tour guide report from Jack Crosby about his Aunt that used to live right on the river in Harrisburg ("Right over there!").
I'll upload a few pictures from the show in a while (just got home and then had to mow the lawn before it engulfed the house). It was typically Carlisle weather, but it was a great weekend. Friday we were sweltering and by Saturday morning it had dropped about 40 degrees, was drizzling and we were all cold and wet, but What'chagonnado??
A few people we missed who couldn't make it, and a few more were newbies welcomed into the "family" (and by now they've learned just how cool we all are!). We had a few car issues like a clutch adjustment in 95 degrees (Kelly F.), a loose rear hub castle nut (Tom Buchanan), a throttle cable that slipped at the hex bar arm (??), a shift coupler that decided to literally explode (Wild Bill), Vapor lock in Tom's one-and-only coupe at the show and, of course, Joe's car getting backed into but, all-in-all, it was a typically Carlisle weekend with lots of cars (there seemed to be twice as many cars on the show field as when I was last there in 2013 and about the same number of SOC cars), lots of friends, lots of food and LOTS of laughs. Here's a couple of angles of Tom's coupe. 140hp at the wheels - This . thing . really . scoots! I was really roughing it on this trip! That's Cory's Hoopty "Mk II" with the new paint and upgraded interior in the background.
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OK! Small car anecdote, here;
I'm riding along on I-83 near Yorktown, PA, as passenger in Tom Marantz's coupe when we get passed by a Nissan Juke, the slightly smaller and way uglier version of my Nissan Rogue. I look over from the passenger seat and that Juke looks friggin HUGE! We didn't even make it to the top of the Juke's door! Gives a whole new dimension to the term, "small car"...
I wish I had known about the loose castle nut. I always bring my B.F. Torquewrench and a 36 mm socket to Carlisle weekend.
~WB
No sweat, Wild Bill - Tom thought it was a loose/worn stub axle at first (he runs IRS like me) but Dr. Clock rocked the rear wheel and said, "Hey! This sucker's loose!" and I was looking over his shoulder and said, "OO! I have a 36mm and a Bat handle! I've also got Locktite RED!" So, Tom turned out to be the heaviest guy there at 245 pounds (sorry for spilling the beans, Tom) so he bounced twice or so on the end of the bat handle and that was probably 350 ft lbs. Done.
Even though I drove Kelvinator to the meet, I threw a bunch of tools into my traveling tool box and grunted it into the back of the car. As I would wander over to people working, I would hear "Geez! I wish I had a pair of Vise Grips!" and I could say, "I've got that!" Or on a different car; "Geez! I need an 8mm stubby wrench for this!" and I could say; "I've got that!" It was good I had that stuff.....kept a few ore cars running.
It was a weird weekend for breaking stuff. Ron Fish brought his flared CMC down from upstate NY in an enclosed trailer. He solo winches it in and out. His trailer was parked slightly downhill to assist getting the car out and I wandered over to watch. I looked into his car and noticed it didn't have an e-brake handle in the middle (turns out it is a Fibersteel frame), but it's mounted transversely in front of the driver's seat - THAT's interesting, I thought, and just then Ron starts letting it out by running his electric winch backwards. All of a sudden, the winch cable breaks (Bang!) and the car starts picking up speed down the ramps and heading for an 8" high curbing. His buddy jumps to the front and uses his body as a barrier (not too effectively, I might add, 'cause it was still moving) and I dive over the driver's door and yank on that ebrake handle with everything I've got and finally, we both get it to stop about 3 feet from the curb:
Ron and Maggie Mullis were unloading the "Blue Angels Tribute 550 Spyder" from their enclosed trailer when it somehow slipped off of the ramps sideways and got hung up against the tailgate/ramp support cable, scratching the side of the body near the front wheel well. 
Bill Drayer's shift coupler simply exploded into little pieces. Dr. Clock (Honest - it says "Dr. Clock" on Connie's BMW license plate) picked up a new coupler at the EMPI truck at the show and Bill was installing it but dropped a washer down into the bottom of the tunnel. "$#!+ - - I wish I had a magnet!" "I've got a magnet!" I said and by that time had moved Kelvinator over to be a rolling toolbox for him and Kelly (doing a clutch adjustment).
And so it went. A few big deals needing body work to keep Carey and his guys busy this week and a bunch of little niddley things that were annoyances for others.
My weekend chauffeur, Tom Marantz, has found that whenever I am the navigator, we get lost.....Sometimes multiple times in the same drive. We saw a great part of Camp Hill, PA that way, only we were maybe 8 miles from the hotel and still heading away at the time. I blame it on Google maps (Kathy blames it on Early Onset Alzheimer's) or that Tom's car is a bit loud and I can't hear the spoken GPS directions and have to rely on the map (PLUS, Kathy has learned NEVER give me a map, especially when we're at Disney World - Sorry Tom!) We even got lost stopping for Gas on I-84 coming home. Thank God I could hear my GPS in Kelvinator or I might still be out there trying to find my way home.
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I had the pleasure of meeting Joe Fortino and was his right seater for a day.
Beck knocked it out of the park on that build with the 2.5L Subie and the tranny, not to mention the amazing sound of the exhaust that is so close to the aircooled sound that I wasn't sure it was a real subie from the passenger seat.
@chines1 I wouldn't mind having more details on that exhaust it was a wonderful addition.
Congrats to Joe and Carey ... great car!
Ray