That's crazy!   

1st, I have no concept of what kind of ethereal dimension you have to be in, in order to even converse on that level.  I don't know how a conversation where one-thing-led-to-another like that can happen with a human tongue.  Were you abducted?

2nd, I did it myself; I typed-in Archive.org

It actually works!  Earthlings can do it!

spyderclub works, but it is hard to navigate because it is not an actual on-line site.  So the 'search' function doesn't work because you had to 'login' in order to use the 'search' function, and because the site isn't active you can't login.  But you can read the threads as posted on any given day.

Intrigued, I typed-in the website of my company in CA .  The website was taken down by the new owners when the company was sold 14 years ago.  Lo-and-behold; I guess they "thought" they made it disappear.  It is all still there, just like I left it.  DeJa'Vu.

What a great find!!

Come for the archived Spyderclub.com, stay for the identity theft.

Thanks Gordon for the info. Just for grins I looked up a charity drive I did back in 2011 called "Drivin' for the Kids" 49in7. I drove my 1932 roadster to 49 states in 7 days and raised over $100K for Ronald McDonald House at Stanford. I thought my site info was long gone, but there it was just as It was. That's quite a gift !! I'm so glad to know this, my Grand Kids will love reading about my adventures from years ago.

Dave

I forgot to add the copy:

Hot rodding’s ultimate iron man Dave Schaub drove his Brizio-built ’32 roadster through all 49 continental Unites States in an amazing 7 days, 14 hours and 21 minutes in a fund raising effort for the kids of the Ronald McDonald House at Stanford University. It was the second trip through all 49 states for Schaub in the last two years!

He took off from Maine in the wee morning hours of Saturday, September 10th and after 8, 680 miles drove into Hyder, Alaska Saturday afternoon September 17th. He went through 542 gallons of gas and averaged 63.7mph. Why would a hot rodder like Dave put himself through something like this? It’s a logical question. “I’m creating an opportunity for people to get involved in helping others,” he said. “It’s my way of getting people with similar interests to step up and support something they can connect with and be proud they did. Besides it’s just a few weeks out of my life to help make a difference”.

You can support this awesome cause by Donating Here

Congratulations on your repeat performance, Dave! That's an amazing amount of driving and commitment to a good cause.

@Michael Pickett posted:

Congratulations on your repeat performance, Dave! That's an amazing amount of driving and commitment to a good cause.

Thanks Michael, It was a great personal experience as well as doing some good while driving my roadster and burning up gas. I'm just so happy Gordon shared the info about Archive.org. I have a lot of pictures and clippings of what I did, but to see the website again was cool.

Thanks for the link to the internet archives, @Gordon Nichols. I went back to see if anything existed from some of my early websites back in the 90's, but alas, that "no robots" file really worked to prevent the harvesting. I just didn't like the idea of someone scanning back then. Today I couldn't care less. My early expectations about privacy and security were remarkably quaint in retrospect.

@Butcher Boy  Dave!  What a great adventure!  And in a Brizio '32!  Makes me wish I had my '46 coupe back, but I can be happy with my Speedster.

And @RS-60 mark - We all make our way through this world in different ways.  Mine was one of computers and how to use them so I eventually found my way to making wicked fast mini-computers that allowed us to have nifty things like CT and MRI scanners.  Got to work with a lot of wicked smot people along the way.  Much later I was doing the same thing for computer storage like memory boards and then large-scale networked disks and along the way dabbled in network attached storage, pre-cursor to "the cloud", which is just another computer somewhere with a big-a$$ disk drive attached.

Bruno, the guy I was talking with, was in the thick of that, too, and was the guiding light for the hardware side of our storage stuff.  He is a real Renaissance man, dabbling in a lot of things.  He's now retired out of high tech, owns a winery just north of where Danny P lives and having a ball, but he is still in touch with a lot of people still in the business and sort of wanders around, virtually, dropping seeds here and there to keep people moving in the right direction.  It pays to have a really good network.

gn (and Bruno A)

@Butcher Boy posted:

I forgot to add the copy:

Dave Does It Again!

Hot rodding’s ultimate iron man Dave Schaub drove his Brizio-built ’32 roadster through all 49 continental Unites States in an amazing 7 days, 14 hours and 21 minutes in a fund raising effort for the kids of the Ronald McDonald House at Stanford University. It was the second trip through all 49 states for Schaub in the last two years!

He took off from Maine in the wee morning hours of Saturday, September 10th and after 8, 680 miles drove into Hyder, Alaska Saturday afternoon September 17th. He went through 542 gallons of gas and averaged 63.7mph. Why would a hot rodder like Dave put himself through something like this? It’s a logical question. “I’m creating an opportunity for people to get involved in helping others,” he said. “It’s my way of getting people with similar interests to step up and support something they can connect with and be proud they did. Besides it’s just a few weeks out of my life to help make a difference”.

You can support this awesome cause by Donating Here

What an outstanding achievement for a very good cause. Large congrats, Dave !  Just curious...what route would you take to hit all 49 States ?

@Gordon Nichols posted:

And @RS-60 mark - We all make our way through this world in different ways.  Mine was . . . .

Thanks David Stroud, here you go ..............

I did this charity drive twice with different routes. The first was my 49in9 in 2009 followed by the 49in7 in 2011. Both were driven in the month of September. Both finished in the town of Hyder, Alaska. I started the 49in9 in Barstow, Ca. the 49in7 I drove to the east coast and started in Kittery, ME. All totaled the drives raised over $200K for Ronald McDonald House. On both trips I carried a tracking device that showed my location every  10 minutes. The folks were able to view my progress 24/7 from my web site. BTW, no breakdowns or tickets on either drives. I drove from 1000 to 1200 miles a day in my roadster with no chase car or passengers. Just me and the car going our thing in the bliss of the open air. I will give praise to Roy Brizio and his crew for preparing the car before the drives. Also the the hundreds of Canadians who met me and welcomed me at the boarder. Traveling the length of BC, heading to Alaska was truly beautiful and adventurous !

@David Stroud IM Roadster D

Dave:  When are you leaving? 

Won't Dave Stroud have to include the 13 Canadian Provinces as a son of Canada?

Nunavut might be a stretch, though......    😉

Archive.org is great but it only scraps  some of the data ,

So if you  are looking at a post and it has a link to another post on the same website it may not have scrapped that page,

Still much better than having nothing !

@Gordon Nichols posted:

Won't Dave Stroud have to include the 13 Canadian Provinces as a son of Canada?

Nunavut might be a stretch, though......    😉

No thanks....non at all  :-) leave that type of speed stuff to the good butcher. We ( I mostly travel with my Wife ) did the Cali to Carlisle thing in a 1915 powered older IM Speedster and we crossed a lot of Canada from BC to Ontario in the Roadster. Originally we drove the 1600cc  $6,500 Speedster from Boise, Idaho over to I81 and up to Ottawa back around 2010. That's my type of travel.

My hat is entirely off to Dave the Butcher for his very inspiring endevours.

My $6,500 Speedster as bought in Boise.

@David Stroud IM Roadster D posted:

No thanks....non at all  :-) leave that type of speed stuff to the good butcher. We ( I mostly travel with my Wife ) did the Cali to Carlisle thing in a 1915 powered older IM Speedster and we crossed a lot of Canada from BC to Ontario in the Roadster. Originally we drove the 1600cc  $6,500 Speedster from Boise, Idaho over to I81 and up to Ottawa back around 2010. That's my type of travel.

My hat is entirely off to Dave the Butcher for his very inspiring endevours.

My $6,500 Speedster as bought in Boise.

David that a nice ride you did back to Ottawa from Boise. I have been across Canada a few times on more leisurely trips with my wife in the same roadster. I hope my new speedster, that I ordered for Greg, will finally be finished in May this year. It has been a long wait........ But, if all the stars align I will be putting down some miles in it soon. I went for a stroked Subaru engine and many extras. This is my long awaited dream car that I've had in my head for years. I'll always be a Hot Rodder and this speedster is a bit of a hot rod too. Can't wait to get my hands on it.

Dave

@Butcher Boy Dave, did you drive the car back home or ship it and fly?

Thanks, Gordon. The Wayback Machine has been a helpful aid to journalists and researchers for a long time. It's a necessary (albeit fragile) resource because, contra those who once told us "the internet is forever," it is more apt to say the internet is ephemeral. We're talking about link rot—the tendency of things on these innerwebs to move or disappear, leaving the hyperlink we used to point to them pointing at a void that says something like 404 Object Not Found. 

@Butcher Boy posted:

David that a nice ride you did back to Ottawa from Boise. I have been across Canada a few times on more leisurely trips with my wife in the same roadster. I hope my new speedster, that I ordered for Greg, will finally be finished in May this year. It has been a long wait........ But, if all the stars align I will be putting down some miles in it soon. I went for a stroked Subaru engine and many extras. This is my long awaited dream car that I've had in my head for years. I'll always be a Hot Rodder and this speedster is a bit of a hot rod too. Can't wait to get my hands on it.

Dave

Glad you're getting a nice Speedster soon. I finally built up a Soob Frankenmotor for my Speedster and it pulled very well. A couple of years later I sold it after getting my IM Roadster with the 2332. I didn't know people stroked a Soob motor. Please tell what you can about that when you have a chance.

One pic of my Roadster outside the Black Rooster in BC on the way to Ottawa. I've since installed some nice Vred's on grey painted rims and nipple hubcaps.

@DannyP posted:

@Butcher Boy Dave, did you drive the car back home or ship it and fly?

Hey Danny, The car has never seen a trailer. I drove it ! The second trip where I started in ME, I drove 3200 miles just to get to my starting point. And each time after making it to Hyder, Alaska I still had to drive home to the Bay Area,CA. I have 165K on it now and still going strong.When I did the charity drives the car had 60K miles on it. So it was well sorted. Vic Edelbrock gave me a new motor for the drive, but I wanted to put at least 10K miles on it to be well broken in. Vic invite me and the car to be in his booth for SEMA that year. The car runs flawlessly. I repainted it a few years ago and upgraded with a new windshield, wheels and tires, grill, hoods and transmission. I like to drive so don't be too surprised if I come east with my speedster to join you and the guys on a few days of twisties.

Here is a photo of the car now.

@David Stroud IM Roadster D posted:

Glad you're getting a nice Speedster soon. I finally built up a Soob Frankenmotor for my Speedster and it pulled very well. A couple of years later I sold it after getting my IM Roadster with the 2332. I didn't know people stroked a Soob motor. Please tell what you can about that when you have a chance.

One pic of my Roadster outside the Black Rooster in BC on the way to Ottawa. I've since installed some nice Vred's on grey painted rims and nipple hubcaps.

When I ordered the speedster I didn't know at the time that a stroked motor was an option. But after talking to John at Outfront Motors about the engine build it became a thing. So I told him to do it as it doesn't effect reliability and is just more fun to drive. I also wanted a different look for the engine compartment, so I went with a Gulf Oil paint color on the motors intake and plug wires. The car is painted slate gray with baseball colored interior. I'm having a A-1 do the headers with shotgun dual exhaust. The wheels are Rudge copy with Vredestein sports tires. The body is an outlaw style with no trim or badging. It will have GT style bumpers. A hardtop is in the works as is a hard dual helmet faring hard tonneau. I will also have the regular soft top and tonneau to use and change the look to suit my drive.

I'm glad I finally realized that the interior is only the Dynamat.

First looked and thought, "Whoa!   What the Hell is THAT?"    🤣

@Butcher Boy posted:

I drove from 1000 to 1200 miles a day in my roadster with no chase car or passengers. Just me and the car going our thing in the bliss of the open air.

@Butcher Boy posted:

The second trip where I started in ME, I drove 3200 miles just to get to my starting point. And each time after making it to Hyder, Alaska I still had to drive home to the Bay Area,CA. I have 165K on it now and still going strong.

Note to self:

Dave is a stud - full stop.

Never, ever talk about "solo long distance" touring unless you've driven an open car 15,000 in 2 weeks for fun.

End note.

Gentlemen, we have a giant in our ranks. My hat is off, folded in my hands, eyes bowed in your presence. Well done, Dave. Exceedingly well done.

@Gordon Nichols posted:

I'm glad I finally realized that the interior is only the Dynamat.

First looked and thought, "Whoa!   What the Hell is THAT?"    🤣

You're weird, Gordon. I looked at it thought "Why'd Greg dynomat the rearview mirror?" D'oh...

@Stan Galat posted:

Note to self:

Dave is a stud - full stop.

Never, ever talk about "solo long distance" touring unless you've driven an open car 15,000 in 2 weeks for fun.

End note.

Gentlemen, we have a giant in our ranks. My hat is off, folded in my hands, eyes bowed in your presence. Well done, Dave. Exceedingly well done.

Hey Stan, I don't know about the stud thing, But I do like to drive..... a lot !! It took me a year of planning, a year of training, walking 10 miles a day for 5 days a week and resting on the weekends. Plus I got my body use to 4 to 5 hours sleep for a year. I'd stay up watching Leno and Ferguson then go to bed, up at 6am, walk 10miles, go to work, come home and work on my route, eat dinner and watch tv till 1am and go to bed. Did that for 5 days a week and slept in on the weekends. When it came time to do the charity drive I was ready. I would start at midnight and drive all day doing my gas stops that took just 8 mins. Around 6pm I would be at my night stop, have dinner and go to bed. The alarm would go off at 11:30, take a shower, load the car and be off to my next stop. And  so it went for 7 day, 14 hours and 21 mins to Hyder, Alaska. I'm just a simple meat cutter who had an idea to get other cars guy involved in giving back. This was something they understood and I was the vehicle that made it happen. It truly was a win win for all. Now where is my speedster????

As Stan and others say "I regret that I can give but one "Like" to this."

@Butcher Boy - Whatever.

You rock, and you're a giant in my eyes. Well done.

And I thought we sometimes became pressed to crank out the miles on bicycle trips.  All I could think was this:

@Lane Anderson posted:

As Stan and others say "I regret that I can give but one "Like" to this."

@Stan Galat posted:

@Butcher Boy - Whatever.

You rock, and you're a giant in my eyes. Well done.

Thanks Guys, hope to meet up with you someday and enjoy a cold one. Form California its only a 3 day drive for me!  Hahaha

Dave

@Gordon Nichols posted:

And I thought we sometimes became pressed to crank out the miles on bicycle trips.  All I could think was this:

Good one Gordon, and you're so right! But these drives weren't about site seeing. It was to do what many said couldn't be done. And by doing so, I attracted their attention and only asked for a penny a mile as a donation. I knew I could do it, because of my military training, and with some advice from the Iron Butt Association on how to prepare, I got busy. Turned out to be quite a show for those who watched it unfold. And to the ones who said "no way", I say never understate a man with passion ! I'm still kickin', but I have slowed a bit at 73. Now I look forward to my days driving my new speedster when it arrives. Those will be the site seeing trips.

@Butcher Boy

Dave, that's quite a feat. I couldn't even conceive doing that many miles.

I have proved the naysayers wrong MANY, MANY times.

There was a guy(high school friend) who told me I couldn't build my own guitar in the 80s. Hey, it was the 80s, and Purple Rain had just come out! Ribbon mahogany is DENSE and beautiful.

There was(still is, on here) a guy who told me I couldn't rebuild my own transmission. I did, then broke it 3 times after that by driving like a hoon. Fixed it 3 times too.

Same guy also told me my car wouldn't be done for Carlisle 2017. It was , of course.

Nobody tells me what I can or can't do.

Can't wait to meet you someday, Dave.