St. Louis PCA -- Check this writeup out!

Now there's one memory for 2007 that will be hard to top. Sleep with a smile on your face tonight!

While I was visiting my Dad this last October, the neighbor brought his 40-something son-in-law over to have a look at what he thought must be Dad's new car.
The son-in-law, Menelaos Karamichalis, turns out to have been the president of the St. Louis PCA. (The pronunciation on his first name is Men-allow-us, like the Spartan king.)
Anyway, he wanted to see the orange crate. We probably spent a good 45 minutes poking over it, him asking questions and me explaining build decisions; it was cool.
I offered to let him drive it for a while after he looked over the components. Menelaos took her out for a half hour or more, and brought it back to me with the rubber smelling like it should have. The brakes were cooking; clearly, he had had a great time.
He made his assessments, didn't say much, shook my hand and graciously thanked me for the opportunity. He had a pretty standard SEG on his head when he left.

... And now, three months later:
http://www.stlpca.org/PresidentsPage/tabid/59/Default.aspx

There you go Cory.... " The Presidential Seal "

Dude! I hope you got a scrapbook started! Good for you!

~WB

On the WALL Cory - put it ON THE WALL!!!! Das Hoopty kicks booty!

angela

Well done Corey....

DUDE- YOU RUUUULE!!!

Great story and BTW his name is Greek.

The striking mechanics picketing in front of the nearby BMW dealer gave me a BIG thumbs up as I buzzed by them, in the cold night air, in Cory's car! They were alerted by great sounds the air-cooled engine was making.

Indeed, Lambro, I am from Thessaloniki.

And you wanted to sell her...

Nice write up -- CONGRATS!!

Menelae,Larisa here but I have some friend and family that live in Thessaloniki. Great to see you visiting this site. Do yoy have a 944 turbo(I saw your user name)? I drove Cory's car last year at Carlisle
and really liked it.

I've been tryin' to tell y'all, the Hoopty is unlike any other. Of course it is a Volkserporschemutt. Look at the driver/designer/builder -- anybody here really know what he is? It fits . . .

Very cool article, and delighted to see the "all for the marque" sentiment expressed here.

Menelaos: It was refreshing to read your article. There are many PCA members who are less than thrilled with our plastic classics.
I only wish more shared your opinion.

~WB

Kelly - I thought Cory was like me and just missing a chromosome (or two)...

Cory - Great story !

Jim - aren't we all??

Jim, I'm off to meet Cory and Bert for dinner in a few minutes (Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and all of that . . .), and am a little anxious, wondering if he has seen my remark -- which, by the way, is meant as a sincere compliment; but I wonder if he'll take it as such. A chromosome shift would be a little dramatic, but a slight wiggle in the DNA is very understandable.

I always thought Cory should have a script made up for the hoopty that says "Drakester" in honor of something that's a little bit of a speedster and a whole lot of it's owner the illustrious Mr. Drake.

angela

Cory and I had a wonderful time at dinner with Kelly. (Thanks for picking up the tab, by the way, Kelly. The next two are on US!)

If the rest of you are half as decent and fun as Kelly (who I've now had the pleasure of meeting THREE times), then you're OK in my book!

Thanks for welcoming me into this crowd!

BERT - Knowing this group, be careful what you wish for!!

Cory - Dude, you RUUUUULE!!

Kelly - Don't you have to be somewhere building a rocket?!

Rockets are the day job. Evenings and week ends are for Speedsters and their assorted owners and hangers-on. Well, OK, I guess we can throw a little family in there now and then too.