Bruce and Norma Stumpp wheeling their grandsons around in their little "Kiddie Kars"
Staying at the Ramada Inn - Or the Hotel Carlisle
Lunch at the Boiling Springs Tavern
Egg Sammiches
"Debbie's Hot Buns"
Dinner at "The Lodge"
The Eastern Motorsports Museum
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Lane's car being built
The first trip to the Eastern Museum of Motor Racing
Kelly Frazer pumping water out of his cylinders after the second Biblical flood
A certain SOC member channeling Geraldine & Moms Mabley.
Cory Drake trying to do me a PIT maneuver at the go cart track a few years back.....No dood...it didn't work then and I'd like you to try it again.... :-)
The Any-Time Day or Night Hoopty Towing Service, no job too big or too small. [Damn, I was sure I had a picture of this . . .]
Fighting for the banquet room at the Sunnyside to get the Peugeot folks out.
Hoss' Hat
"Go Karting"
And, of course......Future Hoopty drivers:
Danny's neck injury who could forget that ( Carting is a very serious thing- for me anyway: )
Heading home on Sunday with more water on the car floor than outside the car~
" The kitchen door incident "
Me nearly getting busted by a female Rent A Cop in a golf cart for being over zealous out on the back forty asphalt ~
Egg Sammiches ! ! ! ! !
Was it 2012 or 13 when Patrice Lumuba's second Cousin hosted their Nephew's grad party in the room right next to ours at the Saturday Nights Gala Awards thing?
Jungle music....like LOUD jungle music persisted for a LONG time and I remember Jack Crosby's excellent Son Russ dragged me in and out of there and we scoffed a couple of free drinks en route.
The 2004 "longest distance driven"award winner drove from Iowa. He missed the Saturday evening awards dinnerbecause he was admitted to the hospital for chest pains but his wife attended and accepted the award. The next morning we were surprised to see him at the showfield. Turned out the pains were not caused by his heart but by cramps from driving his Speedster that long.
In 2012 we took the long way to Carlisle.
In the category of on-site repairs:
What did I miss?
Bill Drayer and I changing his throttle cable in under 9 minutes while we were on a cruise to dinner (and we got there first! - via a short-cut).
It's funny - we don't usually have a lot of repairs in any one year, but when you look back over the years (especially in Lane's list) there seem to have been a lot. The biggest, for Chris and me, was when the cam positioning sensor on his F250 diesel died as we left the Ramada and Cory had to tow the truck and the trailer with Pearl on it, back to the Hotel parking lot with the Hoopty.
Oh! And the heart surgery for Carl Berry's fuel pump!
And I remember making several trips through the vendor tent area over the years, looking for parts to fix something or other on someone else's car, and more than one trip to the Car Quest on RT 11.
And no matter how early you got up because you couldn't sleep and wandered out to the parking lot, there would be Leon Chupp, coffee in hand, enjoying the early morning.
And don't forget George Brown's two IMs - That last one was like a Stanistan "Tour-de-Force" in custom touches and the inspiration for Jim Ward's famous "Ruby"....and George's came complete with the cranky, over-built racing engine.
And remember Tony's coral-colored Speedster with the cat tracks all over it?
And every, single year, we always get a "drive in", never associated with the SOC, with a story - The 550 flat-towed behind a Lincoln Continental, the GORGEOUS Speedsters that come out of no where, The Beck owner who just picked up his car in Bremen and stopped by Carlisle on his way to Florida (Didn't he have a Triumph Spitfire tattoo?), The MG Replica guy from Nova Scotia (he was a hoot!) and who can forget Nolan's Volvo Mechanic 'Nephew', who's the same age (or slightly older).
Good years, great people, fun times.
Here's to the Carlisle Veterans from Biggs and Wild Bill!
Talked to Tony within the last year he still has " Paws"
Carlisle is a self induced Madness, a challenge for me to have another Speedster done and sorted just in time . Same applies this year as I'm building a speedster for Chris Kerr.
Yeah, it's always a race between you and Lane......
Connie wants to know who the hot beer hoisting guy is ?
Lane Anderson posted:
- Watching David change his windshield out at Carlisle
- Watching David curse as he broke yet another one.
Now, Lane. Technically it wasn't me that changed out the windshield. It became broken overnight somehow and yes, that was me doing the cursing.... :-)
"And don't forget George Brown's two IMs - That last one was like a Stanistan "Tour-de-Force" in custom touches and the inspiration for Jim Ward's famous "Ruby"....and George's came complete with the cranky, over-built racing engine."
Sometimes I miss old George on this site, and his famous T1 vs T4 battles. I loved his second Speedster, one of the first ones with rack and pinion steering, and knew that was what I wanted in my next one. I remember Henry telling me he had a few battles with George over building that car. George had strong beliefs on what 'could be done' on a Speedster.
And I forgot all about:
Ya know, this all sounds more like an encounter group, than a fun week end paling around with your buds. A Martian would think that these creatures (us) are crazy to ride around in machines that have so many reliability issues -- doing constant road-side and parking-lot side repairs. And so the truth is that said Martian would be right -- this IS how we gather and have fun, greasy fingernails and all. Oh, and the beer, and the 35 year old scotch, and the cigars, and the sammiches and . . .
Gordon, I'm still looking for the pics I took of da Hoopty towing your multi-wheeled and multi ton lash-up out of harms way and over to the hotel.
Not that this is out of the Way-back machine, being only '14, but this is pretty much how it goes, some times . . .
Somebody say Hoss and Hat??
....wonder when those three discovered the motor was in the back ?
I got lucky with an unusual pic on my first trip to Carlisle in 2011. Aaron White passing me and Nolan Scott in my rear view mirror. Looks like Aaron needed to tighten up that top.
Dusty the magician - he just disappeared along with the girl in blue -
Would be great to see Dusty again.
Pretty sure the girl in blue will never return. 
When Dusty could no longer command being the center of attention he faded away.......A nice guy with extreme leather and magician talents.
Yeah, Dusty had a way about him. He got scuffed over pretty good by the SoCal faction over their spring gatherings, which orchestrated for a time. I always found him very personable. He had (has??) a damn nice Speedy.
Dusty is a fine man and I always enjoyed his company.
I only met him the once. He does make beautiful hood straps, though. We put them on my IM6, and they are great.
I always enjoyed his company at Carlisle and am sorry that things turned out as they did.
Dusty is the very coolest Cowboy that I've ever known. Well, OK, so he's the ONLY cowboy that I've ever known, but if you're gonna know one, he might as well be the coolest. His slide presentation to the group at Carlisle of his trek cross-country to join us was priceless and I'll never forget it. He and Sharon were the ones who found the "Boiling Springs Tavern" for us.
Anyway, here are Kelly's long-lost photos of Cory towing the "Five Cent Racing" Transporter off of RT 11 and back into the Ramada parking lot:
Then, we had to figure out what to do next (and that involved "30 East Transportation":
That resulted in one of those classic calls home: "Hey! Chris' truck died just as we were getting on I-81 to come home. Cory towed us back to the Motel. Looks like we'll have to take it to a dealer to get it fixed, so we'll be staying another night".
"I thought you guys could fix anything!"
Yeah, well......We're really gonna sit around with the Speedstah Folks and drink more beer."
"I thought so....Well.....See ya tomorrow sometime, then."
What no pics of 30 East Transport ?
Epilog:
I had just returned home when I got the call from Gordon, hauled the car carrier back up to Carlisle , winched the dead Ford truck aboard the wedge trailer and back to Chambersburg unloading at the local Ford dealer then on to the house with Gordon and Chris. In the AM, we went back to the Ford dealer, they were kind enough to quickly replace the crank sensor while we had breakfast and the Nichols boys were soon on the highway headed home.
Yeah! Lots-o-Wild memories! Howz about Bruce and Norma motoring all of a half mile from the Hotel Carlisle on the way to The All-American and running outta gas. I still have the gas can I bought to get him going!
~WB
As I remember it, Al Merklin only took the F250 pickup on his wedge trailer (and believe me, that truck was way up there after he loaded it!). That left the trailer and Pearl sitting in the Ramada parking lot. But never fear! Rocky Cimbrec (the first, other Speedstah Guy I ever met, via a kit car email Bulletin Board in the 1990's) came to our rescue and towed Pearl on her trailer from Carlisle all the way down to Chambersburg (about an hour) and dropped her off at Alan's house while Al (and Chris) dropped the truck off at his local Ford dealer ("You really don't want to have those Carlise mechanics work on your truck...")
So we show up at the dealer just before 7am on Monday, give the Service guy our story and were told, "Yup, we can fix it - got the parts and everything.....Why don't you guys go to this little breakfast place up the street and have breakfast and we'll call you when it's done."
Sure enough, we got half-way through breakfast and get the call to come and pick it up 'as soon as you're done eating'. Chambersburg Ford is pretty cool.
It's a 7 hour ride home from Carlisle to mid-Massachusetts. We spent the first three hours waiting, constantly, for the truck to die again.......but it never did.
Those electronic gizmos in all the newer cars and trucks are not like little brass thingies that fly around the garage unnoticed. They either work, or they don't. And when they don't, unlike Speedsters, no amount of shade-tree bailing wire and duct tape is gonna make it better. An electronic "module" in my old pick-up died right in the middle of one of the busiest intersections in the county, at rush hour, many years ago. Dead as a door nail. Had to be towed.
Sharp eyes will note the police cruiser in Gordon's pic here. He showed up to help protect the public safety. I do not recall in what capacity he did that, but I do recall his profound incredulity at the towing job done here.
I gotta believe that cop is still telling that story in some bar.
And Danny Pip weighing every Speedster in attendance one year. Actually weighed the front then the rear of the car. Mine weighed 1,763 # with 46% in front and 54% in the rear.
Thanks Danny!
My first Carlisle was 2009 and I remembered being inspired by a guy I didn't know, (Henry) working on a car named Ruby owned by another guy I didn't know, (Allan) while a few of us held umbrellas and tarps over them in a pouring rain, compete with thunder and lightning .
I remember thinking to myself, " these are quality people". My wife and I have been going ever since. She insists.
Oh yeah, I forgot Danny and the scales! I think mine was the lightest Speedster at 1,700# even, but weight distribution was less balanced than Jack's at 39/61.
EDIT: Al, if I recall correctly I won a Weber rebuild kit at the drawing the night before and wound up donating a gasket out of it for Ruby's "medical" procedure. Ah, memories...
