Happy Birthday Annie, i am double you age and alittle bit, but I still have the same passion for Buicks that you do! I hope to meet you in Norwalk next May. i will be driving an old Buick. I leave my GS at home. :Brow: :3gears:
You know you're getting old when.... ...your BDay celebration consists of eating out at lunch with some friends, then eating out at dinner with some other friends, and then home by 9 pm!! :eek2: Further, I spent the dinnertime harassing our cute little waiter. I would have pegged him at 18 or 19. Later discovered he was 25!! Man, how your perspective changes as the years pile on.......... Vern, I always meant to share this story. First let me preface it with this: Lucille: was stored for about 10 years before I got her, nearly all original (different trans, but engine #'s match), 112k miles, still running points, doesn't look to have ever been rebuilt, power everything, drum brakes, 293 open rear end. Not exactly 'race ready'!! But she runs good and I've had a lot of help from Dave Hemker getting things tuned up a bit. The Driver: since I have a prosthetic right leg, all my vehicles have a left foot accelerator adaptor - basically another accelerator pedal to the left of the original brake pedal. So, I have no way to power brake the car, thus burnouts aren't great and I have to keep my foot on the brake until launch, which means I'm starting from a dead idle. Further, I watched what, 3 days of racing? Went down the track once with Roberta, and all of a sudden I'm racing?? So basically, you have an old, somewhat tired pegleg car being driven by a complete novice, yet enthusiastic pegleg girl!! :laugh: Not offered as an excuse for the resulting times, but as IN SPITE OF all this, Lucille and I made 7 runs. Started in the high 15s, but after we figured it out and got over the performance anxiety, left the track with a 15.28 and a 15.01 best for the day!!!! :bglasses: :laugh: :Brow: :laugh: Just a test n tune day, got wasted every time out by young boys in newer cars until the last run where we walked over a kid in a Grand Am/Prix GT. Always leave on a good run! YeeHaw!! Worst part of the day was a run I made against this nappy Mustang, 80s body style, primer gray, didn't look like much. Half way down the track, he passes me on my left, I look over - and there's a CAR SEAT in the back seat!!! :eek2: uzzled: I busted out laughing, laughed all the way to end - may as well been beat by a soccer mom in a minivan!! ou: o No: Ah, well, wait til next year...
Annie, Loved your story, and I dig your tenacity. You know what they say.. even a bad day racing is better than a good day working. Then again the best days racing usually come after a hard days wrenching/working. The only really bad days racing are when you crash or break something that is hard to replace. I had to grin when I read your story as it reminded me of a friend Ellie back in high school. She was a blast to hang out with and a fun & tenacious character. Most kids tried to be cool or popular or just be quiet follow the herd and stay out of ridicule's way. Ellie's parents I think were military so she was used to moving and meeting new people. Basically she could give a crap less what the in crowd thought. She also happen to have a prostetic leg and often threatened that she was going to take if off and hit me over the head with it. :grin: You know at this point that your are way too close to a 14 second time slip not to get one. p :3gears:
