View Full Version : It's official.. I'm insane...
Steve1968LS2
07-15-2009, 06:56 PM
Last minute airline ticket to St. Louis = $369
Holiday Inn Express for two nights = $198
Rental Car = $78
Driving '68 Camaro at autocross for five hours = Priceless
My Camaro is over at Bowler Transmission getting some wiring work by Tom. Now I heard a rumor that they were having an open house, but I didn't hear until the Columbus event that part of the show was a full blown SCCA autocross course on Saturday!!!
How could I let my car sit a mile from an autocross event and not be there to beat on it??
So I broke open the piggy bank and booked the trip. I will be in town for an entire 38 hours before I fly home. lol
I'm sick and I hope there's no cure!
:woot:
p.s. I have a great, and understanding, wife too!
formula
07-15-2009, 07:00 PM
Sometimes you just have to be crazy to keep that smile on your face during the mindnumbingly sane parts of life!
Have fun-take pics!
MrQuick
07-15-2009, 07:03 PM
I've been telling you this for years..... enjoy yourself cause you can't take it with you. Mucho pixs a must senior.
Mr.VENGEANCE
07-15-2009, 07:06 PM
i hope to catch that same fever you have my man..
6'9"Witha69
07-15-2009, 08:19 PM
I have the fever, just not the pocketbook for the medicine. Have fun!
Larry Callahan
07-15-2009, 08:34 PM
Way to go!!
Damn True
07-15-2009, 08:43 PM
I have the fever,
There's only one cure:
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6'9"Witha69
07-15-2009, 09:02 PM
:lmao::rotfl:
More Cowbell!!!!!
zbugger
07-15-2009, 09:59 PM
Yes Steve, you are insane. But I don't know if that beats what Vince and I have done.... And we're only a little nuts.
CptKlutz
07-15-2009, 10:41 PM
Steve, you're perfectly normal! I flew to San Diego for the weekend (extended though) to do the gauge cluster on my Stang build. And I'm in Europe! :sick:
JEFFTATE
07-16-2009, 04:41 AM
Good for you Steve !
When are you coming to Georgia ???
Happyfunballs
07-16-2009, 04:56 AM
Hope you enjoyed our fair city. Looks like you got a great rate on a rental car.:bugeyes
68/CamaroFL
07-16-2009, 06:23 AM
Steve,
We are All Sick! In a Good way!:drive1:
406 Q-ship
07-16-2009, 08:03 AM
Last minute airline ticket to St. Louis = $369
Holiday Inn Express for two nights = $198
Rental Car = $78
Driving '68 Camaro at autocross for five hours = Priceless
My Camaro is over at Bowler Transmission getting some wiring work by Tom. Now I heard a rumor that they were having an open house, but I didn't hear until the Columbus event that part of the show was a full blown SCCA autocross course on Saturday!!!
How could I let my car sit a mile from an autocross event and not be there to beat on it??
So I broke open the piggy bank and booked the trip. I will be in town for an entire 38 hours before I fly home. lol
I'm sick and I hope there's no cure!
:woot:
p.s. I have a great, and understanding, wife too!
Steve,
If that is an illness I don't want a cure. :seizure:
Steve is coming the the Bowler Transmission show this weekend for 2 reasons:
1. to eat our famous ribs and partake in copious amounts of cocktails on Saturday night
2. to kick my ass in the autocross [again]
I have my Z06 together now...we'll see how that plays out.
I must say, for a small show in the middle of a cornfield, there is a HUGE amount of plain fun. Autcross on Saturday [nice concrete course on an old airstrip lot] and a very informal drag race on Sunday right on the old airstrip. VERY worthwhile coming to!
http://www.ridetech.com/more/2009/07/13/bowler-transmissions-a-day-at-the-strip/
http://bowlertransmissions.com/
Krazed
07-16-2009, 10:31 AM
Holy crap, you're married? How can your wife stand you spending all this money? haha
Finch
07-16-2009, 01:56 PM
Steve is coming the the Bowler Transmission show this weekend for 2 reasons:
1. to eat our famous ribs and partake in copious amounts of cocktails on Saturday night
2. to kick my ass in the autocross [again]
I have my Z06 together now...we'll see how that plays out.
I must say, for a small show in the middle of a cornfield, there is a HUGE amount of plain fun. Autcross on Saturday [nice concrete course on an old airstrip lot] and a very informal drag race on Sunday right on the old airstrip. VERY worthwhile coming to!
http://www.ridetech.com/more/2009/07/13/bowler-transmissions-a-day-at-the-strip/
http://bowlertransmissions.com/
You had me at Rib's.......
The rest is just gravy
justimagine
07-16-2009, 02:27 PM
Speaking from experience, this is one of the best run, most fun events you can attend with your clothes on! Mark and his team do a great job of making everybody feel welcome and at home, while providing one of the coolest venues in the midwest for autocross and drag racing. Steven, you'll have a blast.
Steve1968LS2
07-16-2009, 03:21 PM
Holy crap, you're married? How can your wife stand you spending all this money? haha
Simple.. we go to the Coach store and she gets something.. I get a new set of wheels and she gets some other trinket.
It's to the point now where she encourages me to spend money on my car. lol
Mr.VENGEANCE
07-16-2009, 03:29 PM
that only builds speed my friend... eventually youll be going 200mph and she will be going mach2 in purses and bags..
ask me how i know... ahaha
Yelcamino
07-16-2009, 03:57 PM
Simple.. we go to the Coach store and she gets something.. I get a new set of wheels and she gets some other trinket.
It's to the point now where she encourages me to spend money on my car. lol
That's the only way to build a car if you're married!
Krazed
07-16-2009, 04:41 PM
Simple.. we go to the Coach store and she gets something.. I get a new set of wheels and she gets some other trinket.
It's to the point now where she encourages me to spend money on my car. lol
Dammit! It's so simple! Why didn't I think of that? :idea:
Steve1968LS2
07-16-2009, 06:16 PM
Dammit! It's so simple! Why didn't I think of that? :idea:
I follow a 20% rule.. if I spend a grand she gets something (dinner, gift, etc) worth $200...
Of course I Enron some of the stuff I buy.. A grand in gauges becomes $600.. that sort of deal.
I have a spreadsheat to keep track of it all.. lol
Bill Howell
07-16-2009, 06:26 PM
Cool Steve, see you there. I even talked Melinda into going again, twice in a month she has gone to a show with me.....
Bret, I am bringing my vette, it will be fun to see how the two compare.
Mr.VENGEANCE
07-16-2009, 06:32 PM
she better not see this thread then.. she'll sneak peak the recipe of your hustle..
mc84_zz4
07-16-2009, 08:40 PM
she better not see this thread then.. she'll sneak peak the recipe of your hustle..
Steve's got the power to hide all incriminating evidence...lol
What post?!?
:smoke:
Steve, Your honey is a keeper...lucky guy, my wife would want to reverse-Enron that deal:
I get tires for $1,000, she would get a new kitchen....lol
Simple.. we go to the Coach store and she gets something.. I get a new set of wheels and she gets some other trinket.
It's to the point now where she encourages me to spend money on my car. lol
My Boss 429 cost me a new kitchen as well. I haven't got the "invoice" for the new engine in Velocity yet.
In reality...Sharon had more hotrods and a bigger toolbox than I did when we got married. She is all in on the car thing...thank God!
Steve1968LS2
07-17-2009, 05:25 PM
My Boss 429 cost me a new kitchen as well. I haven't got the "invoice" for the new engine in Velocity yet.
In reality...Sharon had more hotrods and a bigger toolbox than I did when we got married. She is all in on the car thing...thank God!
I hear ya brother!
I'm here in the bustling metropolis.. lol
Can't wait until tomorrow.. I plan on using up these tires and rides will be given all day long so come one out!
What! Bowler does automatics. I thought Penny was a T56? Is this Track Rat that's being worked on?
MarkB
07-20-2009, 07:56 PM
Just a quick note, to clear things up. We build a few manuals, such as T56, Tremec, Muncie, 833, along with a couple more. We just don't really promote it since we specialize in automatics. Everyone just knows us for our automatics. Not too much cool stuff you can do with a manual. But we will support the ones that want to shift gears.
Thanks,
Mark
mpozzi
07-21-2009, 07:48 AM
My Boss 429 cost me a new kitchen as well. I haven't got the "invoice" for the new engine in Velocity yet.
In reality...Sharon had more hotrods and a bigger toolbox than I did when we got married. She is all in on the car thing...thank God!
Oh man ... I'm going to be in trouble if I have to build Dave a new shop.
Cheers,
Mary Pozzi
Thanks Mark. I had no clue you guys did some manuals which si what threw me for a loop.
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