Project: LONG HAUL - LONG ROOF

[Debington]

Well, the wagon and I made it through the weekend at the Midwest MuscleCar Challenge without a problem. The wagon just keeps going even when I doubt it. I ended up with 2 practice sessions of about 15 minutes each and then 5 timed laps. We were not the fastest on the road course Saturday but, the car handles like a dream. The transmission on the other hand was starting to loose some fluid by the end of the timed session and was smoking pretty bad, the review mirror even ended up splattered with trans fluid. (figure that one out!) It is probably more of my fear of pushing it to the edge the then car not being able to handle it. My instructor was even a great sport in riding the road course with only lap belts. Thank you Jeff Preston for all the pointers, I was feeling much more comfortable by the end the day.

Sunday was a full day with the Autocross and speed stop. Once again the wagon did great, I would like to have more power but, I am getting lots of practice and having a blast getting through the cones. I had to laugh, after I let Sam have a go at running the wagon on the auto cross, he said he has been giving me the wrong advice on the line I should be running, it was harder than he though to maneuver it through the cones. I have decided that I will keep running the wheels off the wagon and having a blast. I will just go through the learning curve again once it has made it to the top of the projects list and gets upgrades that will make "us" better!

From the 10/10ths photobucket page, me getting ready to enter the road course




Picture that Kaytlin took at the autocross