Re: [T3] invasion camping pictures!

[Toby Erkson <air_cooled_nut@pobox.com>]

<x-flowed>Brian and I cruised down Saturday from his place and spent the night at 
the track.  This is fun because you can walk around and talk with the 
racers and get really close to the race cars.  Dan Lawson (is that 
right, Brian?) has an uber-sweet, all-motor Notch dragster with a carbon 
fiber rear body and some carbon up front.  Just going from FIBERGLASS to 
CARBON FIBER shaved 70 pounds from the cars weight -- imagine the weight 
savings from metal (John J. you don't count ;-).  And it's wicked-fast 
to boot!

I met several listees so that's always nice to match a face with a 
name.  I also met some hopefully 'new' listees.  I've found it's good to 
stick around the cars in the show because people have questions.  The 
alternator is always a conversation starter and it's how I meet new T3 
owners and send them to the vwtype3 list.  I really need to get some 
business sized cards made up that have the three important T3 web sites 
I recommend to people (mine for the alternator, vwtype3.org, and the 
DDB's for parts).

Greg has a plethora of literature, stuff I didn't even know existed, 
like how to be a VW car salesman and a map of all of the authorized VW 
shops in Germany...let me tell you, there were more shops on that map 
than Starbucks Coffee houses in Seattle!  Tony's purple Squareback is a 
winner, pure and simple.  It's a driver and not a trailer bitc...queen, 
as any car should be and all very well executed.  This car needs to be 
seen and seen in person.  He is also a good source of info and showed me 
his custom performance exhaust and how he made his heat exchangers (not 
as difficult as I thought).  Look for more custom cars to come out of 
his domain...

In the swap area I got a T3 muffler with upper heat exchangers for $20 
and it's in very good condition!  I'm thinking of brushing the rust off 
and mounting it above my fireplace.  Those dashes were a little too nice 
and clean looking for me -- I suspect they were reproductions.  I know 
some of the breasts on the bikini contestants were.

My baby got a mileage best of 26mpg thanks to Brian's carb tuning skills 
and jetting down the carbs.  Power all over the place...quickly passing 
cars in 5th gear while going UPHILL!  On the way home in Portland I even 
made a light blue 360 Modena Ferrari pause, s-l-o-w-l-y pass by me 
checking out my Bright Orange Cop Bait ride before screaming off into 
the distance.  How much you wanna bet he wanted one?  He wasn't the only 
unique automobile on the road that day :-)

   Toby Erkson  --  air_cooled_nut@pobox.com
   '72 VW Squareback, '95 VW Jetta, '81 Gold Wing, '73 Porsche 914
   http://www.icbm.org/
   Portland, Oregon



phillip bradfield -- volkshaus wrote:

> Oh, forgot one thing. Did you notice the Pigalle Red dash for sale in Greg's
> pics? Asking price? $300! Needless to say, I didn't take it home...
>
>  

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