You forgot my wife was born. Way more important than how crappy the Corvette was that year.
Sorry, didn't know that Eric, girls don't want you to know their age anyways:shrug:
I know this much, all this upper 90's heat is making me look even further to our trip where it gets no warmer than 80 and even that's a stretch, this has been crazy! I don't know how people deal with going down to the Dragon in the summer monthes, I bet its like this all the time down there
Speaking of our trip, its never to early to talk about how we're going to do things this year as far as groups. I thought it worked out pretty well last year with what, 2 to 3 different groups going out, I don't think anyone had a problem with that. One thing I'd like though is for everyone to be at the paved meeting spot for a group shot, that other area, although larger is just too bright to take good pics and kinda warm there, compared to the large rock wall and trees where we usually meet up at. I ofcoarse will lead the noob group/slower cars again, no problem. I will also be heading out in the morning with a couple people as well, its something myself and others have wanted to do, so in that case we might just head up to Hardee's for a quick bite or eat in the cabin and hit the road, early. Once we do that we'll end up meeting the rest of the group sometime out there, we all know where we're going now and even if the noobs don't wanna do this,there' s enough people who sleep in a little later that they can go out with, some of the Fit guys/gals have been out there before which is a good thing and I know the the husband/wife team with their Fits are pretty good drivers out there, so they should be good to go:laugh:
The night run is on again and what we ended up doing last year was hangin' out on the Dragon till later and heading towards 411 and heading into town (whatever town that is) and found an awesome authentic Mexican restaraunt and let me tell you, it was AWESOME! The food and service were top notch and we're going back there again. It gives us a chance to eat and let the sun go down and the road to clear itself out. I know some people will chose to go back to the cabins and that's cool, never a set in stone plan with this run anyways, especially with how large the group is now. I really enjoyed the night run last year, alot and its gotta happen every year now for sure. Our group consisted of 4 cars and although I don't mind more cars out there spacing is key for sure, the lead car of the pair must know the road pretty well and have good lighting and the second car needs to be either a little slower or respect the car infront of them, its even more important than during the day, its PITCH BLACK OUT THERE! I bet we double our night run from last year and even though it was my first time out there last year at night, having Hectour infront of me made it that much better. He's a Dragon vet, has a much faster car than I and he knows who's behind him, me and that made it really enjoyable. I got to follow his tailights and actually use his headlights to help me along, all along pushing my Fit about as hard as I could and had the brakes smoking pretty good pulling into a dark and deserted Deals Gap for a cool down! Safety is key at night time too, once we get on the Skyway its my opinion that we should try and stay together a little better and keep an eye out for the last car(s) in the group, the Skyway as you guys know is NO joke, especially at night time, anything can happen.
My car currently has 30k on the clock, so the brakes are still good and the tires have 19k, so by the time the trip happens I should be around 33-34k on the car and about 22-24k on the tires, so I'm still ok there but by the 10th anniversery trip I will have new rotors/pads up front and a new set of tires for sure. I mention this because its so important that the noobs understand how important the tires and brakes are out there, everything is put to the test and this is NOT the place to either cut corners and/or have issues with either of these important items on the car. Vehicle maintence will be brought up again and again as well closer to the Dragon run so the noobs see it and respect this advice, I will also post it more and more on the other forums as well, but the nice thing this year is that most of the noobs have either been out there before or are level headed people, so that really helps out.
On with the countdown........
-Santana releases "Moonflower" (my personal favorite and a deserted island pick for sure!)
-"Downsizing" of Chevrolet's full-sized cars begins with the Caprice/Impala
-Jeff Beck teams up with Ian Hammer (guy who wrote the theme music to "Miami Vice") and releases an awesome live album.
-Star Wars episode IV is released...the rest is history!
-Jimmy Carter becomes president...very forgetful to say the least IMO
When did all this happen you may ask.....1977, we've only got SEVENTY SEVEN MORE DAYS!
and he's stepped back in to a Honda, kinda. He bought an 04' RSX type S yesterday. Its metallic black w/black leather and has 102k on the clock w/ a Comptech cat-back and intake of some type, he didn't really know who's it is. The Honda count is now at 7 and who knows where its going to end:shrug: