If I could have said it that well, I would have.
The same goes for shows. It's down right easy to have a show car that you keep in
the garage and drive it to the driveway where your trailer is waiting. That's
about the only thing I can do well to a car by myself is clean it. Been doing it
since I was 5, love it.
Jon Steiger wrote:
> At 10:37 PM 3/24/98 -0600, you wrote:
> >
> > Well officer, this guy named Gene said I should practice, practice, practice.
> >
> > But seriously folks (for once) thanks for the info, it should be sunny and 75
> > here this weekend. I know if it's dry when I wake up at noon on Saturday,
> > I'll be out there. Some of the cars I saw waiting to "test and tune" when
> > the track was wet last Sat. tells me I'd better race the clock, 'cause I'm
> > going to get my "daily driven" butt kicked.
> > Robert
>
> Probably so. :-) But there are other daily drivers out there too.
> When I went up to NY International Raceway Park last year, I parked the Dak
> and just wandered around for a little bit. Some of the monsters that were
> being backed out of trailers were downright scary. :-)
>
> I think most of the fun of racing comes from having a daily driver though.
> I mean, what good is a trailer queen? You can race it, but then what? Stick
> it in your front yard so people can "oooh" and "ahhh" as they drive by? Its
> sort of like having a gun with no ammunition. (Unless of course you've
> got the money for a second car that you can't really "use".)
>
> One of the best parts about going to the track happened while I was
> in line outside, waiting for them to open the gates. Everyone in line had
> their engines off, and the track is out in the middle of nowhere, so you could
> hear the cars as they came to the track. It would be completely silent, then
> you'd hear a big ol' V8 accellerating from the nearby intersection, then you'd
> get to see what you just heard pulling in the entrance. "Ahhh, just a boring
> ol' Mustang... Hey, a nice purple Challenger! There's a 'Cuda!" The trailer
> queens may be impressive at the track, but there's something really neat about
> these daily drivers coming off the street; converging on the racetrack, to
> "run what you brung"...
>
> Ok, I'll shut up now. :-)
>
> -Jon-
>
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