[Meatloaf] Photos from Speed Show at Fairgrounds last weekend

[Dave Daniel]

When I was in high school in Old Lyme, CT, my parents bought a Chevy station wagon (remember those?) with a 450+ HP engine. I drove it to school during my senior year is HS, which, of course, involved several "free periods" during the day, and "we" (who shall remain nameless) used to go racing around town (look at Old Lyme on a map; "racing" meant MAYBE getting up to 50 MPH on US1).

Anyway, there is (or was) an Episcopal church on a sharp right hand corner. I was "racing" one day in the station wagon and took that corner at a speed higher than was smart and almost flipped the station wagon. I had a friend with me in the wagon. He turned white as a bleached hankerchief. It turned out that Chevy knew how to build suspension systems.

I have had a painting of that church in my home for decades, just to remind me of the stupid things that I did back then and to try and not keep doing stupid things (that hasn't really worked, but I think the idea is sound).

DaveD
KC0WJN

Thanks for all the fish.
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> On Sep 5, 2024, at 21:19, frank.szeflinski at gmail.com wrote:
> 
> Official Joe's Spoon Reflector.
> 
> All your base are belong to us. You are on the way to destruction.
> You have no chance to survive make your time. HA HA HA HA...
> For great justice.
> 
> A '68 Oldsmobile Delmonte with a 455 cubic inch engine.  Not being a
> gearhead, I can only tell the story of racing a 944 Porche that finally
> passed me while I was doing about 135.  No bar on the speedometer, but the
> numbers stopped at 120, so it's a guesstimate.  I coulda gone faster, but
> the road was windy, and although I knew it well, I also knew a bump was
> coming up and I didn't want to go airborne.
> 
>> On Thu, Sep 5, 2024, 2:51 PM Arvid Qvigstad <aqretired at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Official Joe's Spoon Reflector.
>> 
>> All your base are belong to us. You are on the way to destruction.
>> You have no chance to survive make your time. HA HA HA HA...
>> For great justice.
>> 
>> Mine was a '68 Plymouth Satellite - Belvedere model.  But the insurance
>> company wanted to charge rates for a Road Runner.
>> 
>> It was (almost) a road runner without the decals and other extra trim.
>> 
>> 383 4 barrel with a high performance cam and solid lifters (from the
>> factory).  The drive train starting with the oversized clutch was 440
>> GTX all the way back to the 4.11 positracion rear.
>> 
>> When my (auto mechanic) brother tuned it I got 40 in 1st, 90 in 2nd, in
>> 3rd the needle kept bouncing off the 120 mark.  I don't know what 4th
>> was but I tried it twice.  Both times it scared the sh*t out of me.
>> 
>> If I had the $$ I'd find one and have it restored.
>> 
>>> On 9/5/2024 11:25 AM, pt wrote:
>>> Official Joe's Spoon Reflector.
>>> 
>>> All your base are belong to us. You are on the way to destruction.
>>> You have no chance to survive make your time. HA HA HA HA...
>>> For great justice.
>>> 
>>> Yea, well I had a 1965 AMC Rambler.  327 with four doors.  And yes, queue
>>> up the Almond Brothers ....
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Sep 3, 2024 at 8:42 PM Douglas Bair<Douglas.Bair at prodigy.net>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Official Joe's Spoon Reflector.
>>>> 
>>>> All your base are belong to us. You are on the way to destruction.
>>>> You have no chance to survive make your time. HA HA HA HA...
>>>> For great justice.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> In my day, I had a blue 1967 Corvette fast back, 427 but only a single 4
>>>> barrel carb,
>>>> factory side pipes, factory scoop, and a 2 (yes two) speed automatic
>>>> tranny.
>>>> 
>>>> I tried and tried to blow out the tranny, to avail.
>>>> 
>>>> If you fold down the mini back seat there was room to have sex on the
>> back
>>>> area.
>>>> 
>>>> I hated to turn it in for a more sensible car.
>>>> 
>>>> Doug
>>>> 
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