SpectraPat
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Azusa Canyon?? for fuck your old...just saying...
Yep, and it was a great time back in the 80’s. Pretty much do anything you wanted in the canyon back in the day.
No stickers for me.
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I never put stickers on my racing box, but these two were special. I was the chief mechanic on the lowest of the low buck entries at Indy that year.
Our driver crashed the car on Friday, the day before the last weekend of qualifying, and was injured. The car was hammered. We stayed up all night putting it back together. The car owner hired ex Formula One and CART driver Roberto Moreno to drive, and we went out on Saturday and qualified with a very weak 216 MPH average, The pole was 229 something. We worked on it all day, it was still a pig.
Sunday came around, last day. We kept going out during practice periods to find more speed, and were about to be bumped out of the race. Sometime around 4:45, Roberto clicked off four laps above 220. Qualifying ended at 6:00.
We withdrew our earlier time, got in the qualifying line, and Roberto put it in the show with 220.216 four lap average. We were on the inside of the last row, but I didn't care. Qualifying for the 500 is damn difficult, especially with a three year old car. Our crew chief won the Clint Brawner Award, given to the person that best illustrates the traits of a master mechanic during the Month of May.
That was the good part.
The bad part was Moreno crashed and we finished last. I pulled the stickers off the car and put them on my box.
The next year I had my first knee replacement, and that was the end of racing for rrrr. But it's a great memory.
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Beer's a toolView attachment 931319
Not on my tool box but I'll play. Bought this new for the wife 8 or 9 years ago but it kept freezing everything even on the warmest setting. She said she wanted to send it back, I said bullshit I got a better ideashe got a new fridge and I've had icicles in my beer ever since
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I like the Klein Tools sticker.View attachment 931319
Not on my tool box but I'll play. Bought this new for the wife 8 or 9 years ago but it kept freezing everything even on the warmest setting. She said she wanted to send it back, I said bullshit I got a better ideashe got a new fridge and I've had icicles in my beer ever since
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I have those same Craftsman Quick wrenches. I don't think I have actually ever used them LOL.
I have those same Craftsman Quick wrenches. I don't think I have actually ever used them LOL.
Love the Trick Racing Fuel
If you remind me when you pick up your son's engine, I will give you a selection of engine parts stickers. Currently waiting on news from the shop on the block and heads.
Thanks Barry!If you remind me when you pick up your son's engine, I will give you a selection of engine parts stickers. Currently waiting on news from the shop on the block and heads.