RE: [DML] Digest Number 115

["Gus Schlachter" <gus@xxxx>]

OK, Bill, you got me fair and square. I thought it would be cheap for me to
vie for the award. But I don't know that I'd want to bar people simply for
not having driven. What if we'd had someone from Australia at Cleveland?
The certainly didn't drive the whole way, but if they made it from the other
end of the earth (and brought their car, no less) that has to be worth
*something*. I mean, what would they have to do? Drive the car around the
deck of the ship on it's way here? Maybe we should have separate awards for
Distance Traveled and Distance Driven...it's not like there are cash prizes.
:)

Oh, and I did pick up my car yesterday from DMC in Houston. No tickets yet,
despite seeing my tach hit 4000 in 5th gear.


Gus Schlachter
Austin, TX
VIN# 4695



> -----Original Message-----
> From: William H. Swilley [mailto:billswilley@xxxx]
> Sent: Friday, June 30, 2000 10:28 AM
> Subject: Re: [DML] Digest Number 115
>
> Actually, I may still have beaten you, as I drove from Houston by way of
> Dallas and clocked 1507 miles door to door, and I think that would have
> beaten an Austin-Cleveland run. But the comment does cause me to raise a
> point. IMO, our meets should be about the CARS and their DRIVERS. Last
> fall, I drove to an event in an unnamed Southern state, only to be beaten
> out by someone who had FLOWN in from one location and had their car
> TRAILERED in from another. I take great pride in having and
> maintaining a
> fresh looking but high mileage car, and found it abit peeve provoking to
> find the award to be about AIRLINE TICKETS and TRAILERS. Comments anyone?
>
> I just have to pick on Gus a bit, since, because of him, I now have the
> SECOND fastest, normally aspirated PRV DeLorean in the world
> (that I'm aware
> of). BTW, I got to drive Gus's car the other day in Houston (just more
> "proof of concept", you understand), and LOVED the way it ran! I
> had driven
> it before without the headers installed, and was impressed with the
> difference they made. That baby just wants to run! I'm afraid
> that "drag
> racer" Gus is going to find it a "ticket magnet". Keep us posted, Gus
>
> Bill Swilley
> VIN: 4730
> LIC: 81 DMC (Texas)
>
>
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