Originally from September 23, 2010
Last night everyone got together at Tinyvette Corporate headquarters (Alan’s house), everyone local that is, for a stop-putting-this-off strategizing session. We've got repairs to do, an oil cooler to install (we finally sold a heap of Opel GT parts last week), and we need to get seat time for our new never-been-on-track driver and for our went-off-twice-at-Arse-Sweat-and-got-us-parked-for-3.5-hours-on-Saturday driver, and of course to test the tinyvette. We think we can get everything done before Bonni's (TEAM-Racing.org) October 15 track event. We think. We have nearly all the parts we'll need, with two more spare trannys coming. We damaged two at Arse-sweat and new synchros are nearly impossible to find, except apparently in Russia and Poland.
Anyway, "we think" is maybe a bit better than Lemons-inspired optimism. We've had the car nearly completely apart before, so we've already broken all the bolts that were destined to break, and now we even know where all the leftover parts go.
October 15 will be a chance to test our repairs and "new" tranny. Thunderhill is a lot closer than Buttonwillow and Bonni's people are Lemons-friendly. We do hope to be able to get to Buttonwillow once before the race, probably for the NCRC event, assuming we don't use up what is left of the 40+ year old car before then.
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