The BritishV8 Pub

Thanks for the well wishes Carl -- Glad you got to go -- hope it didn't cause too much trouble with whichever boss was keeping you from going earlier!

My 2nd surgery seems to have gone better than the 1st & seems like I'm on the mend now. Still lots of pain, but the meds are plenty strong :).

I'm really bummed that I missed it this year but glad to hear next year is in Townsend. That's the 1st meet I went to when I was just starting the project -- so it'll be full circle!

Dale, I feel for you! Sounds from above info it could have been avoided too -- I'm sure that hurts as much as the situation itself!! -Hope your recovery -- personal & car both go quickly. Not that any companies cover a track incident, this got me re-checking into coverage!

Look forward to seeing everyone in May. Who's coordinating?

The last day of the event went well. We started with a visit to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway's Museum. Fifty-nine of our folks enjoyed this display of vintage race cars and memorabilia.

We then headed over to Prototype Developments where we were treated to a great display of race cars and Lotus Super-7 clones. A great cookout of burgers and brats was also provided by the owner of the shoppe.

Saturday afternoon found us back at the Clarion for tech sessions in the parking lot. Dave Craddock, Pete Mantell, Ted Lathrop, Steve Carrick, Max Fulton, and Dan Masters filled our heads with information about V6 and V8 conversions.

Saturday evening was out banquet and auction. We had a great time....Mike Maloney and Scott Costanza were my targets for the evening's auction. I even got Scott to bid against himself for one item. We raised over $1700 in the auction.

We headed out to the parking lot after our banquet where we continued to kick tyres and swap lies...and consumed the remaining potables in our coolers. It was a late night; Merv Hagen, Curtis Jacobsen, Ted Lathrop, Tim Duhamel, Mike Maloney, Carl Floyd, Mike Moor, and I were among the "last @#$%& standing"...I got to bed about 3:30am.

I got out to the parking lot about 8:30am this morning so I could say "adieu" to those heading home. A few folks stayed over and headed back to the IMS to do a "behind the scenes tour of the track facility.

BritishV8 was a complete success in my book. Nyuck-nyuck-nyuck!

See you in Townsend, Tennessee for BritishV8 2011, hosted by Dan Masters.




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Just arrived home after a somewhat eventful return ride from Indy. Seems the alternator crapped out during the ride home and the car was running on battery power until Jackson, Mi. where the engine quit along I-94.- the car then got flatbedded 75 miles to Jack Renaud's house in Dearborn. A visit to to a couple of auto parts stores for a replacement alternator were fruitless so the battery was charged for a few hours in the hopes of making it across the border and the 60 miles back home.....and it made it!
My incident pales in comparison to what Dale went through. Having witnessed his accident, I am still marvelling at the fact that damage effects could have been a lot worse.....



Photo taken just after the spinout.........

Curtis how do I attach a a .mov vidio of BADASS, Excuse me RoadMaster?
Not much but better then nothing.

Merv

Hi Merv. The message board software isn't set up to display a movie unless it's hosted externally (e.g. youtube or vimeo). Check the message list page and you should find a "sticky" message there which includes instructions for how to embed a youtube movie inside a message posting.

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What a GREAT meet!

I got home safely last night about 7:30 (mountain time). I took a northern route, through Peoria, up to Davenport IA and then I-80 across Iowa and Nebraska as recommended by the Garmin GPS I borrowed. It says the distance was 1133.9 miles (one way). About 17 hours drive time...

Only one snafu: my battery needed a jump start Sunday morning and another after I stopped for lunch at Danville Illinois, so I dropped into an Advance Auto and bought a new one. The old battery was date-coded "December 1999" - so I guess I got my money's worth out of that one! After that, the trip was uneventful. Ironically, I needed to jump start my Honda with my MG when I got home because it was blocking entry to my garage. (I had left a dome light burning.)

Looks like I took about 800 photos before I dropped and broke my camera - I haven't sorted them yet - the camera's motorized zoom and focus features are jammed and I think a gear tooth is busted. Ken and Katie kindly lent me their camera, so I've could capture about fifty additional photos from Saturday afternoon.

If I had it to do over, I'd plan on arriving at the meet a day early and staying one day late. I used to take a lot of business trips to Indy and I know it's a GREAT city to visit, but I've never had enough time there. I could have enjoyed several days in the Indy 500 museum, so only spending a couple hours there just teased my appetite for more. I'll just have to go back!

I had a wild ride over to Prototype Developments in Curtis' race car and a wilder one back to the hotel for the tech sessions'
great fun tho !

Glad everyone seems to have made it home ok. I am with you Graham, Dale was very lucky to get away with the injuries he did, I saw it too and was very worried about him. Your picture makes it look a little better than the one I got, but then I may have been a little tottery with the camera in the optical zoom mode :). It was great to meet everyone and put the faces to the names.

Michelle, how did I not meet you? I thought I spoke to nearly everyone, but I did miss you. Maybe in Townsend? I hoped to see your car and also Stephanie's, but somehow I missed them. Maybe blinded by G.D.? We did keep a LOW Profile and did not participate in the Parking Lot activities at nite.

Kelly, I didn't get mine done in time. We were the ones in the black 911. I know I talked to someone over by your car while we were waiting for the track time to start. We were heading back over to our car I think when you were heading back over to yours. As for the Parking Lot activities, I didn't participate much in those either except some during the daytime. I didn't see Stef or Mike stop by, I was actually curious if they made it or not. I am a wimp, had to go in out of the heat and sun in order to avoid the nasty headaches they cause me. And for some reason every time i went inside I fell asleep. But I did get to meet a lot of the gang from here and it was nice to do so.

Stef and Mike were unable to make BritishV8 2010.

Dale, I'm not that far from you either, (Florence) so let me know if you need any help also. Between Mike and me maybe we can help speed things along a bit.

Now this is second hand information so you'd need to go to the source, but if I recall correctly I believe Les told me that he stopped and the corner worker thought he had blown an oil line. Les told him it was a radiator hose and walked back up the track to confirm that it was coolant. That should have been time to put out the yellow. I sure as heck would buck at paying any track damages at the least.

JB

Dale,

Post up parts that you need for your rebuild. I might be able to help you out with spares that I have.

Calvin

Thanks for the offers of help. It will be a couple of weeks until I tear into it and work out a plan. I will post parts up once I know.

dale

Rat Rod Jr. performed well on it's maiden road trip. Ten days and 4000 miles on secondary (or even smaller) roads, and the mostly 100 degree heat put it to the test. The electric fuel pump started fluttering when I had to slow for traffic -- may be the alcohol in the fuel was part of it but okay once on the way.

I find that gearheads and Brit cars don't usually mix, that was "soi-tainly" not the case at this meet. Moe, Larry and Curly -
good job! Met alot of nice people and saw alot of nice cars. See you at Townsend next year.

(ps. Rat Rod Sr., is a '54 Chevy Cab on an Eldorado frame.)

Glad you enjoyed yourself, Steve....we find that **most** conversionists do!

Hope that you will try to make it to Townsend, TN next year to experience the Smokies!

"I find that gearheads and Brit cars don't usually mix, that was "soi-tainly" not the case at this meet."

Bunch o' gearheads in this group! ;)

Well, I finally made it home early this morning from Indy via Chicago, Winnipeg, Manitoba. Buffalo Point (Lake of the Woods), Manitoba, Toronto, Ontario, Moncton, New Brunswick and to home inFredericton.

Had a great time at Indy, met some new folks and renewed acquaintances with some old folks :~) I'm certainly planning on driving to TN next spring! Sunday Richard, Todd and I got to do the tour of Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Really worth the time..................thanks for the suggestion Rick.

Spent a couple of days with work at a resort at Buffalo Point and some time fishing with friends. Even caught a few fish, walleye and northern pike. Good to be home but already thinking about the meet next year.
Phil Ossinger

Dinner at the Union Jack Pub

I'm making some progress sorting snapshots now. I don't usually have much luck (or skill) photographing people, but I'm proud of how these pics (below) came out. What a nice evening! These will eventually get pasted-up into an "article" and captioned with peoples names. In the meantime, enjoy!































Incidentally, I've also started adding some new photos from the meet to the car galleries. Have a look!

Thanks Curtis, great job. Fond memories, Talley Ho!

Great pics Curtis!