saturday night music thread

[Racer X]

22 minutes ago, siteunseen said:

I'll tell you Mr Racer, you're really digging deep into our forum. I got a LIKE from 2017! I appreciate that even though I know you're bored and quarantined but hats off to you for reading all the old stuff. I read as much as I can on here because these cars are close to my heart. My Dad used to take my keys away every time I looked at him wrong. Then I turned 17 and bought a '76 for $1,000 and put it in my Mom's name (they divorced when I was a baby) and gave him the keys to my Camaro and told him to shove them up his arse. One of the best things I ever did! He respected me a lot more after that plus I got bit by the Zeeee. Hang in there, Ms Racer will be home in......another month. 

Some of those threads are very interesting, and informative. Plus, I haven't turned a wrench on a Z since I parked the race car around 2009. I see a new way of approaching the various challenges of working on cars nearly 50 years old. Some neat insight to updating the fuel and ignition systems too. 

There has been a lot of change in the Z scene, and I've discovered I may be sitting on a small fortune in early Z cars. Of course Mrs. Racer 2.0 thinks I should capitalize on that and clean the place up some.

Maybe I should trade her in. (jk)

I'm looking forward to getting the brown Z driveable again, and then the others . . . . . . . . . stay tuned.

 

Love the SCOTS, got YouTube playing a set of them right now. A guy I worked with years ago is from Roanoke, Virginia, and he turned me on to them, and some of the other Southern bands.

Great stuff.

 

Edited November 19, 2020 by Racer X

[Racer X]

We all have one of these guys in our neighborhood.

 

 

Fortunately for me I have 6 acres on a one lane private gravel road, and my driveway is another 800 feet longer to the house. The toxic trash stench is faint, and I can see the guy comin' soon enough to get the shotgun ready.

 

Edited November 19, 2020 by Racer X
Wrong tune, eh?

[Racer X]

8 minutes ago, Racer X said:

We all have one of these guys in our neighborhood.

 

 

Fortunately for me I have 6 acres on a one lane private gravel road, and my driveway is another 800 feet longer to the house. The toxic trash stench is faint, and I can see the guy comin' soon enough to get the shotgun ready.

 

Darn thing posted the wrong tune. I edited three time, and it still puts the wrong song in the post. Let me try this.

Remove the song from the post and save it.

Quote the post and insert the correct tune.

Maybe.

 

 

[Racer X]

I think the neighbor is messin' with me.

[Racer X]

One more time.

I win.

[siteunseen]

You're a lucky man! Err...a hard worker. Nonetheless I'm jealous! 6 acres is a whole neighborhood where I live. Keep on keeping on!

Oh about let's see a picture of that brown Z? I liked the cat with the nuts stuck all over it, didn't look like he did though.

 

[Racer X]

38 minutes ago, siteunseen said:

You're a lucky man! Err...a hard worker. Nonetheless I'm jealous! 6 acres is a whole neighborhood where I live. Keep on keeping on!

Oh about let's see a picture of that brown Z? I liked the cat with the nuts stuck all over it, didn't look like he did though.

 

I've posted the Z elsewhere here, a picture of it with the race Z from a long time ago in my introductory post way back when, and most recently when I was in the first quarantine and I pulled it out of the back corner of the shop I started a build thread, and posted in the what the hell did I do today thread.

By the way, you live close to this:

Talladega Banking At 155mph by Racer, on Flickr

 

Taken by yours truly, riding with Jeffery Earnhardt at 155.

I was there with the Guacamole Express when I drove big trucks. It was right after the tornado ripped through Birmingham, and I was camped out at the nearby truckstop resetting my hours, so I bobtailed over to the speedway. The lady at the museum and hall of fame said I could take my car out on the track for a donation to the tornado victims. My truck wouldn't fit through the tunnel, so I got the ride in the Camaro pace car with the Earnhardt grandson.

Jeffery Earnhardt by Racer, on Flickr

 

 

Pretty cool, eh?

 

Edited November 19, 2020 by Racer X

[siteunseen]

I've spent a lot of time at that track. My Dad carried me to the time trials on Friday, skipping school. When I got my license he could drink some beers and let me be the designated driver. That was funny! 

I raced at the motorcycle track down there we called Little Tally. It was the w.e.r.a series. I ran a gsxr 750 and won a couple but the crack dealers won mostly. More money, better bikes.

I've done the ride around twice and it was like $100 each time. It amazed me how steep those turns are going in. Some back up driver with a passenger's seat in the car about 160, 175mph. 

When I was younger the infield was wild as hell. Unbelievable what they used to do inside. Dunebuggys, falling down drunks were everywhere. Amazing what a lawsuit can change. Those were the 200mph and over days. Bill Elliott was the king then.

 

[Racer X]

Another Saturday night.

 

 

[Racer X]

 

[Racer X]

Saturday night.

On a Sunday.

What a concept.

I feel like I am retired.

 

[Racer X]

Don't have to tell me, I live on the river. And I know which way it flows. It flows that way.