ERA visit this Wednesday

[Jim Holden]

Now Guys:

So, I had to go up and deal with Mini Mafia (a/k/a The Wizard) on my own. You all ducked out on me.

After shoving "Mad Max" (the Mustang "R" - for replica race) into the R&D shop (Ted had pulled most of the other cars out, so Jose, I can report that your GT does still run and it has wheels and tires at all four corners) we went to lunch. My nephew and a cousin (who has a car on order and is agonizing over paint choice) joined in the fun. (Every time I go to lunch with Peter, I always come away with the sense of having watched a shark feeding frenzy). After lunch we drove over to Bristol to look at two "Legend" race cars for sale. Now, Peter already has purchased one for his son, but these were ostensibly for spares and a "guest driver" to be named later. Speaking to him this morning, he seems to have come to his senses and backed away from more of this...

Then we stopped at the Farmington model airplane field to watch a couple of remote control planes zoom around followed by dinner at the "up scale" Chinese (it's in a converted I-Hop) restaurant.

Just another average Saturday up in the Emerald City of New Britain.

Jim

PS: I did see the "missing #745", now finally (and sefely) back from Tony's paint shop. It looks gorgeous and there is only a faint lingering smell of dried deer jerky that will soon pass off... I'm sure.

[JWheaton]

Jim,

Sounds like a good full day in the fields of Ct.

Do you know when you are planning to go up again?

[Jim Holden]

JW:

Best guess is two weeks. If I don't spend a weekend working around the house on all those unfinished chores, the Village code Enforcement Officer will be stopping by to see if anyone still lives at the end of Red Neck Lane.

Oh, I should have mentioned that Ted had just bolted a 427 w/Weber setup into a black GTMKII up at the R&D and a medium blue MKI was going together next to it. What a setup! Always things to see. My cousin is now all hot for one of those... I did inform him that he was looking at about 2 and 1/2 to 3 times the entry fee for the MKII/Weber setup.

Send me an e-mail at jholden@bestweb.net and I will send you a picture of my FIA and Mad Max...

Jim