more Klassik pics

Some more pics from the swap meet -- part of the very few German exotics there ... Merc was $5495 while 944 was $2k but had no spark, as well as bubbling etc

 For the hard core gamers ... pre xbox

 

Some british iron for $1400 - $1700

 

Wooden minilites for sale

 Mark Morrissey (sleeps with steering wheels) has to rename his car from 911R to 911M as in 911 Moo !!! nice wheek to compliment his car !!!

 

Der Fall Klassik pics

Some pics from the trip ... frosty morning kickoff at 7am

Eric (right) and Lewis, getting prepped

 

 Mark and Paul (background)

 

The get-together at the Vernon Diner

Mark and Lewis kidding around about the distance to Paul's door, while Judy looks on.

While queuing to get into the swapmeet, traffic was a little slow, allowing me the time to snap this shot of a house in the country, and its cute chimney

The swap meet, a smorgasbord of the exotic domestic parts that bordered on the sublime and even the ridiculous at times

Der Fall Klassik 2009

Saturday last, was the annual "Der Fall Klassik 2009" - a jaunt through the backroads of NE CT and Southern MA. The aim was to gather local enthusiasts from the tri-state area as well as the northeast, and unite them at a central location .. hence the meeting being in NE CT, in Vernon (near Hartford, CT to be precise). Jim Lonsdale organized the roads, with Paul Ripley managing the afternoon run up to Quabbin Reservoir (which feeds Boston). Here is some video of the trip

I'm a lumberjack and I'm ok ...

I managed to convince my friend and neighbour, Roy, to finally cut down a dead tree near our house. Roy is the chainsaw wielding warrior shown below.

 As you can see, he's having great craic alltogether

I am in a more pensive mood ... how did that ditty go?

He cuts down trees. He skips and jumps. He likes to press wild flowers. He puts on women's clothing And hangs around in bars?! He's a lumberjack, and he's okay. He sleeps all night and he works all day.

Enough silliness .... we had a good time, and the tree is down. I was telling my Dad, and of course he is an old hand at that (the tree cutting and not the wild flower pressing). Listen, he says,

first you cut 'em down

then you cut em up

He thought he'd get some more logs out of it, as the pic shows, dating from 1984.

And below is the bench/horse saw that they used to cut up the wood. This is my Dad looking suspiciously like myself. Now I know where he got his rugged good looks from  .... his son ;-)

cue the music .... "i fought the saw and the saw won ... "

Porsche content - rather unexpectedly

Rented out a film recently, based upon the pedigree of the directors (Volker Schlondorff and Margarethe von Trotte). The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum. 1975. An attack on the abuse of power and yellow journalism. Rather prescient really. And then, my darling wife Nikki, says to me ... (she started to watch it ahead of me) "I know why you got this film .... its a porsche movie" ... and I protested my innocence ... as the movie had a good rep (and is very good as well --- worth checking out) but .... upon seeing the beginning .... I could not argue ;-)
What a nice surprise to see a 73 targa in irish green, with an RS front bumper and cibie hoodlights ... as driven by Jurgen Prochnow.

driving in the gunks ...

We also found time to drive through the gunks ... no navigator for me this time; i was playing all three roles myself --- driver navigator cameraman .... a tall order for even the most accomplished .... i guess doing 2 out of three well, ain't bad ;-)

Note the 5mph suggested speed through the corner !!!

the Gunks .... some video ... beautiful area

While up in the gunks, we went to Cragmoor ... great view of the area with Ellenville below you ...

Catskills/Orange County/West Point run Sep 14th 2009, the third !!!

Here are some pics of the other sights that we saw during the day! Is it a bird? Is it a hawk? No ... lots of hangliders above Ellenville. This area attracts hang gliders from all over the country.

Catskills/Orange County/West Point run Sep 14th 2009 redux

The local countryside ... in this case the Hudson river in the background

 

Here, you will see an area frequented by hikers, near Bear Mountain. 

 

Next you will see the countryside around Ellenville, NY. This was taken at Cragmoor, well worth a visit by the way.

Catskills/Orange County/West Point run Sep 14th 2009

I met up with Ron today, and we went all over Orange county, and the Catskills ... and barely noticed time passing. We had a nice lunch at the Brauhaus, which is located at the intersection of Rt 44/55/299.

 

Above, you see Ron with his beautiful "Zambesi Green" 73 coupe.

Next we see Ron's car again below ...

Last, is my car ... trying to get my stance correct ... (the color of my car is "Grey Beige")

 

Glynn's Blog

My buddy, John Glynn, the accomplished and erudite motoring journalist, has his own blog located here ... http://www.johndglynn.com
You'll find plenty of content related to subjects that we all love, all recounted in a witty and loquacious seeming fashion, by John. He also sells t-shirts amongst other things, and I purchased one. What a t-shirt! Here is John himself doing double duty as model and copy editor

 

Not wanting to let John starve to death, I figured that I should promote his fine product, the Tissot RSR shirt, and hopefully reach the multitude of vintage racing porsche fans out there. Here goes my homage to the humble t-shirt

But John, a simple homage would not be correct without adding to the triptych (we need three for that at the very least). So here goes ... after John plus grin plus fruit bowl plus flowers plus pictures, and myself plus grin plus fruit bowl plus flowers plus picture, comes myself plus grin plus fruit bowl plus flowers plus picture plus cat (Desdemona)

Plus the cat tries to escape ...

 

Oh happy days !!!

Next step is for someone to add a prop while modeling the t-shirt? 

Actual hill climbing, part the first

Here is the footage of the actual hill climb, or the starting grid. Enough of the tomfoolery, I hear ye say ...

Equinox - the driver's driver

An homage to a driver's driver .... Jim G, who was the subject of our video earlier, was also outfitting himself in white RSR over the weekend, and he looked very good in the drivers seat !!

Equinox, racing in anger 2

pics of the front of the car.
what are 3 things protruding from aluminum, below windshield, on top right of pic? Thanks to Joe Gawlik, who reminded me that they are the tops to the hydraulic reservoirs (2 for the brake master cylinders and 1 for the clutch, remember this has a hydraulic clutch).
Steve showing us the oil tank area
Oil tank filler
apologies for low light grainy shots, I had my camera, the Ricoh Caplio R4, but showing its age in certain scenario's (of course bad workman blames his tools:-). If only I had Nikki's LX3 ... "my kingdom, my kingdom, .... for an LX3"
ready to rock n'roll

Equinox -- the racing in anger part

some more pics of that RSR type race car
engine moved forward a few inches ... he keeps fan belt a bit loosefront coolin area
tach ...
shot of cooling area up front again
engine shot

The video we have all been waiting for ...
the Equinox Hill Climb was off and running, but things were running a little behind time.
Time for local RGruppe chaptermeister, Jim Garfield to take over and co-ordinate ..
and co-ordinate he did >:D
Near the end, there is a Nascar fan enquiring if Dale Earnhardt Jr is running ...

Equinox part 5 - video

Some grainy non-HD video of the bauer car ... flip HD camera had run out of juice, hence using regular digital camera, so as not to miss the magic

Equinox part 4

same car with hills in background - who says we are not interested in pretty scenery?Joe Gawlik's gorgeous 2002

Equinox part 3

Jens pointing out something very trick, I am sure - we are all enrapturedJens/Heidi lid badge .. cool
Joe's car ... beautiful color, very rich
Paul managed to let owner try out vintage seats, or so he said
Steve Bauer car