The guy I had managing my Van Nuys facility was a German national and on his spare time hunted cars and shipped them back to Germany for good money. Old and new.

Your next "buyer" wouldn't have been named Helmut would he?

 

Yes it would have been, but I wan't going for the money - the friend I sold "Pete" to, introduced me to my current Wife and also to driving cars on course, specifically 911s...

I do envy my Wife in a way: to be a National Champion, be it in ping Pong or tiddly winks, or anything, is something... To have that over the others 3X national champion, is well, something I wish I could do... It takes complete focus (and a well, ahem, a well prepared car), to do. She rode rodeo in her younger years and comes from a championship family (Dad #1 @ Wimbledon doubles). Ice must run in your veins to ignore everything else and focus. and win. I was like in the top 10-ish Open class in the country -- nothing to write home about...

I can prep a 911 to win, but I can't drive it as well as my wife could -- back in the day....

Wish we lived closer, Jack - might even get out and cruise on a SLOW set of motorcycles...

Scott

 

Did he look like Robin Williams?

When I say like, just about anytime he and I were together getting food or going somewhere, people came up to him thinking he was Robin Williams.

 

Sold it to my friend, Jack - but it was advertised at Pebble Beach, next person in line was another, extremely fast driver (and his wife too) who rose to the top ranks of Porsche Club America (a voted position). Next guy was named Helmet and he, as I understood it, was from Germany...

Probably not the same guy, but you never know...

What about that slow bike tour?! We could stop at some unhealthy restaurants along the way....

Scott

 

He went up and down the coast, into AZ, CO, ......

Just wondering if we had that 6 degrees of separation thing going on.

The bike is down on the list. Although our grandson is spending his senior high school year in Italy, and he was hyper about going for a ride before he left. He had been driving his mother nuts wanting a motorcycle. Two wheels depends on vertigo.

 

We'll get you a dang trike (some of those are pretty cool) - and head off on a gastronomic adventure (did I say I like food??!)

Best,
Scott

 

Just wait a year..........Honda has you covered.

 

Thanks guys. We’re good.


FYI, when “vertigo” hits it’s not so much of a balance issue although that’s there too, it’s like looking out the side window seeing the same 10 feet over and over at 30mph. I go horizontal in this vid of examples, the last one.

Mine occurs in phases, once or twice a year, seems to be neck related. But when it’s prone to occur the wrong movement during a one to three month period can set it off. Last year May through July was an issue. It mostly occurs when in a horizontal position but can occur vertical too, although rare, depends how stiff my neck is. Going under a vehicle then gets real whacked out. Halls are good ‘cause you have the walls to bounce off. Taking a walk, quickly turning your head, going off a curb can be troublesome. I even stop driving. Motorcycle ain’t where you want to be, trike, stabilized or training wheels. The weight of a helmut doesn’t help.

Here’s the creepy video. And I’ve been through the neck rotation thing to settle out loose rocks in my head. It’s not that, it seems to a nerve response in my neck and having a Leviquin reaction in my tendons and ligaments making them weaker has made a once in 10 year occurance more routine.

 

Sorry your having troubles Jack , my wife had it really bad years ago , until we found a great chiropractor to work the nerves around , she’s been vertigo free for 2 years now, the most important for everybody is blockage , mri cat scan will find that , like it did with my father in law . Good luck my freind

 

Ok So I just could not resist.





Talk about thread drift.

 

So I did see this thing last night......

 

Introducing......the F-150 Super Duty......



Sorry I didn't get a picture. It was an F_150 with super duty mirrors.

 

Saw this gem yesterday ....

 

 

That above is genius advertising at best!



I saw this one yesterday.