I have a good friend and race engine customer, Fred McConnell, he just relocated to Altoona earlier this year. We all plan to meet up for a race at Summitt Point in WV in Sept.

I been playing all day. Took a ride on my little motorcycle over to hot springs to check out a motorcycle rally. Way too dang hot there, in the 90s. I kept moving and did about 150 miles and back to the house. Took the midget for a drive down the highway and then in and around Hendersonville and saluda but not down the hill. Midget seemed to do fine with the electric fan coming on and off in traffic as it should do and no overheating, but I only went about 45 miles or so. Its dang 85 degrees outside right now and 78 in here in the house(no A/C but a window unit in the bedroom). If anybody wants to get cool they will have to climb past Brevard and hit the route up by the davidson river and sliding rock to the top of the hill where it should be nice and cool. When I get this colling problem all solved, it would be nice to organize a ride up to Mount Mitchell, they always have good A/C there.

Is 95 here Kim. Miss Agatha temp will not go above 180, her thermostat. So it is possable and is appropiate.

That said I would expect that at 65 on a long hill for the temp to rise but not more than 15 to 20 degrees and drop again quickly as soon as you top the hill.

Here's the motley crew posing for pics at the top of
Caesar's Head.
Fun little trip. 24 miles total there and back for yours truly.
Hap and Kim continued onward.
Sleepy's new Catered Ham is VERY nice. Some glitches still need sorting. The alt wasn't putting out today so he had to bust
it home before the tiny little battery gave it up for ghost.
That 4 seater Morgan was SWEET!
Kim made the climb in the Midget without overheating in his
beautiful Midget.
Hap was scooting away so fast in his hot rod MGB that he's out
of frame in the video.
All in all a fun little picnic. The tourists sure liked the LBCs.
Lots of people posed by them for pics while we ate our lunch.
I should have some edited video on Youtube in a few days.

Just back from the ride. What a blast, trying to keep up with hap was hard work
Nice to meet everyone and we must do this again soon. Man, was it hot. Beautiful cars. Loved that 7 and never seen a Morgan like that before. Would love a ride in one of those rear seats just to see what it feels like

And how was the temp situation?

Here is a short video from today's ride up Caesar's Head.
Sorry about not having Kim and Hap in the thing. Cars
got in between from the start and those two got away from
us quickly.
This is a short clip so it wouldn't take ALL day to upload.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92Jyhs-NIM4

It did ok for the way I was driving for sure, but it started to get up there towards the end. Luckily it was all down hill from there.

I had great time, think I ended up putting 160 miles on the BGT yesterday, Kim and I went a good bit further than the rest of the group. They were tons of lolly-gaggers out there yesterday, but we did get a few clean runs, needless to say I probaby made a few enemies along the way, cause ole Hap will flat-arse double yellow line pass you, if you're asleep at the wheel or poking, and I don't need alot of real estate to go for a pass . Most Harley riders drive me nuts, riding talent is not required on those things when you buy one, thats for sure. I often think, wouldn't it be cool to mount machine guns on the front of my GT, that would clear the road

Alan's Cat is one cool machine. Dang it I wish one of us had gotten a picture of the Morgan with all 4 passengers aboard, that was cool.

I would like to publicly apologize to Kim, for calling him Chris in this post, and probably before in other post, I got him confused with another poster here, but now we've tore the mountian roads up together, I'll never confuse his name again, Kim it was fun running the mountains with you.

Days like yesterday is why I got another road sport car, to get out there in the mountains and backroads, look at all the cool stuff and run the curvey roads, I'll take a day like yesterday over a dozen car shows anyday. Working on thes cars is cool, showing them is cool, but nothing matches the fun of driving them. What we did yesterday is exactly what I did in my youth, hit the backroads and just enjoyed the fun of driving a sport car.

OK, now for the funny part of yesterday. Week before last I guess I had a senior moment, in short I pumped 24 gallons of gasoline into my almost empty tank of my F350 diesel truck, needless to say they don't run to great on gasoline . I syphoned 24 gallons back out of the F350, so they couldn't have been much diesel in the gas. Well, anyway being the cheap you-know-what I am, I decided I give it a try in the BGT, while the car ran good all day, on deacceleration it would give out a puff of smoke, and the fumes smelled alot like someone burning a charcoal grill, I'm down to almost a 1/4 tank now, and have 16 more gallons of this stuff in containers, I probably give away.

Amen, Brother Hap. You are preaching to the choir!

Lawn mower fuel.

Nah, Hap. Lets burn it out and have some fun. We could go hwy11 over to hwy 9 and then up through lake lure and bat cave then the really curvy part of HWY9 from bat cave over to Black mnt. Or old 74 from lake lure up too ashville through the hickory nut gorge and all that is fun too, except for going through chimney rock that is pretty slow. Maybe you got some place down that way we could ride, I am game for it, Just carring a jug of water and top her off every once in a while. Maybe you could drive mine and see what a 1275 with 5 speed and 3:55 gear feels like. 60mph is around 2700 rpms.

Hey Kim a new trip sounds great. I'm game for a longer drive...the wife is even game.
#11 to #133 into Cashiers is nice and curvy.
#11 to #178 going past Sugar Likker road ain't bad.( love that name)
Stretches of #64 in N.C. are nice too. There is a waterfall you can drive right to up there. Us old off roaders call it the LONG road to Murphy. Once we met a Bus going the other way when
we had a FJ40 on a trailer and the road was so narrow we both had to stop and get out spotters to pass. The bus had to fold
in mirrors and we had a trailer wheel scrubbing a small rock wall along the drop off.
The drive up to Clayton into Hiawasse is a great drive.
Sense a theme? Hill climbs and tight turns just do it for me.
Anywho...just pick a date and any spot and we are game.

Edit: just looking at some goggle maps. #11 to #130 to #64 to #28 looks neat.

That sounds fine. This coming weekend is the 4th of July weekend, so I figure most people have plans already for that one. I really don't other than my wife usually works weekends but is off the day of the 4th but the 3rd and 5th she works so I am free to do whatever.

Yeah, I understand I have honey-dews at the house this weekend, and since I never do anything around the house, I guess I better be good, but after that I'm game. Hopefully all the idiots and Harley riders get it out of thier system this coming weekend and stay close to the biker bars for the rest of the summer

Howdy Gents,

I`ve been watching your posts and just can`t wait to get down there!

"IS IT AUG 1ST YET"!!

I believe I may have a problem keeping up with you people. My "Stock" 948 puts out a whole, Whopping 43hp when its "Dyno Tuned"!!

Hap; You may have to do something to my B/E so I can keep up with the pace.

See Y`All Soon,

Russ

Russ, be careful what you wish for August arew brutal here, it get about 10 degrees cooler in the mountians, but it get real hot here, and humid, it takes some getting used to.

Oh as for the 948, I know a guy down this way that can get you a hot rod 1275 going

http://videos.streetfire.net/video/188-Top-Gear-Caterham-RS3_205201.htm
They didn't show the final result of this video, but the Caterham was much faster than that big stainless bath tub he drove after and also had the 4th fastest Top Gear track time beating out the Pagani Zonda, Bugatti Veyron, and many more very very expensive cars.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7i43JHHgvo

The old DYI Caterham, fun stuff!

August in South Cackalacky = "Hotter than a goat in
a pepper patch".
Got that one from an apron we bought for a friend at Goats on the Roof at the Poker Run Hap took us on.
Cool place. Great Bon Bons. Their Bermuda onion cheese was great on some burgers this evening. Yummy!
I think Lynn and I are going up #130 to Cashiers on Thursday morning in Miss B. Maybe stop at Whitewater Falls.
Do some antique'n and a nice lunch.
Leave out about 10:00 a.m. or so before the heat builds.
Roads shouldn't be full of holiday traffic then.