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Well I just attended my 30 year high school reunion this past weekend. Figured sense I was traveling stag this time I didn’t have to worry about anybody wanting to haul five tons of luggage for just an overnighter, it was a perfect opportunity for me to drive one of my old cars.
Flipping a coin - my 1978 Porsche 928 won over the 78B for the 240 mile round trip trek.
All & all I enjoyed the High School reunion (Class of 77) got to meet a lot of old friends as well as catching up & reminiscing with a few of my classmates. But without dissing my classmates - I found it rather humorous that “Who are all these old folks anyway?” seemed to be the running theme of the evening. Other than that is was all about who is or isn’t still married anymore, who’s bald, who’s got a beer gut, how many kids still living at home and what gals needed to lay off the chocolates about 8-10 years ago. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smirk.gif
That said I won’t bore you with anymore of the reunion details other than to say that at almost 30 years my 78 Shark & MGB are both holding up much better than most of my former classmates are.
Anyway the best part of the whole thing was of course the drive…
The drive up Saturday morning wasn’t the greatest. I was surprised to find heavy traffic for a weekend going north from San Diego to the Los Angeles area. But the one thing I learned is that unlike my little MGB the 928 doesn’t require as much shifting or clutch manipulation in heavy traffic. While the MG has a much lighter clutch than the Porsche, in bumper to bumper traffic you are constantly engaging & disengaging the clutch and selecting different gears with the MGB. Whereas with the 928 you can utilize second gear for most of the same 0 to 30 mph stop & go traffic. Bout the only time I fully engaged the clutch is when I come to a complete stop. If I had to guess I would have better than doubled the amount of shifts if the MG won that coin toss the other morning.
The trip home Sunday morning was a totally different situation. I started home just before 8AM and traffic was pretty light. This allowed me to cruise between 80 & 90 mph without any real difficulty. But when I approched traffic a simple shift into fourth allowed me to scoot around the slower cars without any difficulties. Nothing outrageous mind you regarding speed, but I never really pushed the car and just enjoyed the drive back down the coast to San Diego. Bout the only thing I found somewhat annoying was having to keep an eye out for entering the triple digits. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/devilgrin.gif
Flipping a coin - my 1978 Porsche 928 won over the 78B for the 240 mile round trip trek.
All & all I enjoyed the High School reunion (Class of 77) got to meet a lot of old friends as well as catching up & reminiscing with a few of my classmates. But without dissing my classmates - I found it rather humorous that “Who are all these old folks anyway?” seemed to be the running theme of the evening. Other than that is was all about who is or isn’t still married anymore, who’s bald, who’s got a beer gut, how many kids still living at home and what gals needed to lay off the chocolates about 8-10 years ago. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smirk.gif
That said I won’t bore you with anymore of the reunion details other than to say that at almost 30 years my 78 Shark & MGB are both holding up much better than most of my former classmates are.
Anyway the best part of the whole thing was of course the drive…
The drive up Saturday morning wasn’t the greatest. I was surprised to find heavy traffic for a weekend going north from San Diego to the Los Angeles area. But the one thing I learned is that unlike my little MGB the 928 doesn’t require as much shifting or clutch manipulation in heavy traffic. While the MG has a much lighter clutch than the Porsche, in bumper to bumper traffic you are constantly engaging & disengaging the clutch and selecting different gears with the MGB. Whereas with the 928 you can utilize second gear for most of the same 0 to 30 mph stop & go traffic. Bout the only time I fully engaged the clutch is when I come to a complete stop. If I had to guess I would have better than doubled the amount of shifts if the MG won that coin toss the other morning.
The trip home Sunday morning was a totally different situation. I started home just before 8AM and traffic was pretty light. This allowed me to cruise between 80 & 90 mph without any real difficulty. But when I approched traffic a simple shift into fourth allowed me to scoot around the slower cars without any difficulties. Nothing outrageous mind you regarding speed, but I never really pushed the car and just enjoyed the drive back down the coast to San Diego. Bout the only thing I found somewhat annoying was having to keep an eye out for entering the triple digits. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/devilgrin.gif
