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It is much easier to relate and care about fellow members when you know them by a name than it is by a silly handle like “Weirdstingplucker.” It is better to know the individual than to know an individual’s alter ego. Plus I like to be able to respond to someone by name. Just feels more personal.

Besides I did not read where full name be used as your user id. so I assume some. thing like mine is fine. “MichaelP”

if this is not making sence, I blame it on the flu

I am now using my real name. I hope you guys are satisfied now!

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Waddy

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Michael feel better bro!

Thanks,

Waddy formerly known as Hesh......

Mr. Thomson, I am truly satisfied.
But you'll always be Waddy to us.

JJ

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From Nacogdoches...the oldest town in Texas.

http://www.stephenkinnaird.com

Heh.....I inquired about the name change last year, but it was just before the software change and folks were too busy to deal with it - so I just created a new account and let my signature sort out the confusion.

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The member formerly known as erikbojerik....

That could be some serious distraction from guitar building!

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Jim Kirby
kirby@udel.edu

Jim Kirby has come out from under his horribly obfuscatory alias as jtkirby

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Jim Kirby
kirby@udel.edu

Yup. Ten story drop in less than a quarter mile. Without full race harness seatbelts you'd be glued to the inside top of your car...unless you drove a roadster! Then who knows where you'd be!

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Hank Mauel

Yes, Bruce, you have one of the COOLEST jobs around getting to blow around Laguna Seca on a regular basis. My first drop through that turn was in 1962. Back then if you got there REALLY early...like Oh-Dark-Thirty in the morn, you just might get a chance to drive the circuit. Well, three other chums from High School and I went down to a race in one fellows 58 VW bug. Up the back section leading up to the corkscrew 3 of us had to get out and walk...the poor VeeDub wouldn't make the grade with all of us in it!
Anyway, when we got up to the approach to the turn, we got back in and took that E ticket ride.

I always wondered how they paved that area. I can imagine the trucks coming up the back slope and dumping the asphalt, but getting a roller to compress it would be a suicide ride for the operator. And there's no way you could get a roller to go UP the corkscrew so it's got to be a one-way ride for each pass.
Now that idea of melting the humps by "cooking" is really trick. What did you b-b-q over all those coals? A coupe or a roadster?

The avatar shot was back in the '80's at a Steve Earl HMSA club event. That's before all the infield course modifications so you had those 3 long straights connected by the "kinks" from Start/Finish all the way around to the bridge. That's the highest speed I ever had the Elite up to. Just came out of old Turn 9 and camped out on the go pedal all the way around. Someone told me later that I was over 130 mph in the 1200cc engined Elite. Don't know if it was radar or a speed trap reading, but I know I had 8000+ rpm's on the clock at the bridge.

And you are correct about the 7! It is "barely" disguised from the formula car of the day. But it sure is fun. The engine in it now is a 1275cc BMC A motor (Spridget) that puts out about 80+ hp. In a 900 pound car that's more than enough to "move along spiritedly" and since you can corner at almost the same speed you were traveling in a straight line, well...WHAT FUN!

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Hank Mauel

Yes it is. On a nice spring or fall afternoon, after you have spent time bending an expensive piece of figured wood, a little blast out a country road does wonders for the soul...and blood pressure!
Almost worse is the swimming pool just outside the shop on a REAL hot Sacramento Valley summer day. I have been known to shed down to the skivvies and jump in. Sure cleans off all the sawdust and sweat!

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Hank Mauel

Agreed, nothing better for blowing off some steam than a run down the coast to Big Sur. Some great stretches of road there.
On Sunday mornings the bikes take over, the local CHP cut them some slack and they get to air out those crotch rockets.
Looks like fun but I'll stay belted in a car. Nearly as much fun and a bit safer. Nasty road though, just lost 3 kids over the edge heading down to Ventana. Not really kids, I guess, recent grads from college. That road deserves a lot of respect,
no guard rails and 850 feet straight down at Hurricane Point. They didn't have a clue how to get the car up the last time I heard.

You've got some great roads in your area as well. May have to take a quick run up to your area some time. Just getting
through the Sacramento traffic can be a pain though...

Best
Bruce

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Bruce Herrmann
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

Agreed. All bundled up, the top down, fog rolling in and the exhaust from a 3-liter Healey bouncing off the rock face where Hwy 1 was cut into the cliffs. Those were fun days.

Pat

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formerly known around here as burbank
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http://www.patfosterguitars.com

Soooo. When are you coming out of the closet? MichaelP is OK, Kind of like MichaelO, but MikeO'Melia is indeed more personal.

Mike

I never lived in a closet. I have never been fond of that term. I have never hid who I am.

I really don’t think Lance meant that you had to use your full proper name but rather use your first name, first name and an initial or full name if you wish. but not an anonymous handle. Just to make everyone happy.

Ohhhh, Michael Dale Payne, you have made me sooooo happy!

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Waddy

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Waddy bro give Michael a break will ya? At least he speeeled Dale correctly........