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Well we didn't make it for test n tune. Seems like something always keeps from leaving when we want to. But we are now on our way for the 450 mile trip. Left home about 6:45 this morning. Should get there at least by 5, in time to park and tech.

I will update after we get there. Coming thru Louisville there didn't seem to be too much hurricane damage on the route we took. Looks like it is going to be crazy there this weekend with the Ryder Cup there.

More later.
Patsy

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Patsy -- Glad you and Larry could make it as I couldn't ---- looking forward to your reports ...........

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Well we still aren't there. Got to about Carrollton, KY (between Louisville and Cincinnati) and the oil pressure idiot light starts yelling at us. So we turned around and went back to Louisville to Whayne Supply ( the CAT dealer) since he knows and works for those guys some times. So now they are going to check it out. Better safe than sorry.

I see on the schedule that they are parking til 11 tonight, so hopefully we will be there by then.
Wish us luck!
Patsy

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I just got off the phone with Larry and he thinks they will be on the road about 12:00 AM. So with that being said we are going to fill in for Patsy for a short time. We made the track today aout 2:30 this afternoon,and it was a beautiful day. We are pitted by Terry Nagel, Ben Wenzel,Gary Tompa and Denny Ford. Denny had to go into Columbus to get a fuel presure regulator this afternoon.Tomorrow looks to be pretty good as far as weather goes. The weather channel has the barometer at 30.27 and steady, and the forcast looks great. I don't see Ton Sheehan's name on the entry list but he is often here and I would like to get educated on posting pictures like he has in the past. They were great.
Enjoy the evening and get ready to run, fast I hope!

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Well, here we are live from Louisville, Ky from the truckers lounge at the CAT dealer. We had an o-ring seal on the injector split and leaked diesel fuel into the oil. They are working on it and hopefully we will be out of here in a couple of more hours.

We can't be in our motorhome while they are working on it, but Larry went and rescued our laptop. We are going to order pizza an hope to be out in a while.

More later.
Patsy

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Patsy Marissa wants to know if she needs to bring a "Good" bottle of wine? She has already packed a cheap bottle with me but says she has some good stuff if needed?? ;) I'm hooked up & ready to go. I'm going to leave about 6:am should be their about 8:am ...Marissa is coming up in the evening. OH & she has the stuff for chilli! :)

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Well we finally made it here about 1:30 am. Bright and early at 7, they were pulling us in and parking. By 7;30 we were parked and eating breakfast. Talk about challenging--taking a shower with Larry yelling back and saying we're moving now. Oh well, needless to say I took a short shower trying to hang on. We are about ready to tech and should not have any trouble making the first call at 10.

Greg, tell Marissa I like the cheap wine, too. I am making chili tonight, so all are invited.

More later.
Patsy

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We had 60 stockers 1st round. Judy McCormack is #1. Denny Ford and Dave Edwards had trouble. Jerry Bennett broke a transmission shaft ( I think). He is borrowing Larry's spare Pro-trans and is trying to get ready for the next run. We get 2 today. Lots of cars more than a second under.

More later.
Patsy

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Jerry got his car fixed, so he should be able to make the clean-up run. Bill Owen has come in this afternoon, also. Kevin Helms is driving Brad McFarland's Corvette. He is here with the hemi car, too.
Velde's car doesn't seem to be going very well.
It is pretty slow here for 2100'. We have slowed way down.

Well more later.
I am going to get things ready to fix chili.

Patsy

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Well, got everything set up ready to cook chili and guess what--I put in an empty tank of propane. Then we thought there was going to be a Jegs cookout, so we decided to do chili tomorrow. Then now Jegs is having a band tonight but not any food (whoopee!!). So anyway Mike and Janice Fuller are going to get us another tank of gas tonight and we are cooking chili tomorrow. So we had hot dogs tonight with Fred and Barb Suiter.

So Jerry Bennett made the last run and spun a bearing, so he is out for the weekend. Fred Suiter 2-stepped thru the lights on his 2nd run so he didn't get a time. We are slow and don't know why. Judy McCormack's family is mad because she went too fast. Don't know why Darrell Steiger was DQ'd. But his is not a 73 Duster. It is sublime green Dart. Real pretty.

If you see Rick Winchester. ask him how he got the cut on his forehead. (It had something to do with bending over to get another beer last night over at Greg Hill's).

Having a great time here as usual. Janice Fuller and I rode around in the golf cart this afternoon with a little drink in hand and saw a few racers.

We run at 8 in the morning, then class at around 11.

The weather is absolutely wonderful. Sunny and warm, down to about 50 tonight.

So more tomorrow.
Patsy