Michael Beard, when you have time...........

[Michael Beard]

Truth be known, I did in fact stuff my face at the Imperial Palace (multiple times), but Oritz had a gun to my head the whole time. Or maybe it was a pair of tongs. Hard to tell through the haze of those smoky ribs....

Billy's got me figured out. After the Combo in the Hills, I hit Beaver Springs on Sunday. The Turismo died while warming it up on top end in the morning. Turns out the rotor got a pinhole in it. Dad and I scour three parts stores before we found one in stock... which turns out that despite the parts store computer acknowledging that it's a 2.2L, the part numbers listed are actually for the 1.8L, so we get back to the track to realize we've got the wrong parts. Billy contacts another parts store and they look it up under a Dodge Charger to get the correct part. Dad heads off for another parts run. Then Billy spots an unwitting spectator's donor car. "Michael! Is that a Dodge Shadow down there? That's got your distributor in it!" We find out that the car (from out of state no less) is the track starter's daughter's car, and she lets us steal her rotor. (gave her the new one then)

2008... showed up to Beaver and the rear float on the Volare's carb went bad. The time prior to that, probably 2006, on the way back from Toronto, it developed a leaking brake line.

"Michael, I'm on to your game, and I've had enough. You only come home when you need your car fixed!"