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Offline vwpsycho

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Re: SpeedWeek 2014 - the event per se
« Reply #330 on: August 16, 2014, 09:37:54 PM »
Nathan,
Thank you for your observations and all the hard work and travel you, and a lot of other guys put into the 2014 Speedweek the never was.  :cry:
At this point, our team will just register and plan for the next event possible, and repeat.

I have only been involved with LSR and Bonneville for a blink of an eye (since 2011, with Skoda UK), compared to the Decades represented by so many Salt Junkies. That said, I plan to stick around. Being a bystander and complaining is not in my blood...
Sitting in Wendover, frustrated, for two days last weekend gave me time to think about all this. My friends and I perhaps, ARE the young blood alluded to previously in this thread... I plan to begin participating and adding people, influence, and sheer will to the USFRA board, beginning immediately. I don't know what else to do...
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Re: SpeedWeek 2014 - the event per se
« Reply #331 on: August 17, 2014, 10:24:08 AM »
Just decompressing (but not unloaded yet) from my 5100mile commute to Wendover. On cancellation day texting to my son, who is a world class birder/ornithologist who works for the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology I mentioned I thought this was an El Nino year (like 1982 when I did the same, drive to Wendover and have entire meet cancelled). He said that if Peruvian Boobies go north to Panama, that this = El Nino. So if anyone sees a Peruvian Booby north of Peru, don't plan on racing. I think there was one in the sewage treatment plant in west Wendover.  :cheers:
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Re: SpeedWeek 2014 - the event per se
« Reply #332 on: August 17, 2014, 11:14:17 AM »
Jack, what you saw was probably one of the foreign girls that works at the strip club in W. Wendover. :evil:
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Re: SpeedWeek 2014 - the event per se
« Reply #333 on: August 17, 2014, 11:37:33 AM »
Jack, what you saw was probably one of the foreign girls that works at the strip club in W. Wendover. :evil:

LOL. I considered that in the differential.

Nice to meet you at the end of the road Saturday, Slim.
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Re: SpeedWeek 2014 - the event per se
« Reply #334 on: August 17, 2014, 03:10:35 PM »
Jack, what you saw was probably one of the foreign girls that works at the strip club in W. Wendover. :evil:


I think we need a "like" option on this forum.

Jimmy Six, this is when something catches our attention, but we don't want commit a post to acknowledging it, just a "like". In this case I thought it was lulzy having been to the strip club in Wendover.
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Re: SpeedWeek 2014 - the event per se
« Reply #335 on: August 17, 2014, 03:56:35 PM »
SSS, that's good, I thought I knew what a boooobie was.

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Re: SpeedWeek 2014 - the event per se
« Reply #336 on: August 17, 2014, 08:18:33 PM »
Slim ... you can be counted on to take the edge off a tense moment.


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Re: SpeedWeek 2014 - the event per se
« Reply #337 on: August 17, 2014, 08:41:01 PM »
 The address of the strip club would be some useful information in my opinion.  JC
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Re: SpeedWeek 2014 - the event per se
« Reply #338 on: August 17, 2014, 08:43:36 PM »
Just try to get lost in Wendover.

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Re: SpeedWeek 2014 - the event per se
« Reply #339 on: August 17, 2014, 11:47:05 PM »
Jack, what you saw was probably one of the foreign girls that works at the strip club in W. Wendover. :evil:


I think we need a "like" option on this forum.

Couldn't agree more on the like option.

Haven't seen any Boobies flying around down my way, we might be safe. :evil:

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Re: SpeedWeek 2014 - the event per se
« Reply #342 on: August 18, 2014, 07:53:54 PM »
This was the rain storm that really added to the mess up on the salt.

This is what it was like in the parking lot at the 6.

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Re: SpeedWeek 2014 - the event per se
« Reply #343 on: August 18, 2014, 09:11:30 PM »
You go over 60 into a headwind with a top like that and you won't be the owner for long.
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Re: SpeedWeek 2014 - the event per se
« Reply #344 on: August 19, 2014, 12:29:59 AM »
All he wanted to do was get out of the rain.

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