I did, as I said , head up the "slow" road to see my mum. I took the back back rd and instead of all pave and eighty of a hundred miles on freeway I hit dirt less than twenty miles out of town and about a third of the trip was gravel....I did that because I've been driving about 700 miles a week for work and that is almost all at freeway speed on cruise control in the 1.8 Ecotec. I wasn't going to take the 302/F100 up the freeway lest I went insane, or got a ticket....You guys need to hear this, the first fifty miles of the Hume Highway out of Melbourne is covered by E.T cameras which of course can ping you for momentary speed as well, so if you average above the speed limit over that stretch you get a ticket, oh yeah and they're infra-red. So I thought bugger the stress I'll take a sentimental trip up through the bush. As I came off the dirt onto the old Hume Highway just before Kilmore I pulled up at a stop sign, when I took off I'd failed to notice how rough the verge in front of me was, it was deeply rutted. Now a SWB F100 that it is set up to tow 2&1/2 ton has pretty unforgiving suspension, being wheelbase challenged means it doesn't necessarily, instinctively, go straight.... So I boot it, it bounces and steps savagely to the right, then the left, and then the right again in the violent way that makes it a little difficult to get your foot down on the clutch....I JUST missed the armour-rail, and all this at under 10mph, there was a car coming towards me, god knows what he thought I was doing......
I finally got started in the shed today, went and picked up a bearing for the new ratio we are going to fit , the 2.28:1. I did a bit of a tidy in the shed, I can feel the inspiration coming back.......
I went to the club meeting on the weekend, there I felt the inspiration ebbing away, but things will change and the meet will get better, but it isn't going to be easy....more tomorrow.