Shane

Thirty Eight days and counting till my vacation when my shark and I can be united. I live and work in Alaska as a Power Plant Supervisor. Not a very hospitable place for a shark. I keep it in my shop down in the Centralia/Chehalis area of Socialist Republic of Washington. One day I shall retire to there and join the local shark frenzies. <img src="graemlins/beerchug.gif" border="0" alt="[cheers]" />

Randy V

Hail and well met Shane.

I've been spending a bit of time in AK of late, mostly in Anchorage and on the North Slope - bidness.

Not too many exotic cars to be seen up in those parts - lots of big manly trucks though!

Shane

Good Day Randy,

I'm a bit south of there in the Aleutian chain of Islands. Little old place called Dutch Harbor. Great place to make money, but not so great for driving a shark. All of three miles of highway with a max speed limit of 30mph.

Randy V

Great halibut fishing out of Dutch Harbor, I believe. Nothin' compares to that Alaskan flat white meat!

Shane

Funny!!

How things have changed since my first post to this list...

I had watched and read the list for quite some time before this first post, having at the time little computer experience and even less with web based forums. Things were much simpler back then with only one shark to worry about and the only available upgrade for HP was a stroker engine. And the largest size of wheels considered ok was 17", and even then you were guaranteed to bend them on bumpy roads... Now it seems the sky is the limit (or at least the wallet) and instead of one shark I have three, well two and a half, and my list of upgrades keeps getting longer.

A pic of my shark back then:

the flyin' scotsman

Hello Shane, how's your weather up there?

There is a tv show we get about crab fishing up in your neck of the woods; puts our weather as rather tame!

Long may our list of upgrades exist.

Randy V

Seems like just yesterday!

Hey, tell me about the antenna cable you have under your passenger side floormat. Heinrich mentioned it in a thread I started about my roof antenna not workin'.

Shane

I was actually rather baffled by that one myself. The one from the windscreen wasn't connected and neither was the booster. What we found was just a coil of wire laying on the pass. footwell, it works so I left it for now. I haven't really even investigated it since we found it back a year or so ago.

JEC_31

I can solve that one for you gents - your 928s came from the dealer equipped with the very latest in mid-80's mobile communication technology - The Commander Phone. The coil of thick cable under the passenger's carpet was this technological marvel's antenna.

When I ended the reign of terror of the crazy alarm in my ex-86 (it strove to kill the battery and my sleep), I tore out roughly twenty pounds of little black boxes, wires, medium-sized black boxes, more wires, and the entire Commander Phone system which had been inexplicably cross-wired with the alarm system's sensors. In my eyes it was unrepairable. The coil and many little wires running hither and yon (some changing colors and stripes at 3 or 4 junctions!) had been duct-taped down to the sound-deadening floor when I was still in high school. The tape had deteriorated into a sticky mess, but I got it all out.

Shane

Yep I recognize some of that stuff, that black coil of wire for sure, and that retangular black box at the top of the pic was there. Also mine had/has a code alarm system installed, although a few things have been delete but not all.

Nicole

Hey, Shane: Could you post some pictures of what it looks like in Dutch Harbor? Most of us don't get to see pictures of your area very often... Maybe show us some "now" pictures, and some of the summer and winter time?

Also, do you ever travel East from there? It seems you are relatively close to Russia and Japan...