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08-10-2009, 11:48 PM

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Stace, I'll try to post a few pics for you sometime.

. We keep a few secrets down here in AL. We have mountains, beaches, great roads...

thanks; pics would be great!!!! (actually I was engaged in Gulf Shores and grew up in Florida!) but the west has spoiled me.....

now about all that catfish you eat down there.......

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08-10-2009, 11:50 PM

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We should do a MD 993/aircooled meet at some point.. perhaps in your 17 car garage?

You could fit 17, 1:18 scale, 993s in there...

Agree on the meet idea.

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08-11-2009, 12:04 AM

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We should do a MD 993/aircooled meet at some point.. perhaps in your 17 car garage?

Not quite that big but it sure is cool! Mine was 92 degrees tonight

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08-11-2009, 12:52 AM

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from '60s-era Formula Vees to a '97 993 cab. For me, the highlight was seeing the array of dedicated hillclimb concoctions ...

Agreed, same amazing & custom machinery.
I enjoyed your pick of close-up detail photos, too.

How'd the Valkry 993 fare?

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08-11-2009, 12:55 AM

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How'd the Valkry 993 fare?

Not sure. We left around noon and I think the festivities continued well into the afternoon.

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08-11-2009, 02:16 AM

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Love the early Swift's

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08-11-2009, 10:20 AM

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Love the early Swift's

I thought of you when I framed that shot.

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08-11-2009, 05:23 PM

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The plumbing on some of those reminds me of this '57 Chebby. The '57 is not a hill climber though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm1bGAMt5L8

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08-11-2009, 09:15 PM

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You could fit 17, 1:18 scale, 993s in there...

Agree on the meet idea.

Andreas

We should do it, you are in Elicott City, I work right there at the end of 100 (live in the city). Where are the other aircooled guys you know? I know someone with a real nice '85 that would probably join us...

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08-11-2009, 09:38 PM

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Neil (nsullysizzler) & I zipped up to Flintstone, MD early yesterday morning to sniff around at the Polish Mountain Hillclimb.

For a minute there, I was confused. I figured this would be an event about the cleaning product, not the central European nation.

Neat though. Hillclimbing in a 993 is a blast.

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08-11-2009, 09:50 PM

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I drive by there every morning - whereabouts are you 'at the end of 100'?

Andreas

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08-11-2009, 09:54 PM

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Our local hillclimb--Duryea--is next weekend I think. I ran the rally car up it one year. Talk about a fish out of water on gravel suspension and an old crusty set of RE71s.

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08-11-2009, 09:57 PM

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All-trac?

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08-11-2009, 09:58 PM

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Yes. Our car was the perfect demonstration that if you systematically re-engineer every component of a car, you can achieve an end result that's not much slower than the original.

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