07/11/2006, UPDATED AS NEWS ARRIVES
This is where I hope to be able to post random ramblings from those list members who get to go to the SHO Convention 2006 in Memphis. Send me pictures, lots of pictures. Don't worry about compressing them, I'm on Cable - you can't crush me. Send the road stories, parking lot stories, bar stories, Ian stories, etc. I'll post them up daily for those of us who wish we were there but aren't. Everybody is a correspondent.
TIA
U.L.
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7/15/2006
My Family & I are getting into the car now, Figure about a 8 1/2 - 9
hr drive to the Hotel. Gonna Probably Veg Tonight, maybe see some
early arrivals at the pool tonight.
Camera is charged and Laptop is coming with, hopefully we can supply a
good Postcard or two from the Edge for those who are only with us in
Spirit.
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Eric Lehmann
97 Ebony 42k Welded - With the Angels Now so that I don't have to be.
Long Live the Garage Queen !
96 Medium Willow Green Metallic 103k Resurrected, Welded
96 Rosemist 71k Garage Queen in Training, Welded - Training Wheels are
Coming Off :-)
97 Pacific Green - Parting this one Out
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Saturday July 15, 2006
I'm bringing our camera, so I can supply all the pics if you have the laptop to read the card and upload with.
Scott
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We are off to a good start here in TN......
Heather from Virginia, Ian and Reka from somewhere north of the border, all arrived here in Mt. Juliet, TN (near Nashville) about 6:00pm Saturday. Food on the grill, beer in hand, and a few good friends at the table...what a great way to start the convention. A few hours into the evening we had the unexpected arrival of Marcel and Christina from Ontario.....after 13 hours of driving they still made time to stop by and visit for awhile.
Since most everyone here is familiar with the typical SHO gathering, I don't have to go into detail about the next several hours.
Very enjoyable evening and a great start on what will be an even better week.
We will all be loaded and leaving for Memphis around noon......should be at the hotel by 3:00pm...maybe sooner :)
Hotel by 3:00, beer in hand by 3:05....sounds good to me.
Rick Glass
'99 SF 98k Flowmasters
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“We will all be loaded and leaving for Memphis around noon”, or still loaded from the night before??? ;-)
Ron Porter (leaving in about 10 minutes)!!
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Sounds good!
Washing and waxing the car now, will have to get it loaded up later today as we are going on a float trip Monday. Leaving Tuesday morning. Should see you guys Tuesday,
noonish.
Between beers, would someone remind Stout I need a place to sleep.
k mier
Leave the light on for me would ya.
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Well, We left with an overloaded car this morning Flying LOW.
Got a total of 36 Miles before the Check Engine Light came on, Of
Course. Drove Bravely On Down the Road - Got to a convenient Rest stop
and UNLOADED the Trunk in the Parking Lot because, yep, the #%@&#$%
Code Reader was BURIED.
Turned out to be a bank 1 O2 sensor reading lean - So What.
Kept the Code reader in the car after that. Further down the road the
code set one more time - Hey, Cool, You can clear codes at 85 MPH with
this thing ! ! Never saw the code again.
Rest of the trip was uneventful. Took about 8 Hrs from Chicago. Got to
the Hotel and read their Warm Welcome to Us :-)
Hooked Up with Mr Stout and ventured over to Corky's for some Awesome
BBQ - the Coleslaw goes ON the Sandwich. Met B Cooper (Kermit) in the
parking lot as we pulled in. Went up to the room, DL'd a couple pix,
typed this note to Ya'll & Now it's Sleepy Time.
More to come soon.
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Eric Lehmann
97 Ebony 42k Welded - With the Angels Now so that I don't have to be.
Long Live the Garage Queen !
96 Medium Willow Green Metallic 103k Resurrected, Welded
96 Rosemist 71k Garage Queen in Training, Welded - Training Wheels are
Coming Off :-)
97 Pacific Green - Parting this one Out
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Sunday July 15, 2006
We finally made it, we had about an hour delay.....1 puked tranny (not mine), a brief session of musical cars on the trailer, musical drivers behind the wheel, and then musical wheels to get the race rubber off of track car which I got to drive :) later.........
HERE WE ARE.
Ok, I'm headed out to join the welcoming committee, get started on the daily beverage consumption, and decide what's for dinner.
BTW, Stout already made mention of someone who would be crashing on the sofa.........that must be you.
Rick Glass
'99 SF 98k Flowmasters
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***Note from U.L. Welcome to the convention "I STB" club Heather. You are in rare air now and it mandates future attendance no matter the pain - I know all too well!!!****
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One puked tranny, gen3 I assume?
Got to thinking about the convention and couldn't sleep at all last night.
Yep, that would be me on the couch. Hope you guys were kidding about the daisy dukes. :)
k mier
Everyone be safe, and have fun.
***Remember Archer having to flush his eyes with brakekleen???? Think about it!*****
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Monday, July 17, 2006
Heather......
they would start checking into finding someone to fix it today. I missed out on alot of the conversation so I'm not sure what's going on with it.
Was it a full moon yesterday ???? I drove the race car about 130 miles, and then got to drive the truck to dinner.....I'm still confused about that one.
Oh, and there was a nice burnout last night but no video, hoping to get another one by the end of the week.....just have to get my hands on someones video camera.
Rick Glass
'99 SF 98k Flowmasters
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Tuesday July 18, 2006
Yep Rick got it right..puked tranny. The shop called me earlier with the amount. Not too bad considering it needs to be rebuilt. I get my baby back on Thursday. Good thing Rick wasn't planning on entering his car in the show otherwise it would have had that nice tranny fluid shine all over it since he was the one behind me when it went! Good thing everyone is in good spirits still even me. Maybe I've just had too many rum and cokes! lol ask
Reka! Won't deter me from future conventions..just next time I know not to test my car against a Honda ricer that wasn't even worth my time. We miss you uncl
Lar!
-Heather
'99 TR (with busted tranny)
P.S. only 103K!!!! AND THAT WAS THE FIRST TIME I ACTUALLY PUT THE PEDAL TO THE FLOORBOARD!
P.S.2 I still have a 1993 black on black for sale! trust me after this mess I will need to sell this thing!!! Anyone??? I have
pics...any reasonable offer accepted at this point!!!
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My photos from Monday.
http://www.taurusclub.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=35921
B
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I'm thinking those long bacon strips belong to a certain Red Truck from Spencer - I'm stealing them tonight and putting them up on v8sho. Nice Picture of Eric - Hey asshat it's called a haircut.
(too much work, I just posted the link)
Larry Eck
U.L.
97 Red
Mods
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Yup red truck.. There will be more pictures shortly after noon as I took a picture of every car that was in the car show as of 8:35am. So check back arond noon.
B
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Holy crap. I can't believe how coherent this is considering how drunk
Heather was last night. Do you even remember writing this Heather?
Ian "I call the kettle black" M.
*added by the editor!
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Hey at least we had one car puke something... just not the same if one does not..
:o)
Clare
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http://www.taurusclub.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=35921&st=25
Here are pictures from this morning. Enjoy.
B
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Now there is a classic pot calling the kettle black - Nice call Ian. Hows that tailpipe doing this morning??
Larry Eck
U.L.
97 Red
Mods
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Ian Getting Some
Aerial View of the Parking Lot - Notice the Burnout mark ALL the way
around. Wonder who did that
-- Eric Lehmann
96 Medium Willow Green Metallic 103k Resurrected, Welded
96 Rosemist 71k Garage Queen in Training, Welded
97 Pacific Green - Parting this one Out
Welds
97 Ebony 42k Welded - With the Angels Now so that I don't have to be.
Long Live the Garage Queen !
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There was an early GEN on the second page that had a nagging familiarity to it but I just couldn't put my finger on what it was....
Carter Fuji
Latitude 35.23948924537855, Longitude -94.30673988764765
'97 ES Whoosh CarDomain Site
Supercharger Video Link
Greenwood, AR.
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Nice to see some cdn cars I know Personally.. where is the troll Parking??
*Ed Note - Troll parking down by the bar - you know better Troll!**
Like the 2 tone Gen 2.
Who has the Gen 3 with the non factory chrome wheels.
Clare
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"Who has the Gen 3 with the non factory chrome wheels."
I believe that is Scott McIntosh.....
Rick Glass
'99 SF 98k Flowmasters
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I have no factory chrome wheels on my 97 ebony!
Bill T.
96 Med. Graph
97 Ebony-chromless
Welded
Flowmaster 40's
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I forgot to the say red one with..
Clare
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Don't know if this counts as an official postcard, but here are a few quick lines. Once I get to a computer with a card reader I can upload some pictures of the parking lot festivities from last night, may have to censor some (mostly to save extensive embarrassment) as it is amazing what SHOws up when the flash fires off and people aren't suspecting.
It is HOT here much like everywhere else. Today Eric was playing with his IR temperature indicator during the car SHOw; Asphalt was around 125 in the sun, the surfaces of parked cars were in the upper 100's. And somehow I was stupid enough to go golfing in all of that....
Most of the group is out at Graceland right now, Later this evening there will be SHO's parked on Beale street in downtown Memphis where I plan to meet up with them there and get some pictures.
Hot in Memphis,
Scott K
Rowboat Captain
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Trust me, Ian was the sober one keeping Reka out of trouble last night. Many of the boys went go karting while Reka demanded refills from me of her rum and Cokes, as such she had quite a head start. Later in the night I had walked away from the coolers and was actually talking cars and Reka comes to me and tells me she needed some Coke in her drink.. She had just refilled with the sauce from the bottle and had a straw in it happily slurping away...
Geesh and I stopped at three drinks, somehow my 1.75L bottle is only about 10%.
Scott
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Larry:
Reading the content on that page you state that the "I STB" club mandates future attendance. So assuming that it was indeed your busted SHO in Fallon, Nevada two years ago I have to ask where the hell are you this year?
Scott
As previously stated, this year I have to act like a grown up with the new gig and new house, and newly
fallen tree in my front yard from last nights storm pounding we took. Suxsir.
Besides, Webmaster prerogative!
U.L.
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Yeah what he said......
Rick Glass
'99 SF 98k Flowmasters
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See above!
U.L.
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Hahaha I was sobering up so that was my way for me to start putting my head straight to write out an email! :) Crazy night last night but it was definitely a blast!
Heather
'99 TR
*She's hangin with Reka - Heather may be in way over her head!*
U.L.
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Slowing down early to get ready for the track, especially after being in the heat all day with the car SHOw. I saw 106f on the bank sign about 5:00pm.....it felt it too.
Made the short drive to Beale Street for dinner, where Don had made special arrangements that allowed us to actually park behind the barriers ON Beale St. which is usually reserved for motorcycle parking and foot traffic only. Had a great meal at Blues City Cafe, I know I put down my fair share of ribs. Took several pictures of the SHO's.....I even managed to ask the right person who took me through the back of one of the places and got me close to the roof for some really good shots. I do believe there is a nice picture of John working on his small T-bone in the pics I am going to be sending Larry to get posted......
ah, what the heck...I'm going to attach a couple of them now. ENJOY
Hope everyone else here is having as much fun as I am.....and for those of you who didn't make it, you don't know what you're missing.
Larry I will try and send you a few more......I didn't get very many.
Rick Glass
'99 SF 98k Flowmasters
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That is a cool picture (the SHO’s, not Stout)!
Paul L Fisher
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Today Eric was playing with his
IR temperature indicator during the car SHOw; Asphalt was around 125 in the
sun, the surfaces of parked cars were in the upper 100's.
Scott K
120 on the white cars, 150 on the red cars, 175 on the black cars.
125 on the parking lot at 10:30 am. It got A LOT Hotter in the afternoon.
Eric Lehmann
97 Ebony 42k Welded - With the Angels Now so that I don't have to be.
Long Live the Garage Queen !
96 Medium Willow Green Metallic 103k Resurrected, Welded
96 Rosemist 71k Garage Queen in Training, Welded
97 Pacific Green - Parting this one Out
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Wednesday, July 19, 2006
How many cars made it....approximately??
Thanks,
Stan Phillips
White '97
TIGGED
FPS Tranny Cooler
XCAL1
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Well, this is just an estimate. Probably Ten SHO's in the parking lot WITHOUT Numbers on them, and Last Night I ran across an Enterprising Young Fellow in the parking lot.
His last name Started with a "W" - Widdenbierman or something, I'm SURE I have it wrong - Anyhow, He was Putting the Number 71 on his Track car for todays festivities.
He just rented a Supercharged Mercedes :-)
Eric Lehmann
97 Ebony 42k Welded - With the Angels Now so that I don't have to be.
Long Live the Garage Queen !
96 Medium Willow Green Metallic 103k Resurrected, Welded
96 Rosemist 71k Garage Queen in Training, Welded
97 Pacific Green - Parting this one Out
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Who the hell rents a Mercedes for a track event? Of course, guess it would be better then using your own, but renting a Benz?
Carter Fuji
Latitude 35.23948924537855, Longitude -94.30673988764765
'97 ES Whoosh CarDomain Site
Supercharger Video Link
Greenwood, AR.
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If he's racing I hope he has good insurance....
Paul Nimz
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Mercedes c230 Kommpressor. Don't think he rented it either. It be nice! Thought he did a good job on the track with it.
Stout thought we were on a motocross track. Jumped the curb, had two tires a foot off the ground right in front of me.
k mier
it be hot here.
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Track results =
One dead gen II...
John S (from MI) I won't try spelling his last name...
He had some rod noise that caused him to set out the subsequent track sessions.
The car made it half way back to the hotel before it seized up...
Kenny: Of course you will say the Benz did well since attached is a pic of you passing him, if you say he did well you are merely inflating your position...
Three pics - the dead gen 2 back at the hotel being unloaded
Kenny passing the benz
Parking lot at 10 AM with track day in progress - compare with car SHOw pictures, few SHO's left.
Scott
Reka says she'll pay my nickel for busting 200KB
John Semancha(?) Guy who saved
my 6 in CA when SW9 STB!
We need to see the pass on the big man!
k mier
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Meanwhile, Scott K (Capt Rowboat) Was busy choking my puter with the following
pictures:
El Presidente How's Stout get all the Eric, and Ryan Pasch Eric and No clue
Wimmen?
Brother Ian
Don't know, Heather? I do believe it's Willie O! IT IS WILLIE!!!
Barney Car
Anybody notice Beale at Sunset
the sign?:}
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Link to track pictures taken today by bcooper
http://www.taurusclub.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=15&t=35921&st=200
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Thursday, July 20, 2006
BARNEY DOES IT - BEST OF SHO POPULAR VOTE!!!!!
Eric just got it.
Scott
I just can't tell you how happy I am that Eric Lehmann of Lombard, IL got the best of SHO, popular vote. It's the toughest vote to win. This is the highest compliment that can be paid a SHO owner by other SHO owners, GI, GII, GII all had to vote. I'm also thrilled that I was a small piece of the history of Barney. Jon Martinucci and I did an all dayer to and from Cleveland to get the car for Eric shortly after his accident, which led to his getting this car. I quote Eric, at the time. " Anybody that can type with one finger and has lots of time on their hands can find a 96 Rosemist complete with Factory phone installed in the console.
PROPS TO MY BUD!!!!!!
Forget the red intrusion
right now it's the
best pix I have
As you can see she was a little rough when we took her from the stealer in OH. But E1 applied some true car guy TLC and made her what she is today.
Bravo sir! Good Form!
U.L.
P.S. My thanks to Scott K - I'm finally glad he has that stupid blackberry - He
Instantly reported it. Thanks Man!
BTW as webmaster, I'm invoking the right to change sig lines!! It is demmed
by me that Eric's new sig line appear as this:
Eric Lehmann
97 Ebony 42k Welded - With the Angels Now so that I don't have to be.
Long Live the Garage Queen !
96 Medium Willow Green Metallic 103k Resurrected, Welded
96 Rosemist 71k Best of SHO Popular Vote
97 Pacific Green - Parting this one Out
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Auto X and Drags from today from B Cooper
Here: http://www.taurusclub.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=35921&st=225
Pages 10-13 from today.
Props to Tom, SHOCHO from SHOCAGO for winning the bracket. He dialed in a 14.25
and ran a 14.29 in 106+ degree heat. His competitor unfortunately dialed in heat
stroke and died!:{- (It's a joke folks) Tom did win fair and square on what is
really a quck dial in considering the conditions.
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Larry,
IIRC, you had sent a request sometime during the week regarding the golf days, so here’s a quick recap.
Both days were played at Fox Meadows Golf Course, which is a Memphis city course. It worked out well for us, as it was wide open and pretty flat! The weather was about the same on both days (over 100 degrees, sunny, breezy, humid), but the humidity must have been a bit lower on Tuesday, as Tuesday seemed a bit more tolerable.
Anyway, Monday was a foursome, with the following results (split by pairings):
Ron Porter 48 + 48 = 96
Frank Fox: 62 + 55 = 117
Bob Harris:: 50 + 50 = 100
Frank Fox hasn’t played in eight years, Since I beat him this year, next year is our best 2-of-3 rubber match!!
Tuesday we had a fivesome (Bob Harris dropped out) with the following results (split by pairings):
Tom Ochal: 48 + 46 = 94
Ron Porter 51 + 44 = 95
Frank Fox: 56 (dropped out for back nine)
Scott Kreitemeyer: 69 + 65 = 134
**Ron politely left out the ball count for Capt RowBoat! Darn nice of you Ron!*
Bob Artis: 45 + 44 = 89
Bob Artis was attending his first Convention, and he plays quite well. Tom & I were a good cart pairing. Despite the score, Scott was much improved this year, and actually, he played quite well on the back nine, although the score doesn’t show it, as we just maxed him out on some holes on the front nine
Ron Porter
**Last years golf outing yielded for me the crappy revelation that something was
very very wrong with my shoulder. Surgical anniversary for the multiple tears is
this month. Still hurts like the devil at times.
U.L.
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Keep those cards and pictures coming folks - there are some of us that would
have dearly loved to be there - but we have to act like grown ups :{-
U.L.