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Has anyone thought of entering an SVX in the Gumball 3000? The race goes right by my house... :)

The SVX would be perfect for the Cannonball Baker Sea to Shining Sea Memorial Trophy Race. Anyone remember that one? :D

Yes, & yes it would. Wasn't it the .....Memorial Dash?

Ron

Yes... Dash it was. Just remembered that as I was shutting down. :p

Memories . . .
 

When I was in the service (around '70, or so), I was hitchhiking from Iowa to California, and got a ride in Omaha with a guy driving a '59 (I think) Citroen. Tiny four-banger with a four-speed on the column and a single-spoke steering wheel. He was speeding. :) He kept it right at 100 mph throughout the night :D , and every once in a while he'd take one of these little white pills with a cross on it that he had lined up on his dashboard :( . He said that he changed his oil every two thousand miles, and when that rolled around, he flipped a lever and raised the car about four-inches (or so it seemed), pulled it up over a curb and into the grass, and in total darkness, dumped his oil out and refilled it right there. He and his car were both, uhm, extraordinary. :rolleyes:

Anyway, all this is by way of saying that the only thing on his mind was the "Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Dash" which he claimed he was going to drive solo the following year. (He had started this particular trip in New York and was going non-stop to San Francisco.) Fortunately for me, I had to switch Interstates in Salt Lake City. (Picked up a ride with a Mormon hauling a load of barn wood - all the rage - to L.A. in his pickup.) I made pretty good time on that trip. :cool:

Re: Memories
 

For me, it was college days, a red '71 Fiat 124 sport coupe with webers and stebro exhaust. Nonstop sea to shining sea with those same white crosses. Hmm.. that was 30 light years ago. :rolleyes:

Re: Re: Memories
 

Gawrsh, Boone, I had a '68 124 coupe minus the stebro & webers. Amazing what a little acid rain could do to fine Italian steel. Back in '64 I did a 3 day coast-to-coast in a '59 Olds, but cheated & slept by the roadside twice.
"Them was the days, my friend"!

Ron.

That Gumball is amazing....I downloaded two vids (one took 4 hours! @ 56K) and they were brilliant...the guy in the F50 was a lunatic...apparently had a glovebox full of $1 notes that he would throw into the air at intersections to block the police chasing.

I can get some more links if people have fast access

James

FIAT 124
 

Only 15 mths ago I sold a Fiat 124 Spider which I had owned for approx. 10 yrs. The car had been imported second hand from the US and converted here to right hand drive this being easy because of the identical instrument panel and glove box set up.

What is more I purchased a pair of side draught Webers for it together with manifold but never fitted them and they are sitting on a shelf downstairs at this moment. A nice open air car but not a sports car in my book and the Webers would not have made the required transformation.

Nice to look back on things, Trevor. P. S. No longer can one drive fast and quickly even if done so safely and motoring is now not much fun.

I sold my '78 Spider 12 months ago - I had it for 13 years. The only other Fiat I've owned was a '70 Sport Coupe that I put way too much money into. Pistons, cams, carbs, yadda, yadda, yadda. A lot of fun until it rotted to the ground. :(

Another good gumball vid here:
http://216.40.225.59/~admin1/dtmpowe...schief3000.mpg

must...enter...gumball....

:cool: Beav, remember the Fiat Dino V6 of the late '60s early '70s? I drooled over these when I had my 124 coupe. Unfortunately, I learned drool easily rusted out the floor"boards".

Ron.

Yup, we had one sitting in the back lot where I used to work. Unfortunately it was ragged and I never have had a chance to do more than drool also. Before the recent DOHC V8s started showing up I had been trying to find a short block with the proper bore spacing to use the Fiat heads, just for a hobby type project.

My cousin has a 67' Fiat Dino, gets up to 120 kph real well. Makes taking the wooded corners behind his house fun..... scary, but fun, even without seatbelts or a roof over your head!

-Dustin