An open letter to the kid in the Eclipse.

[HardDrive]

I'm really sorry I was ignoring you yesterday. It looks like you spent a lot of time putting that enormous airdam on the front of you car. Although I must say, it would look better if you painted it the same color as the car. That wing is pretty cool to.

And you muffler.....WOW, that puppy is loud. No question, you are the man. When you were reving it up, and pulsing the clutch.....well, that gave me quite a thrill.

If I'm not mistaken, you wanted to race me. When you took off, and pulled in front of me.....man, that was cool.

Well anyway, I appologize if I was a little out it. It was a sunny day, I had just gotten out of work, the top was down on the Boxster, and I was thinking about getting home and seeing my 2 year old. With the Miles Davis playing and all, racing was just not on my mind. But I'll make it up to you.

You see, their are these things called 'Track Days'.......

[Jim Richards]

mmm, "track days."

[VaSteve]

Originally posted by Jim Richards
mmm, "track days."

Jim you doing SC in June?

I got the car running again last night.

[vash]

hey, i think i met his cousin the day before yesterday. this guy had the hotrod 4 door honda accord. low, and loud. SWEET!

what hurt was when my girlfriend told me, "dont even think about it...." like i ever would.

[Jim Richards]

Originally posted by VaSteve
Jim you doing SC in June?

I got the car running again last night.

naahh, but I should be back in action in July.

[cashflyer]

SC ??

Here's what this weekend holds for me:

[Jim Richards]

SC = Shenandoah Circuit. BTW, Cash, above your avatar, it says "Faster than Jim!!" Must not be me you're referring to. And have fun at CMP!

[VaSteve]

Originally posted by Jim Richards
naahh, but I should be back in action in July.

Something broke? Or still skipping the Potomac events?
What's July? Another region? I want an out of region event that my brother can attend with his badass Mercedes.

Cashflyer: SC = Shenendoah Circuit, new track at Summit Point

[Jim Richards]

Probably will do Schattenbaum Region and NNJR events exclusively this year. They rock.

[}{arlequin]

yep, i'm listening too jim.... is the car ok?

btw, sometime this summer i'll probably get around to painting/installing the new fr bumper so if you are still interested in my old one...

[Jeff Higgins]

Yup, playing hooky tomorrow and going to Pacific Raceways for the first Speedware Motorsports track day of the year. I'll be looking for the riced-out Eclipse with the unpainted air dam. I'm just sure I'll see our erstwhile Speed Racer there...

[Tervuren]

Car in my neighborhood had a red paintjob, then a body kit added front and rear in white, then when he bought a set of side skirts, they where in a thai mustard yellow. Looks a bit - odd.

The Black 911 Targa with black and Polished Fuchs that is down that road though, totaly different story.

[Jim Richards]

Originally posted by }{arlequin
yep, i'm listening too jim.... is the car ok?

btw, sometime this summer i'll probably get around to painting/installing the new fr bumper so if you are still interested in my old one...

Yep, I'm still interested.

The car's fine, though I only started it for the 1st time this year this past weekend. We've been selling the NoVA house and already bought and recebntly occupied a DC condo (Logan). Until the house is gone (mid-June), I'm on a track-free budget.

If I get }{arlequin's RS bumper (viper green) and don't paint my ducktail (white get coat), and given my aubergine paint, I'd look everybit as cool as that pimped out Eclipse.

[}{arlequin]

holy cow!.... we're gonna be neighbors... i'm moving to 13th st., 2 blks down from logan circle LOL

you sure *that* neighborhood is ready for two such extroverted cars?

[Jim Richards]

Dave, we may be in the same building.

I'll be keeping Dino, tools and track wheels/tires in NoVA, at a stoage garage. The pimped-out Jetta (Eclipse killer) will live in town.

[Big Ed]

What's with that racetrack? It has some right turns!

[VaSteve]

Commute killing you Jim? Where you gonna wrench?

[}{arlequin]

Originally posted by VaSteve
Where you gonna wrench?

just like me, in the living room.... in the kitchen...

[Jim Richards]

My 3 hrs/day on bus/train is now 30 minutes/day on foot.

We'll wrench at Steve's house.

[86 911]

LOL. You should post that on Craigslist and I'm sure it would make it to the "best of" section.
I think I met that guy's brother in a Lancer Evo VIII. He wanted to race, but was completely stoned. This was after a basketball game in which his team had lost to ours. Long story short, he gave me some Lancer-rev, and I gave him some Porsche-rev. We both took off at the stoplight but I split off in a different direction now wanting to put up with this a$$.