I guess I better take back those disparaging remarks about the Cardninals before I am dipped in Budweiser, rolled in Imo's pizza, topped with Ted Drews and left to dry in shame in front of the arch (you have to be from here to understand).

Steve

Like I said...the Cards are looking great! :) I guess that means your tickets became more valuable tonight, didn't they?

Dipped in Bud and rolled in pizza...is that someone's idea of punishment? I haven't sat in on any bands in restaurants here in Houston (although I have tried!) but I was in Boston a few months back and played Hotel California and a few other tunes with a couple of guys there....at you guessed it...Cheers! Pretty exciting. That was my first time to play in front of a crowd and when I was bragging to my daughter, you know what the first words from her mouth were?....Dad, please please please tell you didn't sing. Kids...why do we have them again? :) I guess I can't blame her....I really am terrible...and no I didn't.

Goto an autocross and compare times of a viper to that of a nicely setup 944....

Aditionally, spend half the $60K if would time to pickup a viper and gobble up a 951 Cup car and gobble up the Viper on the track.

The 944 is definately nothing to be embareassed about especially when one looks as killer as yours does.




Oh, and how about those Cards.....

...I was getting out of a competing in a Kart race up in Earth City when I heard the news. I'm going to see if I can scalp some tix.

The Neighbor's Car
 

Talk about feeling inferior when I go out in my 944!! This is my next door neighbor's ride. It did 596 HP @ the crank. It is going to be auctioned off in April in South Carolina. Dude is already looking for a Ford GT. This is one of the South African Aluminum authorized Shelby cars w/ an original 427 side oiler he found new in the crate for $20K, yes $20K for the motor. He has over $70K in it not counting time and it's even badder than it looks.

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Tom:

You can appreciate the truck. He did a cummings turbo diesel and it is totally tricked out. I can't believe he humors me and my little car. I gotta get that blower this winter. He has offered to help do the install.

Steve

Truck looks similar to mine...only I don't have 4 wheel drive. No snow in Houston. Is that a horse trailer behind it or a car trailer? I like his car though....really like the color. 20K for an engine...costly but worth every penny. The new Mustangs from Saleen have about the same HP but I don't know the cost.

Car trailer, no horses here in the ghetto. The engine was really high but apparantly finding a 1967 iron block side oiler w/ 0 miles still in the crate was a huge deal. he got it somewhere in Arkansas. He's actually talking about sticking in an aluminum 427 and keeping this one for a future project. The thing shakes the ground when he fires it up. Some guy passed me the other day in a new GT500 Mustang and I have to admit I was impressed. I'm not much of a newer American car guy but they are pretty cool. I have a friend of mine here that got a Ford GT about 6 months ago and it's bad to the bone, just way out of my league.
Now maybe an old Pantera, they are out there fairly reasonable.

Steve

How bout them cards, they played ok tonight i guess. The whole time i thought the cardinals would pull a little something at the end, they almost did. Im amazed that Rogers didnt throwout his arm in that weather. Lets see them pull it together.

EDIT: Woohoo 100 posts *****en!

Who else was reading obsceneties from Roger's mouth every other time something didn't go his way tonight at the game...

Speaking of your neighbor looking for a Ford GT Steve, I think there might be one up around your area, I saw a bright red GT with the white stripes down the center roaming around the 40/270 interchange about 6 months ago. I was driving back from the Olive/70 area. After seeing the GT I kept south on 270 and hit 55 south, and when I got to the festus area I saw a Bright yellow GT sitting outside Surdyke Harley Davison.

Two Ford GT's in one day... Not a big fan of the company but there is no denying that car.

Ghetto...LOL....with cars, trucks and trailers like that. One could only hope to live in a ghetto like that. Me, I can't even afford to pay attention, so you can only guess the neighborhood I live in. Is this the guy that works on Porsches? I think I want to do what he does for a living....I bet he doesn't have horses...Those things will really put you in the ghetto. Mine costs about 1200 dollars a month. I could drive a Ferrari for less that what Candace's horse costs.

Is his truck a Ford? I know you can get a Cummins in a Ford, but I've never seen one. No diesel in mine...I have the same engine those Vipers have...a V10. For a heavy truck, it has good acceleration...but the gas bill really sucks. About 10/13...until I put the trailer on it...8/10. I'll post some pictures of my trucks tomorrow so you can see his has a lot more tricks than mine has. I've got to wash them first.

Schumi:

The red / white one belongs to a good friend of mine. He sold his business a couple years ago and did extremely well. He also has a 67 Corvette Conv., a 69 Skylark conv., a Dinan M6 developing over 400 RWHP, a 540i beater, and a Formula Ford he races. Some guys have all the toys. He doesn't have a 944 or a wife though which could account for the extra cash.

Tom:

The truck is a Ford F350 that has more bling than any I have seen. You too could have toys like that if you were 40 and still lived w/ your parents.

Hey 10-13 MPG is not bad. I get around 13 in my 318 Durango. I love the truck, the mileage is ridiculous. I waited until gas hit $2 a gallon and then bought it from a guy who could not afford the commute. It's a 2000 I bought in 04 w/ 35,000 miles for $12,000. I am definately not a Chrysler fan but I have to admit I really like it. The third seat has come in handy a few times for running up to Mizzou games. You can actually get 6 adults in there comfortably.

Kenny Rogers is a punk!! I think that stuff on his hand was a residual from jerking off looking at himself in the mirror before the game. At least he didn't attack a reporter or something last night. I fell asleep in the 6th so I did not see the last of the game. I had to get up @ 4:00 this morning to finish a couple drawings. I am definately a morning person.

Steve

I have done the unthinkable
 

I got an offer for $500each for my 4 series tickets. Let me think a minute.........gone. That's $2000 towards the Speedforce Supercharger. I will be forced to watch it on a 50" Plasma in the Kitchen:

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a 27" LCD from the Hot Tub (view from the tub)


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or on a 110" diagonal front projection system in the Theater. The flash really kills this picture.

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Do I get any sympathy fom anyone?

Steve

mmmm 2k closer to supercharged fury :)

why someone would pay 2grand for baseball tickets is beyond me.. i wouldn't even pay that when the jays were in the series...

sympathy? no.. boot in the arse, yes..
does your wife like baseball? buy yourself a bottle of champagne and spend an evening in the hot tub! strawberries optional.

What projector are you using, and who plays bass?

The one I am using now is an Epson HT550. I am an Epson dealer and for the money they are an extremely reliable product. They exibit very little pixelation and are fairly bright @ 1500 ANSI lumens. I sell them like popcorn.

I play bass, have for over 40 years. It is my first love hobby, much more so than the cars. I still have my first old (1938) Kay 3/4 upright that I learned on. Over the years I have accumulated a lot more. I mainly play a BSX Allegro EUB that Dino Fiumara made for me or a 67 p-bass I got new for Christmas from my dad. For amps it's either an old Ampeg Portaflex or my Phil Jones rig. I also occasionally use an Ampeg SVT100T that Michael Anthony gave me. The Phil Jones stuff is amazing as all he uses are 5" drivers. They are way overpriced but kind of like buying a Porsche over a Yugo as far as quality. For electric guitar it is either a 72 Telecaster or my old Ric 610-12 and my trusty 67 Deluxe Reverb. The tele and the deluxe have been all over the world w/ me over the years. They have never failed me.

Kyle:
My wife hates baseball. Now hockey is another story. She is constantly taking our tickets and going w/ one of her friends. They get all the gear on and love it. In St Louis hockey is a chick sport. I don't mean that disrespectfully to the sport, there are just a lot of chicks that go.

Steve

i'd much rather see hockey as a "chick sport" than the "business man" sport like it is here in Toronto... I'm not a Leafs fan, I'm a Habs fan... but still, i really wish the "common joe" could afford tickets to go to the games sometimes..

The Blues are so bad that we can get split season tickets up high for $13 ea / game. We got I think 20 games / mostly weekend. Parking is another 5-10 and beer is not cheap but it's still a great time.


The Rams seats are the hot ticket here. Fortunately as part of my business I do consulting work for one of the owners real estate development companies and I negotiated killer seats in the club box as part of my compensation package. Unfortunately there are only 8 home games and they take the playoff seats away from me.

Steve

Oooh, you play bass?
I have played drums for about 7 years now, all Jazz. Played with a bunch of great artists in the area.. pianist Reggie Thomas and bassist Jim Widener to name a few.

We should get together and play some jazz after I finish my next semester. I think my combo kit will fit in the Porsche.... :-)

maybe i'll come visit and bring oscar peterson down with me :D he lives not even 5 minutes from me.. we've talked at church... what a gentleman.

doubt he'd wanna take the trip though. lol but i could still dust off my sax and come down and bust out some tunes...

an international porsche jazz meet... now THERE would be a meet worth going to!

I have a few of Oscar's old albums... vinyl, good condition. Never able to play them anymore. One was a great Peterson meets Basie album. I found it at a garage sale. Lady sold us all the records we could carry off for 50$ (it was a charity sale for.. cancer research I think). I split them with a friend.

...makes me want to go buy a new record player.