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	Thursday, June 02, 2005

New Favorite Tool in my Garage Let's have some fun: How Fast Do You Drive on Your Freeway? I have recently found that my experience while writing my blog has been very interesting. Have my blogs always been the same? Or even in the same style? Nope. I've become a little bit more relaxed lately. How can this be? Perhaps the crazy old rich has returned immediately. I remember a time when I was still a kid visiting a magical place called Disneyland in a place called Anaheim in California. In that historical time, this place contemplatively sold books compiled of tickets labeled from A's to E's and the E's were always the "best ones". They were directly associated with the most expensive "rides" at Disneyland. Strangely enough, those same very theories can be associated with our real life lives. Especially with some of my very own experiences. I have similarly transformed my life's manner into something still yet...to be defined. Maybe I've traded my E-Tickets for something yet more. I think I've pretty much expended all of my E-Tickets. No, I'm not crazy but all of the following did happen. Was that stuff scary? If you're not under the same circumstances then perhaps you might be crazy. This is one of Hawaii's favorite drag strip managers. He hasn't been here since 1964 but he's improved a lot about this particular strip. Don't ask him about my name - he won't tell. Please meet a guy that I know - the manager of Oahu's quarter mile drag strip. His name is Paul Giovanetti. I used to own a very interesting car; a 1969 Camaro SS and this is where she played on a monthly basis. Her guts where born in the World Engine Industry and it's hard to believe what she was capable of running". She ran on a fuel called nitro methane. She had a "five-gallon tank" and she used almost all of it in order to get to the end of her quarter mile run. I bought that car for all of four hundred dollars. A brand new semi-custom 591 cubic inch engine came from World Products. That particular engine was a bit more expensive. I won't even bother to explain where her ten speed transmission came from or what that thing originally cost either. If a person wants to accelerate to a lot, my transmission could only be up shifted - it couldn't be down shifted - ever. The Weiand supercharger that delivered her with 1350 horsepower was unbelievable. The prior picture of my Camaro did not yet have the monster Weiand blower in front of my face. Who did all of this work on this potentially successful dragster? I did personally and I have the garage in which she lives very nicely available for her needs. Is this the "Tower Side" of this strip? Strangely the tower should be on the other side. Is that weird? Oh yes. It is. I have read a lot of advertisements for some of our new speedy Nissan automobiles. Some ran from 0 to 60 mph in as few as 5 or 6 seconds. Wow. Very impressive. My little car took a bit over six seconds (6.319) to reach its speed of, ahem, 244 mph. Good Lord. Am I kidding? I have some more fun for this story too. This story had a very interesting ending. Maybe getting old has just made me a bit more worried about the costs of life in general. I pay constant attention to my little racer. Is every single bolt still tight? Are those tires still in constantly satisfactory condition? How much do those tires cost anyway? What happens when I have a flat tire at a speed of 250 miles per hour? Well, what did happen anyway? The day that I ran 6.319 seconds on the first run I decided to try for a record second attempt. About three quarters of my trip down the quarter mile I lost spark in three cylinders. I'm not sure how many of my readers out there are familiar with nitro drag engines but when a lot of them lose their electronics - those engines explode a lot. This one isn't necessarily called a "funny car". I won't call it a "Pro Stock" either. I'll just term it a "door slammer". Those cars have big explosions which are not those things that you would like to happen a lot when they are sitting right in front of you. I didn't have a major explosion but in result I got a big fire in my face on my last race. Fortunately I was always wearing a fireproof suit and a head "sock" to prevent from having my face melted off accidentally. My immediate worry in my last race was that I was going very fast and I was at the end of the strip on Oahu. I immediately burned up my parachutes which meant that either my brakes had better work really well or I was going to end up sinking in Pearl Harbor which is exactly what there is at the end of this strip. Legal automobile activities neither include speeding or wearing helmets. Boy I'm glad I was wearing this one. No. I didn't end up at the bottom of the ocean but I did sell that car after my recent experience. I replaced it in my garage with those items on the left. My new favorite tool is right there on the top of that pool table. This stuff represents the money I'm saving from now on. Have wonderful lives folks. Please, does any of this story about rich (me) remind you of any Hawaiian surfer? 12:08:31 AM    Feed Me! []

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