Cars & Coffee car show, Sept 26, 2009

[Fair!]

Me and my nephew Chandler went to the September Cars & Coffee event. We took the Alpha car to show it off - to try to help sell it, with fliers on the windshield. The car ran, looked and sounded better than ever before! Really hate to see this car go...

http://vorshlag.smugmug.com/photos/661305435_8vyQK-L.jpg

Big thanks to Matt and Dave for helping me clean up the car and pump fluid into the trans (why is this always such a messy job?!) on Friday. Been working on it off and on for the last week but still left a little bit to do this morning (which turned into 2 hours worth of work!). Somehow we still made it to the show by 8:30. C&C is getting crowded, earlier and earlier - had to park on the outside end of a row to get a spot.

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The car now has the new TR6060 transmission and shortened driveshaft as well as a new shifter arrangement. Everything worked perfectly after ~6 weeks of being apart - hooked up the battery, it fired right up and drove onto the trailer. We trailered it near the car show and then drove it in.

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Chandler had a good time and hammed it up for the pics

The crowd really liked the car and kept it covered most of the morning. It was the loudest car there, me thinks, and I tried to keep it under 1500 rpm the entire time we were inside the show. When we left we put on a nice audio display, though... 8)

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Pimp my riiiiiiiiiiiiiide yo!

More pics here: http://vorshlag.smugmug.com/Car-Shows/Cars-Coffee-Sept26-2009/9759564_BTFTd

Good times...

[Redwood]

Here are My Cars & Coffee photos (http://redwood.smugmug.com/Cars/Car-Shows/Cars/9773319_syGRT)

[hancheyb]

So....I was at RUF Autocentre last week. They said they hope to have their customer take his Enzo to the next event. It was there getting a $5,000 water pump, ouch! It has 3k miles on it. I got to stand underneath it. It is truly artwork with all the CF undertray removed. Shocking that the control arms are steel? I guess for strength and I'm sure CF control arms from the F1 car weren't practical for a street car. The whole rear subframe is cast magnesium though.

They have a customer's real 427 Cobra built especially for LeMans as a backup the year the GT40 debuted. Needless to say, it was never needed. It has a 40+ gal fuel cell in the back. Pretty cool.

They said the two cars should be at C&C next month. Just a FYI if you see the Cobra, it has a cool story behind it and well, the Enzo is an Enzo after all.

[Redwood]

Oh, sweet! I was hoping an Enzo would show up sometime. I've never seen one in person. There's an F40 in town, so I hope that car shows up in the future. I saw it on the tollway in Plano about 5 or 6 months ago.

[Hunter]

try to help sell it, with fliers on the windshield. The car ran, looked and sounded better than ever before! Really hate to see this car go...


??????? That sucks that you are going to sell it!