Indeed a nice day...and new E9 owner friends
Well, just back from my second vintage and well worth the 350 mile trip from Virginia, especially with working AC on the way down (on the way back, I'll get to that shortly). Our coupes did great as Stan summarized. I counted about 16 there with about ten in a straight-line as seen in the photo here. Aside from showing our beauties, what was most fun was spending quality time with my E9 colleagues, most of which are on this board, along with some new friends - Andrew and Cindy Wilson, Chris and Cathy ? and Amy with her triple carb Silver beauty -- and my old favorites Doug Dolan, Gary Beck, Stan Chamallas and Tom Samuelson. I brought my wife and youngest daughter, Fran and Hadley, back this year and my son who just graduated from college.
So the car was running so perfect and nearly everthing was working at the start of the event, so I pinched myself that it could not be true and it was not to be. The turn signal gremlin returned (this time on the left indicator lights only failing to trigger the dash light after two blinks) and then the AC died famously half way home...and it could have been a special effects scene from a John Carpenter movie: it started with the compressor seemingly sapping half my horsepower and killing the engine at stoplights, then a rubber like smell and wild scretching sound that began to drown out the engine and exhaust...so time to turn it off and enjoy driving the way I've done it the last seven years without AC (windows down!).
But I was relatively spared as Stan encountered serious fuel pump blues on the way down!
Anyway, a great time and fabulous company but serious competition from another CS owned by George ?? running nearly my colors!
