[elky] Re: Monte For Sale (not mine)

John's right...since I retired, I've been too busy to do anything but work.  I don't remember bein bugged about it, but then I don't remember much of anything.  Since I took a few minutes this morning to play the organ (I found I haven't completely forgotten how...just mostly) I decided to band-aid this.  I just took the Elky Lynx outta that page.  The whole thing is so horribly outdated that it needs a complete re-write...but that ain't gonna happen soon.

Last nite was a surprise mid-week update to www.target550.com with some odds 'n ends that Freud found lying around:
http://www.target550.com/gallery/66_look_what_we_found/index.html
and then more photo editing.  Mr. RLS came back and brought friends again and I walked the floor and played bass while standing up (highly unusual for me) from 1 to 3, then got a couple hours sleep and here I am again.  An interesting note here (well, to me, anyway.)  I got a book that's oriented toward the medical profession about RLS.  One of the things I found is that there's a pattern that fits me perfectly.  It appears that for many RLS patients, there's a circadian rhythm involved that shows leg movement increasing around 9-11 pm and going until about 3 am, then decreasing from 3-5.  Then there's a "period of protection" (that's how the author put it) from 9 am to 1 pm.  This is almost exactly the cycle I've observed over the last couple of weeks.  Sorta like working graveyard shift.  I haven't gotten to the treatment section, but I have a bit of a clue what it's gonna say.  I'll report when I get there.

John called me last nite...I'd fallen asleep at the keyboard (he didn't wake me, I'd been awake for 5 minutes or so) and we talked about the Monte for sale...and a buncha other shit.  I was gonna ask him if he wanted to talk me into it or out of it.  I didn't get a chance.  He talked me out of it from the get-go.  I guess that's a good thing.  It's winter, I have too many things to do including an aforementioned Monte Carlo SS in the garage and I'm still busy as hell with posters, prints and other stuff.  That and some maintenance on the Burb need to take priority over everything else...car wise. 

We also talked about the salt flats.  Some of the discussion centered around what class I'd run the Monte in.  With the motor that's in it, I'd be in the "B" motor class.  I wasn't sure what body style class I'd be in.  I also wondered about the "Classic" category.  Afterward, I looked into the SCTA rules and found that if I could get an 78-81 Monte Carlo and put its body on my frame, use my nose and spoiler and build a race car setup inside (8-point cage, fire suppression, scattershield built into the floor and along the driveshaft tunnel, etc) I could run it in Classic Coupe, Competition Coupe or Altered.  As it is, the 85 is too new to compete in Classic.  I wouldn't be competitive for a record until it got into some real rarefied territory. 

Classic coupe and altered records currently stand in the 230-255 range.  In the newer (82-current) coupe classes, B records run from 250 to over 300.  The Unblown Gas Competition Coupe and Sedan - /GCC B record is 308.  It's held by a team that ran a 1980-ish Buick something-or-other with a Les Leggitt hand grenade motor good for about 6 passes....then blows all to pieces.  A whole lotta money in that car.  Prolly $20k for the motor alone.  Hell, all I wanna do is run over 200.  But the little voice in my head is startin.  It's sayin, "once you get onto the long course (over 175) and shoot for 200, you might as well shoot for the record and the 200 MPH Club."  Shit.  John mentioned that his salt fever was running about 99.6...I must be right in that neighborhood...nawww....make it 200+ cuz that's been the goal since I came back from World of Speed in 2003.  The first photo from that event tells the tale:



The disease can only be kept in check (sorta) by annual treatments.  A friend sez there are 2 kinds of people who come to the salt: those who never, ever come back and those who come back every year after their first event.  I know where I stand.  Be careful, John. 

Ok.  Coffee break's over.  Back on my head.

r

On 10/27/2010 5:55 PM, John Christensen wrote:

I'll take that off for you Jared.

I have bugged Ray about the link on that page before... but ever since he retired, there just is no time for nuttin.

I believe all energy should be spent tuning a certain Monte Carlo, but that is just what MY priority would be ;)

JC

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Jared Ryan <jryan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Speaking of which...

Can this be removed from your site, John?

http://www.ln-s.net/7zs0

I didn't even realize it was up there until I used Google to search for my name.  I'd prefer not to have my full name associated with my picture in anything that might be publicly accessible.

Also, on Ray's site:

http://www.chevyasylum.com/elky/lynx_elky.html

http://surf.to/el-camino is totally dead and has been for years.  It's safe to remove it if you think of it.

Thanks!

On Oct 27, 2010, at 1:30 PM, Chris Lindh wrote:

> John, (and everyone)
>
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