........and it started with Silvia's Auto Cafe held at, and sponsored by Doug Turner and Vortex Motorsports across Hillsborough Avenue from the
Tampa International Airport. You can catch Silvia's other thread in the local events forum to see the pictures and count the cars yourself.

Following the lunch prepared by Doug, we scattered to other places, but before I could do that I pulled over in a shady spot to examine my engine for a possible fuel leak near the fuel filter/pressure gauge. I had noticed some moisture in that area when I opened my hood at Auto Cafe...........

Turned out to be nothing........I was getting ready to re-route the fuel lines anyway, and maybe carrying my tube bending tools brought me good luck.
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I met up with PrimoGen and some of the S2K folks at Cracker Barrel/exit 301 for a caravan to JJC Autowerks open house in Ocala. The S2k's are
a great bunch of people. We gassed up at the Shell station and not one of them did a burnout when we headed to I-75.

I followed the camera car up the interstate, 1. So I could avoid
any video evidence that could be used against me later in court,
and 2. so I could drop back periodically to keep an eye on a modified
S2k that was running a little too warm and driving slow.
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At JJC Autowerks, the S2k folks went to work on the overheating car
and people started driving in. JJC does a lot of custom projects, and
a variety of domestics and imports showed up for their open house.
CBurke and the AEG crew was selling $2 burgers next to the DJ, and I got down to my last jug of Gatorade. When those 2 guys started beating on each other, they were separated pretty quick, but what's an import meet
without at least one appearance by the cops?
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Heading South to catch the Open show at Wiregrass/Wesley Chapel/New Tampa, the sky had been getting dark and it looked like rain. I had the NACA "Ram-Air Conditioning" ducts in the d-side rear window, and the breeze felt good at the speeds I was going. It started raining.
I could either pull over to keep water mist from coming in, or leave the ducts up and enjoy the water-cooled blast onto the back of my neck.
It had been in the 90's at JJC.......Was that an easy choice.......

They presented trophies around 9PM and a list of TR names/cars that I recognized are posted in another thread.

Anyone else can add your own experiences here if you attended
these events.....and have any confessions... -Bob

 

Nice must have been a long day

 

 

thankfully the Vortex meet wasn't ghetto

Doug is a good guy with a very fun twin turbo German lawn mower ... ... ah autocrossing in the rain .... wheee!

 

My thanks to Doug Turner of Vortex Motorsports
for feeding all of us at the Auto Cafe event on 8 August
at his place of business.

He ordered in containers of coffee and some big trays of pastry
(no doughnuts here) for the early arrivals prior to the 9AM start.

Doug cooked lunch for us on the grill before we scattered to other meets and commitments. When I noticed that the level of food was a bit higher than the burgers-in-a-box that I see at a lot of meets, I mentioned that to him.

He said: "I went shopping when I was hungry. I bought stuff that I like to eat." Well folks, that "stuff" was grill-cooked burgers, sausages, six kinds of cheese for cheeseburgers, several kinds of mustard and toppings.......

Doug, we appreciate not only the food, but the open-house friendly atmosphere to look over the shop, and the use of your parking lot for the 8 August Auto Cafe meet.

Thanks buddy. You can add my name to those who appreciate what you did for us.-Bob

 

man I am going to have to talk with Dennis about letting Doug shop for our BMW autocrosses or at least let him come cook for us when we do our Car Control Clinics

 

Chitown,
When ARE those clinics? I might cook, if you guys
put up the food! LOL -Bob

 

Fight over who was the most jdm?

 

I believe our next one is near the end of the year. We hire a food service for these ... want a extra cash job

 

Glad you made it out to JJC, Juiced and I headed to Wiregrass after we were finished cleaning up etc, but everyone was leaving when we got there.

More info on the "fight" (aka a few punches thrown into the car) in both JJC Auto works threads.