For those unfortunate enough to miss it, how was TR 2004?

[GPModJ]

Per topic, how was it? Anxiously waiting for pics!

[triple66]

Good time!!!
It was cold and windy with rain on Thursday and Friday. There was no street testing until Saturday.

Kelly put on a great BBQ and managed to have a dealership provide an 04 for display. We ducked inside the garage during the showers.

It was all good, we just wore jackets!

[Kevin-D]

I cant speak for everyone, but we had a great time. We hit rain, snow, and sun on the way down. The weather was nice for the show, NO sunburn this year. I have video that I'll edit and send to the web slinger for posting as soon as I can. :shock:

Kevin D

[bendgoatracer]

A little rain at The BBQ,no big deal,because the rest of the weekend was awsome,during the racing 1PRO BRAD said it best(all is right with the world now!!!) Thanks for the best 4 days a person could ask for, It just ended way to soon!

[theJUDGE]

Fantastic weekend.
I am sure the pics will begin to float around real soon.

[Goatnut]

Here are a couple pics from the drags. I'll post another one later of the GeeTO and the '04 that raced!

[Goatnut]

And the other...

[ViolentBird]

:D I`m drool`in. More pics. Could`nt make it, car won`t be ready for 2 weeks. Then all should be well. 1964 goat, Dark mettelic green, T.KO. 600 5 Spd, 467ci, 17x91/2 rears, 17x8 frt, new interior.



Hunting season never closes
on hunting stangs.

[THOR]

This is a bit of a long post.....I'll post some pics as soon as I can of some of the stuff that caught my eye. Three of us that drove our GTOs to TR had quite a long, strange trip.

It started with Reed Racing's new tires not fitting correctly...a trip to the tire store with the wheels and a tire change solved that. 2 hour delay

Next was my turn. South of Olympia, my alternator mounting bolt snapped again while seeing how things felt at 85 mph. They felt fine until I heard the loud kapow :!: :evil: :!: sound and then a nerve wracking metal on metal sound as the bolt bites and chews the fan blades. A trip to Ace hardware back in Olympia to buy some makeshift parts then another trip to Schucks for bolts then using a borrowed drill in the parking lot, an easy out kit and some other things got us back on the road. Another 2 hour delay.

Now it's Royal Botkin's turn. Near Gresham, Oregon, The Royal B reports that he's losing brake pedal pressure and wonders how he's gonna stop the beast. As he pull into a gas station, the car is smoking like a sumbitch, well, because the car is on fire ...OOPs. Bob promptly puts it out with fire extinguisher but it looks like we're dead in the water with no brake lines.
Why? Brake line too close to header caused chafing and pinhole and...this probelm.
Several calls to Oregon Goatherders later we learn about a 24 hour auto parts place not far away. We also meet a tough looking tatooed young man who turns out to be a mechanic with MacGyver-like approaches to solving vehicle problems. At about 1 am, the new brake line is in, the brakes are bled, they work!!. During this adventure, the newly found mechanical guy's brother informs us that his girlfriend just had a miscarriage and she bled all over the carpet at their pad. Newly found mechanic guy says to his brother "I'll take you to the hospital bro but we gotta finish these brakes first"

All along, we have miraculously avoided rainfall. We decide to proceed to Bend, over Mount Hood we go. It starts to rain. Bob calls me on his cellphone requesting that I take the lead because my headlights are poorly aligned/aimed and the beam is bugging the crap outta him in his mirrors. Sorry Bob, I'll take the lead. At this point my eyelids are way heavy and I can't tell dry pavement from wet, 50 MPH is too fast at times, poor visibilty and it's raining. The rain disappears and I increase sppeed to between 60 and 70 mph, humming along and I can see WTF is out ahead of me :)

By now it's about 3 a.m. but I don't see the guys behind me anymore. Crap! I arrive at Madras and try to call the boys with no luck. I notice a msg. on my cellphone and it's Royal Botkin with some sort of problem and he's outta commish near Warm Springs Oregon, approx. 40 miles north of Madras. I call again, no answer. I pull over for Gas abd order up a coffee at a truck stop along with a quick snack. Call again, no answer. I ask the dude running the truck stop to let the '66 and '69 GTOs know, if they swing by, that the guy in the silver '70 has proceeded to Bend due to extreme sleepiness. I fish aournd the trunk looking for the info on the hotel, when I hear a couple of good sounding engines coming toward me. By now it's about 4 a.m. and I'll be doggone, Reed Racing and Royal B. are blazing thru Madras at about 50 MPH on the main boulevard. They don't see me but I jump in, fire it up and punch to catch up to my companions.

We check into the Bend Riverside at about 4:50 am. Long day, Long night.
Show me a bed, this gavel banger's beat !

My alternator broke again right after the car show on Saturday. Crap ! Not again. This time at the suggestion of Karl Boe, we re-rig the system with stout pipe, unithread cut to the right lenth and it seems to work but I missed everything but the last 10 minutes of the award banquet. Oh well !

So, like I mentioned, it was a long, strange trip

[GPModJ]

Wow, that's a good Tiger Run story! Sorry to hear about the woes along the way. I'm always amazed at how much time you can spend on your car and still have stuff go wrong. On the other hand, a lot of the stuff that we put in there is power-enhancing. Maybe I'm not so amazed after all.

[GTO_AL]

Isn't it funny how missfortunes create great stories, but they do. Man, that's a good one for the newsletter. I have a couple brackets that look like the one you showed me, perhaps maybe what you're needing.

My car started smoking real bad on the way back so I had my own lil adventure but nothing compared to yours. Mine just turned out to be an oil leak and when it hit the exhaust, it caused smoke and a lil concern.

John & Shirley Verderico convoyed back with us and Kevin Doud. He said something that makes a ton of sence about all these break downs. We drive these cars in small increments all year, short trips here and short trips there, then put them away for the winter and then ask them to go 800 miles in one week-end in the spring :-\ My leaks have probably been there for a while, just never found, or they got worse along the way. I guess the only answer to this is to drive them daily :-) I found 4 leaks this T/R, oil, tranny, fuel, power steering. Oil, we tightened up a few bolts on the filter braket, seemed to fix, tranny, still leaking, fuel was tightened, and power steering little pin hole was fixed with good old duck tape. Got me home. Glad you all made it home too.

[THOR]

Some pics of TR that I took

[THOR]

Gassin' up !

[THOR]

fixing the broken alt mount

[THOR]

fun with the easy out kit

[THOR]

working on brake lines at a closed gas station

[REED_RACING]

Aw yes, nothing like custom fabricating brake lines at midnight in Portland to get us back on the road! :shock: Hello I hear the phone ringing, Macguyvr are you there? :D

[H.O.Goat]

ok, here are some more pics

[H.O.Goat]

ok, here are some more pics

[H.O.Goat]

ok, here are some more pics

[H.O.Goat]

ok, here are some more pics

[H.O.Goat]

ok, here are some more pics

[H.O.Goat]

ok, here are some more pics

[H.O.Goat]

ok, here are some more pics

[H.O.Goat]

please notice that lee's cap is on FIRE :twisted: in this last pic.



More to come!!!!!

[THOR]

Good pics ! Gee, there were more fires than I thought there were :twisted:

[1PROGTO]

Great pics guys.....that shot in the phonebooth is PRICELESS!

I have a ton of pics, but have to resize to post so here's what I have so far. I left the camera with Amber and she became the club photographer for the weekend's festivities.


The Journey began on Wednesday AM for us as my buddy Travis and I left for Tacoma to meet up with Amber Engen and her '66 Lemans convertible. I hit major traffic in Gig Harbor going across the bridge, which sucked! Amber encountered a major accident at the 405/I-90 interchange as well which involved a FEDEX truck, so the trip was starting out with a few hassles but we were excited to get to bend for the festivities. On top of that is was raining pretty hard by then, dampening our spirits of an 80 degree weekend.

[1PROGTO]

After a rendezvous in Tacoma we were off. The plan was to meet the guys (Reed Racing, Botkin, & Thor) in Portland later that morning/afternoon as I had a stop to make along the way. They were in no hurry as the rain and their freshly detailed cars were not a good mix. So while they waited the weather out we ventured on to our first stop.

I have a friend into vintage drag cars (like me) and had an old Willys gasser for sale that I wanted to look at near Portland. Around 12:30 we met up with my friend and went out to look at it and the other interesting cars in and around his place.

The Willys was raced in Portland from 1960-1964 where it was retired and stored in the family business' warehouse. It raced in G/gas running a hot flathead V-8. There were quite a few interesting cars scattered throughout the place and we had a good adventure before leaving for our destination: Tiger Run.

[1PROGTO]

This cool delivery was stashed in the Homeyer's Cleaners warehouse along with the Willys when they closed the doors many years ago. When they closed the doors, the customers dry cleaning were left in the back of the delivery and never delivered. They were quite surprised to find the delivery truck full of all those clothes.

[1PROGTO]

Around 2:30 we hit the road and got lunch and gassed up waiting to hear from Reed Racing about their progress. It was then we learned of their pending delays, starting with Kevin needing to change tires on the Judge to keep from rubbing. About then we got the call about Thors alternator bolt failing and they were stranded somewhere just south of Olympia.

I was an hour and a half south of them and thought to hold in Portland in case I found a way to go back and help. So we chilled in Portland visiting a friend there until we got word they could make it back on the road. It seemed about 6 or so they were back in business and would be seemingly OK. So we decided to keep going and meet up in Bend later that evening.

Our trip was pretty uneventful as we ate a late dinner in Madras and got in just past 11 or so as I recall. We followed The Three Amigos adventures along the way as Botkin's brakes failed in Gresham, then alternator woes in Warm Springs, before finally arriving in Bend the next morning around 4:30. Bob had been up for 24 hrs by now and was whipped to say the least.

[1PROGTO]

Thursday, we got up to go over to Kelly Lay's to get things setup for the night's annual BBQ. We let the Amigos get their well deserved sleep and caught up later in the day. It was off to Costco for some BBQ essentials, then back to the ranch to test out the grilles for some lunch while we unloaded my car and Amber cleaned up the Lemans.

Back to the Bend Riverside we found GTO's rolling in already. By later in the afternoon there were quite a few familiar faces turning up for the evening BBQ.

[THOR]

Cool Willys !
The activity in the phone booth was a metric to standard conversion....LOL
I told Bob at the 24 hour part store that I was a bit uneasy about grabbing a fuel line from a rack that said METRIC :roll:

[1PROGTO]

Tiger Bob

[1PROGTO]

Here come the Judges

[1PROGTO]

The head Idaho Spud had arrived.

[1PROGTO]

' :shock: nuff said!

[1PROGTO]

Mike & Donna Szekely made the trip from Arlington, Wa. It was good to see them.

[1PROGTO]

Steve Martin and his buddy Jim hit the car wash corral, a Tiger Run ritual.

[1PROGTO]

Bob rolls in

[1PROGTO]

The Judge's Chambers for the weekend

[1PROGTO]

Bruce's cool '70 Judge...I totally dig the Ramones decal in the window Thor!

[1PROGTO]

This is what any street racers room looks like. One look at this and all was right!

[1PROGTO]

With a little , well maybe alot of rain...........the BBQ was a great time.

Kelly & JoAnn thanks so much for hosting this annual event. Tiger Run would not be the same without it!!!

[1PROGTO]

Yes, you saw this correctly; Mark D. has made the turn into the land of Rock-a-billy

Bro's & H..............well you know - can I get a beer here?

Amber, Great hat!

[1PROGTO]

Jim Gulley's '68 nestled with a cool '66

[1PROGTO]

This '67 Lemans looked.......... right 8)

[1PROGTO]

More to come as I prep the photos................

[1PROGTO]

Not sure why digital cameras didn't pick this up but Lee's head was actually on Fire!!!

[GPModJ]

Great pics guys! Keep 'em com'n! 8)

Lonnie, I look forward to the gallery pics! No rush though. I know you're already busy.

[LonnieS]

Still gotta work out the captions, but the pic file names are a reasonable clue. Click the following link to see Tiger Run 2004:

CLICK ME! (http://www.northwestlegends.com/gallery/tigerrun04)

[theJUDGE]

Sweet!
Thanks for the pics everyone. Keep the thread rolling.

[GPModJ]

Hey Lonnie:

Thanks for posting the pics and thanks a bunch more for taking them in the first place! You really deserve a "Super Duty" or "High Output" designation for all those photos. :D

[theJUDGE]

TR Breakdown part VII,
Coming out of the Show on Saturday prior to merging onto the freeway I grabbed a handfull of shifter but got no gears.
Linkage fork became separated from shifting finger on side of tranny.
Fortunately Brandon Warren, Reed Racing, & Travis Miller were near, we got the 2 wheels of Judge up on a curb with the rest of the car in the street (perfect) for a makeshift ramp. I was able to get under the car & tighten back up the needed bolt w/ a borrowed 9/16 open end. Thanks Brandon & guys. 8)

[THOR]

TR Breakdown part VII,
Coming out of the Show on Saturday prior to merging onto the freeway I grabbed a handfull of shifter but got no gears.
Linkage fork became separated from shifting finger on side of tranny.
Fortunately Brandon Warren, Reed Racing, & Travis Miller were near, we got the 2 wheels of Judge up on a curb with the rest of the car in the street (perfect) for a makeshift ramp. I was able to get under the car & tighten back up the needed bolt w/ a borrowed 9/16 open end. Thanks Brandon & guys. 8)

Ahhh, the resourcefulness of the WCA never ceases to come through.
I've noticed these days that I'm beginning to tell myself stuff like;
It's okay to go to bed with oil on your elbow
Ahhh, nobody will notice the matted hair mixed with dust, dirt and oil on the back of your head
Mobil 5-30 tastes good with a salami sandwich and a cold one, don't bother washing your hands

[Brandon]

More WCA action on the way home. Here we have Royal Bob Botkin doing a little roadside wiring repair on his alternator.

[Brandon]

In the parking lot at Abbys Pizza. Don't see these wheels very often anymore. Are they still made?

[REED_RACING]

If you like adventure, caravan with Royal Botkin on your next road trip. :P

[theJUDGE]

There's zirk fittings on his hood hinges. :P

[Goatnut]

I'm finally getting around to posting a couple shots from the drags at Madras.

[GTO_AL]

Brandon,
In reference your post:

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In the parking lot at Abbys Pizza. Don't see these wheels very often anymore. Are they still made?

I'm not sure anyone still makes them but I bet they do. I've been seeing alot of cars lately with them on, like they're making a come back or something. Funny thing, I just sold a full set of those that were 14 x 8s complete with era bias ply tires. They came on the red '66 but the car needed to have a lift to run them LOL.

GREAT PHOTO's !!!!! of T/R events to all.

[REED_RACING]

:D

[REED_RACING]

:shock:

[REED_RACING]

8)

[REED_RACING]

Mitch and crew.

[REED_RACING]

What s that a cold one your drinking Brandon?

[REED_RACING]

Mark's 70, Brandon's 66, Kevin's 69

[REED_RACING]

Another angle.

[REED_RACING]

Messing around with pics after the show.

[REED_RACING]

More fun

[REED_RACING]

Bob helping Bruce on the first break down on the trip to Bend

[REED_RACING]

Bob still doing repair work on the 66, at the Riverside.

[REED_RACING]

Did I mention we missed 95% of the bad weather on the way down. It also helps by breaking down a few times.

[REED_RACING]

The Butte!

[REED_RACING]

Bruce telling stories, as Dan listens.

[1PROGTO]

Nice Black & White pic!!