The Final

Rob S · Post by **Rob S** » Mon Oct 12, 2009 9:27 pm

Amazing photos, whats the chance of catching that on film?
You guys did us proud out there yesterday, top effort and bloody entertaining.
I can only echo what's been said, I'm sure you'll continue to go from strength to strength next year. Roll on the Mighty Sierra!!

Bart · Post by **Bart** » Mon Oct 12, 2009 10:57 pm

pablo wrote:Chapter 2 - Death of a mag Whore

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this might be a little sad to say but its like she new it was her last time out and was showing her emosions by spitting the water out.
this picture just says to me that she crying. its like losing one of the family to me and be sad to see it go, pablo keeps saying to me that we are moving on to bigger better things but its like your first pet when it pass's away yes it can be replaced but its not the original

RIP herbie you gave us some great times:auto:

Rob S · Post by **Rob S** » Mon Oct 12, 2009 11:10 pm

Your efforts did her proud mate.
Well done for perservering, many would have chucked the towel in ages ago, and then it would have made into scrap metal.
Lets hope your next one is good enough to form an emotional bond.

Nige · Post by **Nige** » Tue Oct 13, 2009 10:48 am

Had a good chat with Pablo first thing, it was looking promising for your last event with the car, shame about the HG failure.

Got a few photos of you on track too.

Water leakage

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TrackScotland · Post by **TrackScotland** » Tue Oct 13, 2009 12:39 pm

what is on the cards next?

Still sticking to Ford?

pablo · Post by **pablo** » Tue Oct 13, 2009 3:57 pm

Nige, is was good to chat to you again and some great pics of the car cheers. Can't be believe the amount of photos of the demise of the car:smash: There're all excellant:cheers2:

pablo · Post by **pablo** » Tue Oct 13, 2009 4:51 pm

TrackScotland wrote:what is on the cards next?

Still sticking to Ford?

The problem we had was that this car wasn't originally built for the TA, it was only supposed to be a cheap track day car. Each time we upgraded something then another part would fail due to age. We increased our bhp by just under 50 bhp over the winter but so did everyone else:blush5:.. The chassis now creaks and could do with a bit of welding, so it's going.

The plans are to stick with the same model of car but the new one is going to be built for the TA, the new engine will also be built from scratch specifically for the time attack.

Post by **Stuart** » Tue Oct 13, 2009 5:09 pm

Nige wrote:## dunno why the images aren`t displayed ???##

It was the default settings on all accounts when we swapped software. Hopefully your account should be working perfectly now. Nice to chat on Sunday

duncan · Post by **duncan** » Tue Oct 13, 2009 7:44 pm

Bart wrote:this might be a little sad to say but its like she new it was her last time out and was showing her emosions by spitting the water out.
this picture just says to me that she crying. its like losing one of the family to me and be sad to see it go, pablo keeps saying to me that we are moving on to bigger better things but its like your first pet when it pass's away yes it can be replaced but its not the original

RIP herbie you gave us some great times:auto:

I know exactly what you mean Bart, I felt exactly the same at knockhill when I asked my engine for just the one lap in the final whilst on its death bed ... hard to explain emotions like that.

Remember the good times and use it as energy to make the next one better

Bring on 2010 !!

Gerry H · Post by **Gerry H** » Tue Oct 13, 2009 9:58 pm

Funny how a lump of tin can seem to have a soul.

On the other hand, I had an Austin 1300GT once and swear the thing was posessed and did things, like breaking down at the worst possible moment, out of spite.