This was supposed to be a short day and started out with some great weather and nice road... and a walk through the Redwood Forest.. then we had a bit of a disaster as one of the cars blew it's engine while passing a truck loaded with hay.. there was a loud novice and huge cloud of smoke and nothing.. over to the side, and it looks like a rod blew out the back of the block on Don's 998. We managed to call AAA who arranged for a truck to pick up the car, and it will be delivered to O2 Motorsports in Redding in the next day or two.
We loaded Don and his wife's luggage into the trailer, and Don in my car, his wife with Jerry and off we went to the Samoa Cook house for lunch
Yes i was there as well.. hard to get in the shot when you are taking it!
, and then onto Redding... running into traffic issues with one lane closures due to construction.. but some great curvy roads once we got moving..along the way about an hour from Redding Jame's car dies.. This turns out to be the fuse for the fuel pump, but the pump seems to be getting hot.. did I mention that it is 34 degrees Celsius (94 f) .. We also stop as there is a forest fire and the helicopters are pulling buckets of water out of the lake near the highway..after a few stops and starts the car seems to run fine until we arrive, very late in Redding.. we never made it to Fat Boys, but a few of us dropped into O2 and they were loading up the cars for tomorrows trip..
Photos here
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| 2011-06-20 |
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