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Hmmmm, like yesterday's thread about the weather, wondered if I should be nice and NOT post today's weather.... Nahhhh, why start being nice now?
But ya, first time the roadster's been out of the garage since well before Christmas I think. (Don't even think I've started it since then.... )
3 of 5...
Old school meets newer school. (Just liked the juxtaposition that I never noticed before.)
Eagle eyed people might notice that I have two different plates on the car. Oooops, forgot I had a front plate so didn't bother to swap it, I'm so used to not having one on any of my cars. (At least I don't think I do..... hmmm, maybe on the SL...)
But ya, had to remind myself why I have these old cars with their antiquated technology....
"Oh yeah, right, the open cockpit, 70 degree air, about a feeler gauge blade's distance between the loud pedal and the floor, the magnificent sound of 500cfm of air rushing through the v-stacks of 44mm Solexes, a perfectly executed heel-toe-barking-exhaust-note-4-3-downshift-turn-in-backend-slide-pedal-back-down-filling-space-between-foot-and-floor...Oh yeah, that's why."
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