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Ron in SoCal
10-07-2012, 12:18 PM
Pretty quiet, so I'll start!

Went to El Toro yesterday for the morning session. Looked like some early timing issues on the AutoX and then they were off. First session everyone got plenty of runs, so much so the course went unused for a while at multiple times. I'm not sure the real time track update was working properly?

It looked like they were running three cars on the big track at various times but I could be wrong. From what I could see I really liked the layout compared to earlier in the year. IMHO, the inagural RTTC had the best twisty road course.

Speed stop squared...no x-mas tree. Course set up was different than last March. At the drivers meeting they explained that you would start facing opposite direction away from each other. Safety and city compliance was the reason given. Before lunch I went over to watch the second run group and only one side was used for times, the other for untimed practice runs.

Weather was perfect - mid 70s! A little bit of mechanical carnage, nothing major that I saw. About 35 cars maybe across all events. Attitude was casual, everyone was friendly and lots of smiles all around! It looked like you got as many runs as you wanted which seemed to be a great value for the day.

Props to Matt A, the artist formerly known as MSA69, for the AutoX demonstration. I have new found respect for the late model stang. Oh, hes not a bad driver either...:lol: :cheers:

Brett was peddling around on a 50s girls biike which was not only cool, but a real attention getter/conversation piece. :thumbsup:

Great cars, great people, great attitudes, great weather, LOTS of media...what more could you want? :lateral:

Link to pics:

http://americanstreetcarseries.com/return-to-the-coast-pictures/

There's also a pic thread on the other site...
GregWeld
10-07-2012, 05:10 PM
It's not fun because I'm not there!


:rofl:
Ron in SoCal
10-07-2012, 05:20 PM
Ha...no wonder they had timing problems at the AutoX...:lol:
Flash68
10-07-2012, 05:59 PM
Brett was peddling around on a 50s girls biike which was not only cool, but a real attention getter/conversation piece. :thumbsup:



Let's see this! :theresa:
Ron in SoCal
10-07-2012, 07:01 PM
Well, technically I mis-spoke. It started life w parts from a girl's bike and Brett welded it up. That's the story I heard anyway. Lots of patina on it for sure...
67zo6Camaro
10-07-2012, 07:25 PM
Well, technically I mis-spoke. It started life w parts from a girl's bike and Brett welded it up. That's the story I heard anyway. Lots of patina on it for sure...

Dude, Im losing respect for you. You are not even close... did you even have a bike when you were a kid?

Come on, a girls bike. based on that comment Im not even sure if you looked at the bike. :willy: :willy:
Flash68
10-07-2012, 07:28 PM
:rofl: :rofl:

Come on Brett - shows us the goods.
FETorino
10-07-2012, 08:26 PM
Dude, Im losing respect for you. You are not even close... did you even have a bike when you were a kid?

Come on, a girls bike. based on that comment Im not even sure if you looked at the bike. :willy: :willy:

Funny I didn't notice your bike but your sons SS with the flip flop hub and deep V track style wheel set with checkerboard rims looked pretty cool.:cool:

:cheers:
GregWeld
10-07-2012, 08:39 PM
It didn't happen unless there's pixs!!






:ttiwop:
Ron in SoCal
10-07-2012, 09:04 PM
Dude, Im losing respect for you. You are not even close... did you even have a bike when you were a kid?

Come on, a girls bike. based on that comment Im not even sure if you looked at the bike. :willy: :willy:

That would imply you had respect in the first place...:lol: (kidding chief!)

Did you not say you welded some parts from another girl's donor when we had the eBay conversation with the other collectors?
Richio1
10-07-2012, 09:08 PM
It didn't happen unless there's pixs!!






:ttiwop:

Yeah... let see em. I saw the updates on Facebook but would like more inside play by play.
Tom.A
10-07-2012, 09:30 PM
I made it Today and ran some. I think the guy's at American Street Car are doing a good job along with the guy's at Orange County Racecraft :thumbsup:

Also thanks to Brett and Matt for help with shocks/pointers and Mike Norris for trying to help me while down on a cylinder.
intocarss
10-07-2012, 10:05 PM
Dude, Im losing respect for you. You are not even close... did you even have a bike when you were a kid?

Come on, a girls bike. based on that comment Im not even sure if you looked at the bike. :willy: :willy:

I think Ron's just mad cuz you wouldn't let him ride it
Matt@BOS
10-08-2012, 09:00 AM
I made it Today and ran some. I think the guy's at American Street Car are doing a good job along with the guy's at Orange County Racecraft :thumbsup:

Also thanks to Brett and Matt for help with shocks/pointers and Mike Norris for trying to help me while down on a cylinder.

No, thank you for letting Brett and I get a few laps behind the wheel of your Chevelle! I keep saying that it is one of the coolest cars out there, and I don't think you should change a whole lot about it. After taking it for a spin I stand by my previous statement. Hope you can track down that electrical issue without too much problem.

Matt
Tom.A
10-08-2012, 09:18 PM
No, thank you for letting Brett and I get a few laps behind the wheel of your Chevelle! I keep saying that it is one of the coolest cars out there, and I don't think you should change a whole lot about it. After taking it for a spin I stand by my previous statement. Hope you can track down that electrical issue without too much problem.

Matt

Thanks Matt, It was good to get input from you guy's. I think the shock adjustment picked up my time by ~1.3 seconds which was nice:thumbsup:
I wished I would have started earlier with you guy's tweaking as I think there was more. I also think running both days (on 8 cylinders) would have been a plus.
efs69
10-11-2012, 02:54 PM
Props to Mike Norris who came out to help me at home with my car. Stand up guy! I wish I could have had it running for this.
tazzz2_ca
10-12-2012, 02:27 PM
Props to Mike Norris who came out to help me at home with my car. Stand up guy! I wish I could have had it running for this.

Agreed Mike sure is a stand up guy and a big asset to this community....
Rod P
10-13-2012, 11:41 PM
Return to the Coast
day1 in the morning was a little scattered after the pictures at 9am but all the tracks had timers running by 11:00am or so and I ran the big track 15 laps (3 sessions) and ran the autocross for 8 timed runs and 3 untimed runs

day 2 I ran the big track for 8 laps(2 sessions) and the autocross for 19 timed laps, 9 of those times around the autocross were in my designated 1.5 hour time then I ran the stop start challenge a few times and then went back to the autocross, even Brian Finch noticed that I was spending the day at the autocross giving rides at everyone, he just stopped me and was laughing about it and just said to behave myself

I think most drivers had plenty of seat time, I will tell you that I burned thru a set of almost new tires in just the 2 days, that was a lot of driving

Thanks to Bill, Brian, and Yancy for putting on another good event, It was great to see everyone again, fantastic to meet many more people:thumbsup: