Berzerkeley to be at $2008 Challenge

Tommy Suddard wrote:

Marjorie Suddard wrote: ^^Aren't you in school??^^ Mom

I'm on my phone, which is on the bus with me.

@ 2:19pm?

Yeah, we get out an hour early, at 1:45, every Wednesday. It's kind of weird.

Thanks Minimac for the suggestion, but GRM did cover the clown and the website a month or so ago (thank you!) but unfortunately with no response... See, the GRM staff does want me to move on (and away).

"Out of the box?" meant that when it was assembled, it worked. The actual day Minissan was completed, the writer from MiniWorld and Kit Car Magazine drove it and said it was one of the best modified Minis or kit cars he's ever driven (he travels world wide). He knew it was finished at 4am that morning since he was sleeping in our living room. That's an out of the box build. Since then I raised the car 1/2" so I could drive it more on the street. Other than that it was done, right out of the box and assembled... I apologize, I'll try to use building phrases that someone with a soldering iron background will understand. Plugged in, got hot.

Minissan took 3 years and 9 months totaling 4,000+ hours. Then the sound system was about 2 weeks and the display stand one week. I'm not sure how you're way ahead. Out of the thousands of modified Minis over the last 49 years, Minissan is considered one of the top builds. While your "fastest front-wheel-drive motorcycle powered car evarrrrrrr? " is probably the only one. Being the best in a class of one doesn't mean much to me. But then maybe you'll start a new craze.

"waiting for a government and/or corporate handout" Actually I gave up on our government when I was told that kids have to start drinking and smoking so they can have solid numbers to start with. Without solid numbers, programs can't be proven to work, so let the kids start and the government will spend hundreds of millions to try to get them to stop. Prevention programs are not funded because there is no proof in numbers. What a great government. Corporate handout? I proved as The World's Fastest Clown that no matter where I finished or even if I didn't finish, that I got some of the best media coverage of any team, including GTP cars. Wouldn't that be a formula for a sponsor? Yes, I mean no, since the clown is trying to create a drug free generation by starting in elementary schools and he's promoting to them that alcohol and tobacco are drugs, bad clown. Corporate America has to be PC on the issue because either they are directly or indirectly linked to an alcohol/tobacco company or one day they might be and don't want to take a chance of losing any precious $$$$. So, to date, the only major contribution to create a drug free generation in America was from a Japanese company, Nissan. Pretty sad America

"fulfill your life's ambition" When I feel, and have shown, that I could make a difference with thousands and thousands of kids nationwide, and then do nothing, I feel like I let that many kids down. Granted I could probably spend the rest of my days looking for misspelled words, but what's the point. I don't have any kids, I'm not looking to make a big income, so really why should I care. I guess we have different views on what a young kid deserves.

So, now I sit here wondering why we're going back and forth like the good old days of the first few Challenges. The smack back then was almost as fun as the event itself, at least it made it exciting/interesting leading up to the Challenge. But, smack doesn't work well on a car that's not going to be competing as designed. And of course there's no competition in concourse with all of my fancy shiny parts that put me way over the Challenge budget.

I was looking forward to a head to head run with the Dennymobile, it's been a few years coming. I guess future time slips will have to do...

Did anyone waste their time reading all that E36 M3? Yeah, me neither.

poopshovel wrote: Did anyone waste their time reading all that E36 M3? Yeah, me neither.

no, i was searching my Grainger catalog for a box that takes four years to get out of, so i can build my next car inside it. that way, i can thump my chest and proclaim how well my car worked right out of the box.

It's on the page after the soldering irons, "Plug em in and getem hott"

Do we have a sad clown? Or a clown with an attitude? Maybe just a tired, stressed out clown

Yeah, it's all about the Benjamins. EtOH, tobacco, and other legal drugs won't be seriously discouraged because too many people are making money from them. Humm, the next President of the United States of America is married to one of the biggest EtOH pushers in the country. The socialist looser he is running against is addicted to tobacco and whatever else they put in those cigarettes. How many of the congress critters own stock in big tobacco? All of them? Don't even get started on illegal drugs. Talk about big money on both sides of the law there.

Take a break, clown. Keep up the good work on the rug-rats. I'd love to see your car in person. Maybe you should come to our next English car show (Brits in the Ozarks)? Tim and BS Levy have been here and had a good time. We have a "race and modified" class that your car will fit in. This year we had a home built Maserati Birdcage with a 71 Maserati V8 and a Lister body clone.

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