I'm a Stingray , that makes me a Bottom feeder.....
I work wierd hours and surf when I can....the Bad hair comes and goes.....
Swied from San Diego gave me a Buckeled Surfboard...I'm working on it right now....
I want ot hear your Fast Car Stories.....
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It's especially fine for parking: since the engine is in the back, the front is quite light. So, rather than doing several manoeuvers to fit it in a very small room between two other cars, you just engage the rear, get out of the car, lift the front and pull it in. Done that a number of times...
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LOL! That must do wonders for cornering :)
I guess you drive and hope there's no headwind!
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The interior of the honda element defies space and time. Seriously.
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sure does... it's like a clown car.
About a year ago I was checking out the surf at TurnArounds in Carlsbad. It was a Friday morning about 11 am. I hear a buzz...like a swarm of bees...Here comes a Car club of exiotic cars.....Roooooar , Zooooom ,Buzzzzzz. Grrrrrrrrr......You gotta love the power......
Today I was checking out a Silver Corvette Convertible. Not sure the year...about 65-67..Stingray 427...no lug nuts....sitting next to a Stingray Fastback....in front of Mitch's Surfshop and Moreland Choppers in Solona Beach...
wish I had the camera.....I love fast cars.......
Is that the Daytona? I wish I could make a board look AND go that fast.
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Is that the Daytona? I wish I could make a board look AND go that fast.
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Not a Daytona but close...365 GT C4.....
You can build a fast board...Go for it!
XY ford falcon. The GTHO phase 3 (?) was the fastest 4 door production car in the world for a few years. Older than i am, but i'd love one, not a GTHO, that'd be way too much for me to buy, but i'd be happy just to have the standard XY with a 351ci engine. One day.
Either that or a dodge charger. Not a plastic one, a real one like bo and luke used to drive. Actually, the charger and a modern version of daisy would be pretty sweet too, don't tell my wife though......
nice thread Ray... there's a lot of correlation between custom cars and boards...
Beerfan, didn't you used to have the General as your avatar?
worst was geting busted leaving the cruise control set on my father's buick grand prix on 115 mph after one of those little trips to santa cruz in high school for a surf
S’Ray, Years ago I used to ride/race the canyons in so. cal. My buddy and I were AMA members and thought we could keep up with most. One day after a rain, taking a cyn. to the coast and ripping along but being conservative because of road silt we passed a few on the way to the top and stopped to enjoy the view. All of a sudden we hear a beehive come roaring up the cyn. when around the turn comes five Honda factory riders all from Japan. They end up stopping and we try to converse about each others’ bikes and they are taking pictures when they ask us to show them some more road. We say sure and take off and end up going faster than I wanted. When we show them the way they start to stretch out a little ahead of us and run into a line of cars headed to the beach. This bunches us up and they start to look to us to go around (through) the cars. We lay back and tell them to go ahead and they completely disappear weaving through the cars. We decide to try to keep up. WRONG! these guys were SO FAR ahead of us in skills that they are gone and we can’t keep up. We figured we would run into them at PCH. As we approach PCH, they are nowhere to be seen. We hang a minute or two checking waves when a county sheriff car and motor officer come up in a hurry. The cruiser is in full four wheel lock skid up to us and they hop out with weapons drawn. They are PISSED and start yelling face to face with us because they just got the SH^& scared out of them trying to catch up. Yelling we are going to jail when a call comes over the radio of a supposed chase up the Hwy. They are called to join and thought we were the original target. Guess who they were after? They leave us alone and split we ride away scott free (?) and make a loop back to the valley. Two hours later we run into the Japanese riders and they have no clue they are being sought after by the cops. They outran them so far they never saw them. We gave them low key directions home and never heard about them again. Bottom Line: a week and a half later I get a letter from the Judge and end up with 6 mos. suspended license and 100 hrs community service in lieu of fine. That’s when I learned that I really couldn’t ride with the pros. Same thing in surfing. This is before the advent of production of crotch rockets.
And yeah, the Chevy Stingray is STILL the coolest car ever produced!
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nice thread Ray... there's a lot of correlation between custom cars and boards...
Beerfan, didn't you used to have the General as your avatar?
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Yep!
Great storyTblank!
How about one of these.....
OK, here's some photos of the surfboard...The bottom was buckled in two places...stringer wascracked
I stripped the wax and the deck was buckled too....
Resin filler top and bottom
Power sanded top and bottom , the deck had lots of heel dents so I did some hand sanding with a pad...
Break time!
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