1st annual SO CAL Turkey Trot

[So Cal Mark]

he was wearing running shoes

[mdrburchette]

LOL! Good one, Mark.

[spiderrey]

now, back to the where would you mount a fuel pump that big? ,,,,,,,, man, theres so much that could be said here. but ill stop/.

[Danno]

I don't know why you guys like that fuel pump. It blows.

[cecat]

I need to check this site more often, my brother and I would have gone on the run. Ace where were you? We could have went in trail to the run. Next time I will be there.

Late
George

[ventura ace]

I was there, George! It was a good day, and we ran the cars hard on some of the twisties. Yep, wish you and your brother had been there with your spiders!

It was great seeing some new faces, and seeing the work they had been putting into their projects. Carlos (Mr. fuel pump) and his brother Jesse where in the green spider with the fancy wheels. The main supply fuel hard line was plugged up, so Mark helped him swap things around to use the fuel return line for the supply (just for temporary). His car is really looking good, and drives great, even when penalized with a make-do fuel line.

Eduardo (and son Jesse?) had a red spider that he's only been working on for 2 months, with the biggest part of that time taking things apart for a super looking fresh coat of red paint and putting it back together again. You gotta wear earplugs if you drive behind his car!!

The burgandy spider was brand new to (sorry, the name escapes me!), who is just in the starting stages of restoring his car, too. He had some challenges with very little power going up the hills, but ran great on the flats and the downhill. Seems like the problem was with the fuel injection system.

Eladio, his wife, and 2 little girls were in the blue '73 spider with a 1438cc engine. How it got that combination, we don't know, but the car ran great!

Mark was accompanied by one of his soccer buddies, Kim. She was a good sport to put up with all of us for the day. I understand that she's been driving an X1/9 around all summer.

Rey met us for coffee in the morning, and gave us the bad news that he was having brake issues in both his '70 spider and his '74 X, so he couldn't risk driving and having a potential disaster. He took some good pictures, as did Eladio

The drive was fantastic, with parts of it just twisting back and forth along the crest of the mountains. It was a very popular route for several groups of motorcycles that we met along the way. The spiders were handling the curves so well that we literally had to slow down to keep from running over a few of the bikers (OK, they weren't all that experienced at it, I suppose). Looking forward to doing this run again in the spring!

Thanks for putting it together, Mark!

Alvon

[So Cal Mark]

I was glad to arrange it, after taking that drive I knew everyone would enjoy it.
George, I posted the info about the run on 3 different sites since I know you don't visit here often.
We're tentatively planning the next outing for late January, so get your cars ready

[Danno]

bump to see if you found anything out about those wheel adapter/spacers?

[So Cal Mark]

yes, just haven't posted yet! Carlos had his custom made and cost him about $300. I talked with a supplier yesterday that will make them for $75 each. Carlos is switching wheels on his Spider and I think he'll sell the adapters for the price he paid. He's coming by later today so I can confirm details with him

[Danno]

That's a little steeper than the unofficial quotes I'd been running into. Most were saying things like <200 for a set. or <120 for a pair.......

[So Cal Mark]

Ernesto brought by some pics from the run today. Here's a pic of my Spider