How I spent my weekend...
- Thread starter SWITAWI
- Start date
ScottyDog
Adventurer
Man that's a good sized 'croaker' you got there..:Wow1:. We get a different species of croaker here on the left coast too, but but big ones like that are some what rare and too dang smart usually to catch.
SWITAWI
Doesn't Get Out Enough
Texas Mile weekend...
Went out to see the sights at the Texas Mile event in Beeville this past weekend. The Mile is a standing-start event where one vehicle at a time runs to see what speed they can achieve over the distance of a mile. The current event record around of 324mph (IIRC) was achieved several years ago by some kind Top Fuel-looking rail with no tall wing on the back. They've had several turbocharged motorcycles run in the 250s-260s in the past as well.
We'll get the obvious out of the way first...
:drool:
...and then move on to more interesting things. Like the LS9 motor in a '69 Camaro! :Wow1: Unfortunately we were so goggled by the appearance of the motor that no one took a picture of the actual car.
Lots of carbon fiber and taped seams were on hand.
You never know what you're going to see at events like this. Lovin' the Malibu Wagon who went 140-something.
Like I said, lots of interesting wheels just sitting around, waiting for their picture to be taken!
And let you tell you something... After watching/hearing two dozen bikes and cars fly down a runway at speeds ranging from 150mph to 210mph, you feel the difference when suddenly the next car goes smoking by even faster. Everybody stops in their tracks to watch it go by and you already know it's faster than everything that went before when event's speed display pops up with 244mph for the Nissan GT-R with a drag chute hanging off the back.
NOTE: Some of the pics were taken with my phone and they're the slightly overexposed ones. The rest (mostly closeups) were taken with Jeff's DSLR and the colors in those are obviously much better.
Went out to see the sights at the Texas Mile event in Beeville this past weekend. The Mile is a standing-start event where one vehicle at a time runs to see what speed they can achieve over the distance of a mile. The current event record around of 324mph (IIRC) was achieved several years ago by some kind Top Fuel-looking rail with no tall wing on the back. They've had several turbocharged motorcycles run in the 250s-260s in the past as well.
We'll get the obvious out of the way first...
:drool:
...and then move on to more interesting things. Like the LS9 motor in a '69 Camaro! :Wow1: Unfortunately we were so goggled by the appearance of the motor that no one took a picture of the actual car.
Lots of carbon fiber and taped seams were on hand.
You never know what you're going to see at events like this. Lovin' the Malibu Wagon who went 140-something.
Like I said, lots of interesting wheels just sitting around, waiting for their picture to be taken!
And let you tell you something... After watching/hearing two dozen bikes and cars fly down a runway at speeds ranging from 150mph to 210mph, you feel the difference when suddenly the next car goes smoking by even faster. Everybody stops in their tracks to watch it go by and you already know it's faster than everything that went before when event's speed display pops up with 244mph for the Nissan GT-R with a drag chute hanging off the back.
NOTE: Some of the pics were taken with my phone and they're the slightly overexposed ones. The rest (mostly closeups) were taken with Jeff's DSLR and the colors in those are obviously much better.
Last edited:
SWITAWI
Doesn't Get Out Enough
After we left the event Jeff, Matt, Elizabeth (Matt's little girl), and I went by my parents so I could plant a tree for Mom. BONUS POINTS, right? Then we loaded up my saw (because Jeff wanted to build some shelves in his garage) and headed out to see if any birds were dumb enough to fly in front of our shotguns for a bit.
We stayed until dark and headed back to New Braunfels. Then on Sunday we built shelves in Jeff's garage. I should have known my labor was part of the loan of the saw... :ylsmoke:
So it was a little-bit-of-everything kind of weekend. Even saw a pretty cool bumper sticker and very clean M101A1 along the way.
We stayed until dark and headed back to New Braunfels. Then on Sunday we built shelves in Jeff's garage. I should have known my labor was part of the loan of the saw... :ylsmoke:
So it was a little-bit-of-everything kind of weekend. Even saw a pretty cool bumper sticker and very clean M101A1 along the way.
Last edited:
SWITAWI
Doesn't Get Out Enough
Spent a couple nights around 27° 04'37.05" N, 97° 22'41.21" W. Wind was brutal but on the upside the phone signal was non-existent, lol.
The :safari-rig: driving conditions ranged from excellent...
...to 'typical' PINS beach conditions...
...to some really challenging stuff that at times did not seem to compress at all underneath the tires.
Just had to keep a steady toe on the gas pedal and maintain forward momentum without spinning the tires. Most of the time I was able to keep the speed around 15-20mph unless it started to get rough or I started to bog down a bit. (crap phone video was taken during the return trip)
Found tracks of the coyotes who were chasing mice around my tent at night. Fortunately that canine species hasn't figured out how to open an ActionPacker or Coleman cooler yet...
The :safari-rig: driving conditions ranged from excellent...
...to 'typical' PINS beach conditions...
...to some really challenging stuff that at times did not seem to compress at all underneath the tires.
Just had to keep a steady toe on the gas pedal and maintain forward momentum without spinning the tires. Most of the time I was able to keep the speed around 15-20mph unless it started to get rough or I started to bog down a bit. (crap phone video was taken during the return trip)
Found tracks of the coyotes who were chasing mice around my tent at night. Fortunately that canine species hasn't figured out how to open an ActionPacker or Coleman cooler yet...
SWITAWI
Doesn't Get Out Enough
Man, has it really been that long since I added anything here?.. Well here's a few pictures of what I've been up to. Maybe not 'expedition-grade', but more like mini-ExPo-style, lol.
And that last crappy cell phone picture was actually the full moon casting a halo one night as I was looking up through a fog. I doubt any camera would have done it justice, but I tried! :sombrero:
And that last crappy cell phone picture was actually the full moon casting a halo one night as I was looking up through a fog. I doubt any camera would have done it justice, but I tried! :sombrero: