San Antonio

Thats awesome! Ive seen those on tv and theyre super fast

 

Yes, so imagine that on a 3/8 mile oval. that means the straight aren't even 1/8 barely!
We saw flames, tire smoke, lots of noise, then nothing.....until the smoke cleared.
Him planted at turn 2, facing the other way!

Doug Rose died a while back, but his wife kept the Mamba alive for a while. Great story, and hard to believe that people would do this stuff for a few bucks. Check it out next stormy night!

 

I'll never regret wasting that money and time. Never. And I did finish my only race at Highway 16 exhausted and on fire! You can't fake those experiences.

 

And we finally get some rain! but, with a high of 65 tomorrow, guess who is going to be mowing!

 

You sure that's not Napoleon Dynamite?

Reminds of a project my grandfather had. He was an aviation mech in the Air Force. Somehow he managed to get hold of an entire engine from an F4 and he strapped it to a junk jet boat. He took it to Canyon Lake and ran it ONCE because apparently at idle it would do around 70mph. He ran it all over the lake and had to wait for it to run out of fuel to stop it.

My dad has an old Polaroid of it somewhere, I'll see if I can get him to take a picture of it and send it to me. It looks exactly like you're imaging: a massive turbine slapped into a tiny boat.

 

Napoleon's grand dad maybe!

Yes, after the Korean War, and then fueled by Vietnam surplus, F4 and Westinghouse jets were surprisingly available and affordable. If I remember the Green Mamba story correctly, he got it for around $2K - of course, that's 60's money, but still.
The hard part truly was stopping the dam things! Doug lost both lower legs for that reason.
Find the Green Mamba story, you'd love it.

 

And @hoverlover , @BassAckwards , here is a simpler version of a longer story. Has everything you need to know though!

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...crash-age-80&usg=AOvVaw1xwX1yvbzGgc5dRqMhE_KM

 

And, life marches on... Son #2 just told me "maybe" he graduates Friday 17, not Sunday 19.
So, those reservations done before are out the window, and I hope it rains like heck on Saturday while I redo it all!
Still won't be home for ATX C&C though.

 

I was so happy my dad traveled halfway across the country for both my graduations

 

We'll get there bud! Hoboken for the BA from Stevens Institute



Masters at Mizzou? - maybe my wife will make sure I got my eyes open!

We ARE very proud of him, he works his ass off.

I didn't make my folks very proud in HS, but when I finally got a BS a decade later, I made sure I did.

edit - crap BA got me through life@!

 

My dad was at my high school and OSUT graduations. He was super proud, both times. He kept giving me crap for my uniform being messed up after OSUT graduation. Damn senior NCOs lol

 

Ditto. Seeing my folks in California when I graduated boot meant a lot.

 

Maybe, time goes on, and I might be at your kids grads (if not too far away!)

 

You guys giving me eye allergies! Have to get a tissue and a drink.

 

Watching your kids graduate is probably one of the biggest joys in ones life. You know you've led them in the right direction. I hope to be there one day, still many years away though.

How's everyone doing tonight?

 

Doing great Danny - this light rain we getting won't stop the mower tomorrow, and this grad stuff is really making me feel good. Three times this week I have had conversations with people that are my age/half my age/ almost half their age.
Makes me feel pretty damn good!

 

if I can drive to SA for one of yours, I will be a happy guy indeed!

 

Allergies are brutal, they always seem to hit me during Ole Yeller, the Lion King, Where the Red Fern Grows, Moana... Any Disney movie really, sunrises, sunsets, weddings, divorces, fishing trips, Thanksgiving, shaving... You get the idea, it's best to just best drink them away.

 

Awesome, good to hear. Yup this rain just won't let up. Hopefully I can do my lawn on Monday when i get up. My mower likes to give me a hard time when the grass is long, I guess it being about 15 years old, it'll do that, but it has treated me well up till now, still starts at the first pull.

 

Hey Danny, how are you doing? Staying out of the storms?