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Planes, Claims, and Rotorheads
Carl and I had a blast at Sevenstock, and drooled all over the go-fast parts for sale so plentiful around us. But through the touring of the vendor's boothes at Sevenstock as well as Racing Beat's facilities the next day, neither of us thought it very practical to try to bring anything very large back home with us - despite RB's having practically given some things away. I mean - we never even discussed it as a possibility!
Old geezers we are, I swear. So here I am at 7:00 AM Monday in the last building I'll be in Ca. for a long time; LAX. I'm at a kiosk at the counter trying to get it to recognize me by my credit card, in order to get my boarding pass. It won't, which means I have to wait in line and ultimately talk with a ticket clerk. I don't mind waiting like everyone else, but where I'm from, it's just downright hell to have to deal with anyone on a Monday morning who hates their job, makes very little money, and knows they have you by the nutz and can make you taste the bitterness of their life by further complicating yours if they even think you're fresh-talking them. Better roll my eyes now before I get up there and she sees me do it, cause you all know me- I'm gonna do it! I get up behind two guys...Frick and Frack, I presume. Two highly caffinated young men who are feverishly wrapping a gigantic "something-or-other" in efforts to get it to pass the visual-appeal criteria relegating the thing from "special frieght required" down to "baggage". I'm thinking, "Man. These guys are gonna get this woman nice and pissed off for me when I get up there!" :rolleyes: Well, I'm watching this, and the woman is being VERY nice and very helpful. She's helping the boys wrap this "thing", and as I stand observing, bewildered by her good manors and patience, I'm stunned even further by another woman (employee) who walks up behind me just to assist me with my needs at the kiosk (ATM-looking ticket spitter-outter). She also is just sooo nice! (How down-right refreshing!) Both women are in their forties; perhaps seasoned vets having born witness to much more bizarre things. Well all this is happening in my uncaffinated Monday morning mind, and I discover that these guys are taping up the cardboard on a muffler! -It's a "score"; real cheap from Racing Beat's "Come buy our shit, dude!" open-house the day before. My immediate thought was... Is this not the kind of thing you hide a thermo-nuclear device in?...I mean really! With my luck, "security-colonel Bubba" would have me in a dimly lit room searching my "cavity" while speaking Arabic in an effort to trick me into saying something incriminating while a bomb-squad-HazMat team dressed in Kevlar bio-hazard zuit-suits complete with facial shields and welding goggles are plasma-cutting my damn Racing Beat muffler to bits! Turns out I've run into shm21284-guy, and gtorx7-guy from this forum! I've run into Carl and myself about 20 years ago. Somehow, instantaniously these guys went from "Frick" and "Frack" in my mind, to enthusiastic younger versions of myself just because they were trying to stuff a car part into a box that was half the size it needed to be and check it as baggage on a cross-country flight in a day and age when they make you take your shoes off so they can x-ray them! But when I realized they were ROTORHEADS, well, that's when I knew this was a story worth telling everyone, and one I'll never forget! The ultimate line of our dialogue?... "We were gonna cut a hole in his duffle bag so it would fit, but we figured it would look kinda suspiscious." :rlaugh: I introduced myself (I was wearing my Rotorfest tee shirt, also.) with a promise to tell the story on the forum and only today did I get a PM reminding me of their names. I told him to PM me because I keep forgetting who's who. I keep fogetting who's who because I'm getting old. Maybe I'm getting old because I stopped doing things like what gtorx7-guy and shm21284-guy did. ;) |
haha good story, thanks for posting
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I'll have to start calling them frick and frack now :) Which one is which though? I would have been with them there but I'm leaving for college in a couple weeks and I needed to save $ :(
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Nice!
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Cool!!
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Damn, I've gotta go down next year and try to smuggle an entire RB exhaust and clutch kit up to CANADA on the way back :P
"Is that an RB Presilencer in your pants or are you just happy to see me?" Jon |
Ya know what Dennis? Doing this kinda shit (going 3000 miles to look at some cars, meeting a good friend for the first time along the way, and meeting some previous acquaintences and some new buddies ), and doing this whole crazy thing we do over these cars is what makes me feel like Im still 20 years old, trying to smuggle RB exhaust systems into my checked baggage. :D This shit keeps me young, energetic, and hungry for knoweledge. It doesnt get any better than this. :beerchug:
I expect to see you down here next year. No sunburn this time and no endless walking though. |
that's a good story to share.
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Cool story thanks for sharing Sterling!
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Good job guys, sounds like a good time. I wish this old guy could have come. Thanks for sharing.:)
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Originally Posted by coldy13
I'll have to start calling them frick and frack now :) Which one is which though? I would have been with them there but I'm leaving for college in a couple weeks and I needed to save $ :(
They are a pair of exemplory rotorheads. - Rotorheads that just truely love their cars. Carl, you bet I'll be down! I'll drive down to Tom's and camp out in his yard, spend a day helping him dial in his carb and eat boar meat and such (and drink beer), and then head down to you and the Mrs' house. :) -Now if I can incorporate bringing my wife and daughter and time it so that we vacation on the beach for a week, then I can do it all guilt-free! :p: |
Nice story there Mr Sterling!
Wish i wasnt 7000 miles way... |
Originally Posted by Sterling
No, Coldy. Don't call them that! :p:
They are a pair of exemplory rotorheads. - Rotorheads that just truely love their cars. Carl, you bet I'll be down! I'll drive down to Tom's and camp out in his yard, spend a day helping him dial in his carb and eat boar meat and such (and drink beer), and then head down to you and the Mrs' house. :) -Now if I can incorporate bringing my wife and daughter and time it so that we vacation on the beach for a week, then I can do it all guilt-free! :p: |
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Rumor has Seven Stock all finished, and due to the outpouring of sheer ungreatfulness by certain fd & fc owners, Rotor Fest is no more, as well. So for a whole week in June 05 we should all just "show up" at Carl's house! I'll make the banner..."Banana Stock"! :rlaugh: -Camp out in his yard, get some bands to play, lots of beer, fly wackyracer out to grill for us, rev engines all day & night, have burnout competitions in front of Carl's house, drag races down his street...:D |
Banana stock? Sounds good. I'd be tempted to subject myself to the long ass drive in my shit-brown beast just for that one. June is before hurricane season, right? ;)
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Sure! Y'all come on down to O-town!!!!!!! :D My neighbors will love it. :rolleyes:
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We can help you turn your neighborhood to a rotaryhood. :D damn. now I got images of mr rogers (god rest his soul) in my head. :eek:
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Let's find a track to hold an event. Nobody would bitch about lighting up the tires there!
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I was taking the muffler in my duffle bag for gtorx7, he didnt have a bag big enough.
I remember sitting on the plane waiting to be released from the gate and i was watching the baggage guys load the bags on the conveyer belt. Then i saw mine, and you know how these guys haphazardly toss the bags onto the belt? well this one made a huge bang sound you could hear loudly from inside the plane!! If anyone is thinking about buying an RSR muffler, DO IT!!! It withstood airport security and baggage loading!! Barely got dented! Now i know its going to withstand the abuse from a rotary! They should offer a lifetime warrenty on those. |
bannana stock sounds good, haha....
Hopefully there will be something next year, I have been wanting to come out and play, but my 80 is barely on its way to being finished in the next two months... :( How the hell did they let you guys on the plane with a muffler ?!?!!!!!!! Whats an RSR muffler anyways? |
Originally Posted by shm21284
I was taking the muffler in my duffle bag for gtorx7, he didnt have a bag big enough.
I remember sitting on the plane waiting to be released from the gate and i was watching the baggage guys load the bags on the conveyer belt. Then i saw mine, and you know how these guys haphazardly toss the bags onto the belt? well this one made a huge bang sound you could hear loudly from inside the plane!! If anyone is thinking about buying an RSR muffler, DO IT!!! It withstood airport security and baggage loading!! Barely got dented! Now i know its going to withstand the abuse from a rotary! They should offer a lifetime warrenty on those. |
The security guys sent the bag through the xray maching, and when it came out, they pulled it over to the table to inspect it. They had a suspicious look on their face. As soon as they unzipped the bag, all the security personell laughed their asses off! Then they looked at me, smiled, and okayed it to go on the plane. Gotta love it.
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Yes, I am frack in this pair... the guy who was told to take the oil baffle out of his backpack and the oil regulator out of his pocket. Airport security just won't let you have fun anymore.
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LOL this is so funny looking back on it... i didnt even realize it during the time because i was so damn tired. Thats what staying up all night destroying a rental car does to you (6000 rpm neutral drops, riding the e-brake the whole trip, flat spotting the rear tires, destroying the brake drums, etc)
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I had a RB power pulse filter assembly in my carryon. Went right thru the x ray no problem. Didnt even as k me to open the bag.
Last time I flew home from Newark I had a chrome alt case and fan for a 68 Camaro. Almost missed my flight waiting for them to decide whether it was some sort of weapon or not. :ret: |
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