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PacNW928 convoy gathers |
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Here are David's '90 GT, Tom's '87 S4, Adam's '87 S4 and Dennis's S4 at the meeting point just south of Portland. |
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Bob East showed up for breakfast but hadn't been feeling well and decided not to drive to Devek Days. |
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I5 Southbound |
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Keeping speeds close to the limit, it still looked great seeing 4 928's driving together. I led for the first leg then Dennis took over and I dropped to the back for some pictures. |
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Dennis, Adam and Tom with David (me) covering the rear. |
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Saturday at Devek |
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The registration tent |
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David's '90 GT (red) with Tony H's Silver S4 next to me |
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Devek starts to pack them in |
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With only limitted parking the cars start to arrange themselves on Saturday morning |
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Nice low-miles (35K?) GT was for sale and looked sharp |
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As more cars and attendees arrived we all started looking over the various cars and putting faces to names we've seen on the lists. |
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More fill-in |
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All parking is now filled one car deep. Now starting to fill in the empty space with a second row! |
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In front of Devek Bldng |
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Devek building is the beigh building on the right here. |
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The Phat 928 |
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Body kit and a fully redone interior make this car VERY interesting. More info at www.phat928.com. |
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One of the few GTS's to arrive |
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Tony H (V1UhOh) |
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Silver S4 with custom air tubes |
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Painted intakes and insulated PVC air intake tubes on Tony's silver S4. |
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The wire here is for Tony's in-car intake thermometer setup. He can measure inlet and air box temps to guage how effective his intake tube insulation is. |
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Marc Thomas of Devek |
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Welcoming talk inside the Devek garage. |
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Lucky Eckman's '89 GT on the corner scales. |
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George Suennen |
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Check out George's pictures from Devek at http://home.earthlink.net/~jorj7/devek-2001.html. |
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Under a shark |
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Marc's back to us with Lucky Eckman to the right. |
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Mark Kibort's (now EX) race car |
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Since crashed, but watch for the replacement! |
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Jim points out features under one of the cars on the lift. There were three cars on lifts at Devek. A 928, a 928S and a 928 S4 so all models could be examined. |
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The Devek "White Car" |
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6.5 liter, normally aspirated, track prep'd supper 928. |
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Fastest 928! |
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The White Car does over 200mph at the open road races. |
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Caption for the destroyed engine |
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Destroyed engine |
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2/6 rod bearing failure is NOT nice. |
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The hole from the top of the "V". |
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Example block ready for another stroker? |
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Black long block with headers |
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'89 4 speed automatic transmission |
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Belts and hoses on the 928 |
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Mark Kibort's ex-racer again |
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Dan Brindle's custom 928 cabriolet he's been restoring |
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Louis Ott gets a ride in the White Car! |
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Excited? Like a kid in a candy store! |
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Sunday Drive |
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We take OVER a McDonald's parking lot in a small, northern California town. |
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OK, who parked the SUV in *our* lot? |
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The Devek Days photo op |
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We drove up to a park where they let us in long enough for a quick photo shoot. |
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