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Roadster Drive today 11-1-19
NICE crisp day for a short drive in the Snoqualmie Valley. 80 miles.
Waited till 1 when it had warmed up to the mid 40's.

Ted

DROVE to our Seattle area Datsun Club Meeting. 11-2-19

Great NWDE meeting today.
Sunny and fairly warm. 18 members and 10 Datsuns.
7 roadsters, 2 trucks and a 510.
Nominated or carry over officers for 2020 were.
President. Ted H
Vice President. Dan R
Treasure. Steve C.
Secretary. Current Secretary, Don A, wanted to allow some other member to enjoy all the joys of being Secretary.
Bre Goss and Julie Harms were nominated for Co-Secretaries.
If any Club member wants to step up and be an officer, nominate yourself for any position.
We will vote for new 2020 officers at the December Meeting.

Alan brought a few of his large collection of NOS roadster parts to sell.
Prices were VERY reasonable. See what you miss if you do not come!

Steve drove his newly painted and chromed 62 320. Well done Steve.

The short drive after the meeting with Dan, John V, Ted and Ted Jr started well but close to Enumclaw
Ted Jr's roadster alternator gave up. No charging and battery voltage about 11.2 volts.
The roadster has one of the small glass mat batteries and its storage potential did not seem great.
We all turned back to escort him home. About 15 miles back to his place.
Near home it was cutting out. Made it into the garage and it died with voltage reading 7.9.

Ted

Roadster Drive Today 11-4-19.
To Index in the Cascades foothills. 110 miles
Another nice day so had to drive.
Our back roads route to Index ending on Reiter road.

Ted

Last weekend I drove two roadsters. Took mine through the foothills and Calero Reservoir. Took the Side-Pipe car out as well!





Back to being a 1-roadster guy again

How much downforce does the open trunk spoiler give you

$55,000 64 1500 3 seat roadster drive today. 11-13-19. 112 miles.
North along the Cascade foothills to Granite Falls.
Since Steve T sold his 64 1500 on BAT for $50,000 we have a new benchmark value.
I know that 64. Mine is better. I added $5,000. .

Ted

On Sunday I drove 220 miles with 6 other roadsters for a tour of the North Bay:
https://www.zcarblog.com/2019/11/17/fea ... 17-19.html

I drove mine up and down the street, clearly running poorly... its leaving the garage tomorrow to get that fixed

Roadster Drive Today. 11-21-19. 5 hrs. 125 miles.
Sunny cold day. Have to drive when the weather is good.
Waited till noon when it had warmed to 40*. Heater was ON.
North along the Cascade Foothills to Granite Falls.

Ted

After a solid week of rain we got a break! Drove to local foothills and back home. More rain coming but next weekend looking good!

DROVE to Mt. Umunhum with Rob in SRL-0248. It was cold at the top!







Roadster Sounds:

I was at Opa's yesterday having lunch with the family and I saw/ heard you drive by. My family laughed when I said, "I know him!" lol

2mAn wrote: ↑Fri Dec 27, 2019 9:25 pm I was at Opa's yesterday having lunch with the family and I saw/ heard you drive by. My family laughed when I said, "I know him!" lol

Simon that's cool!
I Googled Opa's and sure enough that's where I turned to meet Rob and his roadster.

Next time you are in town and need a roadster fix hit me up!

Alvin wrote: ↑Fri Dec 27, 2019 11:12 pm
Next time you are in town and need a roadster fix hit me up!

Hopefully I’ll have the Roadster in town next time and your shop can dyno my car and we can add a third Roadster to the hillclimb!

I got to DRIVE Spike over the Christmas break!!


You can see my driving impressions here:
viewtopic.php?f=27&t=15306&p=301542#p301542