So, anyway, all you people who didn't come missed out on a really fun meet!
Shop night on Friday was cool... we didn't do all the stuff we all hoped we would, but it was fun to ride around in each others' cars and grill food. I think I have whiplash from riding in Matt's car.
We didn't get to race, though... Beaver Bob decided to pull the plug on the test day just as the rain stopped, after letting us wait for like three hours...
We did get two BeaverBucks each for our trouble, though. And Jeff and Jon of MSR raffled off a CES up-pipe. Guess who won.
This isn't a very good picture, but it'll do for the moment. I'll take better pictures when I do the installation:
http://www.graphics.cornell.edu/~v/pics/uppipe.jpg
Instead of racing, we just poked around each others' cars, had lunch together, and then us Legacy guys gathered back at Matt's to just chill until it got dark and we realized we should have already left.
Even though we didn't race, it was still a lot of fun. I finally got to meet evolutionmovement and creel in person, which was especially cool, as well as the other people who came. And I really enjoyed meeting Jeff and Jon; they're cool guys. Jeff taught me a bit about Subaru exhausts and ECUs over lunch.
I have to say I also had fun just driving all in a line from place to place (as long as the person leading was being sensible). It just felt pretty cool. I wonder how many people we went past realized what they were seeing.
Thanks for organizing the whole event, Matt, and for your hospitality.
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