Texas BBQ

[cward]

Big Thanks to Glenn and Mary for being hosts again for the Texas Gathering. Of course, thanks to Corey as well for opening up his shop and letting the BS flow from all of us old timers. Very good crowd attended. North Texas (Dallas) was well represented with Gary James riding down with Marc Randolph in Marc's Black/Grey 91. Misled was there without the Turk, of course. I don't think the Turk has run in at least 10 years. Last time I saw it run was at the Texas BBQ at the hanger in 1998 (I think). Will brought his beautiful TT 385. Sanja drove his 90 415 to leave it with Corey for a few minor fixes. Richard drove his Red 92. Bob pulled his Black 95 385 out of retirement and drove it. Amazing. Dewey was there but not driving his 93. Glenn drove his Turk 91. I am terrible on names, young man from Brownwood, TX drove his Green 91. Jerry Downey came down from OK in his Turbo 95 LT1 auto. He was kind enough to let me try it out. Way Kool. On about 12 lbs boost it had a very nice kick. I would guess that it would come pretty close to staying up with a lightly modded Z and would walk on a stock Z. I would have loved to have driven it at the drags but they still had it on the dyno at 9 Fri night. After driving it, I tried to convince Will that I needed to drive his for a boosted car comparison. :-) Somehow Will failed to see my point of view. Maybe it was because of all the drool whenever I looked at his car. Michael (San Antonio) drove his 91 to Corey's but had go and didn't get to come out to Glenn's. Lee Sikes was there also. And others that my old brain can't recall. Sorry, CRS you know. Oh, Arnold was driving his 09 modded Z06 that ran 190+ at Texas Mile a couple of weeks ago. Sounded really strong. There were other Corvettes there that I just can't remember. Oh, of course, the Yellow Z from MD. Jim and David. They didn't know me so I got to lay some BS on them. :-) Paul Dehnert made it after getting stuck in Denver (3' of snow). Great time to rehash old times and make new friends. Weather was terrific. High 70's sunshine. Glenn and Mary laid out the Texas BBQ and opened up their home and garage for all. We all still are amazed that Glenn's 67 BB is still just sitting in the back of his garage. I think it is his 401K except better. I didn't go to the drags Fri. I was going if Jerry got his running right but stayed at home to rest up for the Sat goings on. Great time. Missed not seeing Tony and Toby but there is always next year.

[carter200]

Curtis,
The gentleman from Brownwood with the 91 Green Z (the BEAST) with the Corey "500" package is Russell Farrow. He is the owner of the "Sectionhand Steak House" in Brownwood, TX. Best steakhouse in central Texas, for sure! Hell, probably the whole state.

[gbrtng]

Curtis, you have almost total recall - thanks. One other was Guy from Houston who drove in with a yellow Hertz C6. Guy has a very early 90 (very), and was one of the attendees at Thunder at Stillwater. Later Saturday night we held the ultimate Chinese fire drill trying to fix one of Richard's flat tires - succeeded. Pics to be posted later by David, I hope. Sort of a theme on a bad Polish lightbulb joke ... And Jim from Houston left his black 95 home again.

Thanks to everyone who chipped in and made this one of the most memorable events!

And, twin turbo LT5s are coming closer to completion; Jerry's bringing #1 to Corey's for a final tune in a week.

[RUSSELL]

Many thanks to Glenn and Mary for the wonderful food and the patience
to put up with every bodies BS and Corey for letting us take over his shop for the day. Can't wait to go next year all ready told the wife I was going for the whole weekend. Will be taking my Z back to Corey's for more modding thinking 368 or 385 with mild cams. Was nice to finally be able to put some faces to the names on the forum.



Russell
91 # 1501 GREEN MONSTER

[QB93Z]

David and I got back to Maryland on Tuesday evening.

I want to repeat all the above. It was a thrill to meet so many wonderful ZR-1 folks. I cannot think of a nicer bunch of people.

Thank you to Glenn and Mary for hosting this event, and for putting us up in the "West Wing". You made us feel right at home.

Thanks Corey for letting us habg out at your shop and takng the time to tell us about your projects.

Here are some pictures from Corey's:

http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp152/QB93Z/2009%20Oct%20Texas%20Trip/DSC02789.jpg

http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp152/QB93Z/2009%20Oct%20Texas%20Trip/DSC02796.jpg

http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp152/QB93Z/2009%20Oct%20Texas%20Trip/DSC02795.jpg

http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp152/QB93Z/2009%20Oct%20Texas%20Trip/DSC02798.jpg


http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp152/QB93Z/2009%20Oct%20Texas%20Trip/DSC02787.jpg

Jim

[QB93Z]

Here are some more pictures of the group out at Glenn and Mary's:

http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp152/QB93Z/2009%20Oct%20Texas%20Trip/DSC02799.jpg

http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp152/QB93Z/2009%20Oct%20Texas%20Trip/DSC02805.jpg

http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp152/QB93Z/2009%20Oct%20Texas%20Trip/DSC02811.jpg

http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp152/QB93Z/2009%20Oct%20Texas%20Trip/DSC02815.jpg

http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp152/QB93Z/2009%20Oct%20Texas%20Trip/DSC02824.jpg

And here is a picture of ZR-1 owners trying to put air in a tire:

http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp152/QB93Z/2009%20Oct%20Texas%20Trip/DSC02820.jpg

(The tire had a leak caused by a wheel weight being attached to the rim. It took a joint effort to remove the weight without scratching the rim.)

There are more pictures in my thread about the whole trip:

http://www.zr1netregistry.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10090

Jim