the sound of happiness
 

Well I am currently sat on the decking in the back yard of my Uncle's house in Red Deer Canada. This is oil and cattle country. What does that mean? It means that 2 out of 3 vehicles is a pickup truck. The sound of medium to large V8s turning lazily and bumbling by is running at about 3 a minute and everyone makes me smile. As a break a Harley goes by. I'm in petrol head heaven and I might not come back. Today I saw my first Ford Lightning 550 with a 500cu in hemi.......... :0
:-)

Conan the Lumberjack

Why does that 'sign off' cause a certain song to run through my head....

As evidence I refer you to THIS earlier post m'lud :ROFL:

Sounds great.... I watch Ax Men on TV so I'm already a lumberjack :ROFL:

I now have a mental picture of Mike putting on women's clothing and hanging about in bars!

Noooooooooooooo! Why did you have to say that :tuttut:

Now why did you have to go and say that......... You're spoiling my bottle of wine. :D

Sounds like Mike is spoiling some womens clothing!!

Let hope you're not wanting to borrow his sock

Another good day. :)
 

spent the day out yesterday with my Aunt's son in law, Tony. He does competitive slalom at clubman level here in Canadian. He has quite a sweet deal going with Scion (Toyota to you and I). To promote the marque they have a sponsorship scheme that pays money if you successfully campaign one of there cars in armature FIA approved competition. Basically as long as there are 4 entries in Tony's class (Street stock touring) then for a win he gets $C500, 2nd $C300 and 3rd $C200. In his first year he is 200 bucks up and has,t paid a penny out of his own pocket for the car or its running costs! I got to drive the track after completion of competition. Loads of fun. The really interesting bit? A late module corvette stuffed a TTRS!!!!! In fact Tony's Scion stuffed the TTRS!!!!!!!! Just proves money can't replace talent

Some photos and video here.

On the way home we dropped in to the local drag strip and blagged our way into the pits!

some photos and video here.

But the best sound of the day was heard while at the motor slalom held on a military airfield. Next to us was a firing range and all day I could hear heavy machine gun fire. Deep joy and fond memories!