I was amazed that my little air cooled machine was able to 
more or less keep up to Frank Condelli and Joel Cort, each of 
whom's rides had roughly 50% more horsepower than Pokey.

Regretably, most of the credit has to go to the Air Cooled 
Beetles the two of them were stuck behind. It kept them from 
opening up. That said, I was very pleased to completely leave 
the 1980 westy completely in the dust, no doubt my wider 
lower profile Michelin Agilis 51's (216/65-15 vs. 185/82-14) 
had a lot to do with it.

We are already talking about next year, I'd recomend anyone 
within a day's drive of the area come out next year. The 
track time was a hoot, and Watkins Glen State Park is a 
beautiful camping destination (photos on my website in about 
two weeks).

Thanks,
Chris

---- Original message ----
>Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 07:08:14 EDT
>From: Frank Condelli <RAlanen@aol.com>  
>Subject: Transporters at the Glen report  
>To: vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com
>
>       Back from the Glen without any problems.  Yahoo !  
Got in around 8 pm 
>after a splendid week end of camping in Watkins Glen State 
Park.  Saturday 
>hike through the Watkins Glen Gorge and a wine tasting 
tour.  Sunday the 12 
>or 15 Westys caravaned over to the race track for some "fast 
laps".  We were 
>allowed one hour of track time which went by all too fast.  
We were to follow 
>the track pace car and no passing.  Joel did you know 
that ?  I got passed by 
>Joel in the big downhill bowl while slowing down for a green 
beetle that was 
>slowing and then finally stopped ??  Ran out of gas we found 
out later, opps 
>!  Anywhos, Joel passes me at this point so I get on his 
tail and pushed him 
>around for a few laps !  What a hoot.  Pots and pans and 
beer in the fridge 
>banging and clanging !  Next year I'm bringing my full race 
Vanagon with the 
>VR6 in it !  I'll show those Finger Lake guys and gals.
>       Those of you who did not show up sure missed a great 
event in a super 
>fine location.  Thanks to Joel Cort from Rochester and the 
FLVWC for 
>organising this event and I'll be back next year if you keep 
on with this 
>event.  But PLEASE, PLEASE lets separate the vans from those 
slow poke 
>beetles !  Not to be confused with Chris "Slowpokey" from 
TO.  He and 
>Jennifer were doing just fine in their air-cooled Westy !
>       IWCCC contingency from Quebec City were definitely 
the long distance 
>winners.  Me it was a five hour drive from Almonte, about 
400 km.  Nice 
>Sunday drive.  Andre Levigne from Gatineau and I caravaned 
up to the border 
>at Thousand Islands where we met up with Larry & Avery 
Johnson from 
>Wilberforce, ON.  Had a littler chat and went our separate 
ways.  No probs at 
>the border crossing for any of us.  Andre did get into a 
short discussion 
>about how fast the TDI's were at the track, with the border 
guard he 
>encountered.  What a bigger hoot !  Oh well, always 
something to keep us 
>entertained while 'en route home !
>       Videos & pics to come soon ........staytuned !
>       
>Cheers��
>
>Frank Condelli
>Almonte, Ontario, Canada
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