Miata Mailing List: August 1997, Message #201
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From: 	Brian Tucker <bttucker@us.ibm.com>

Subject: Deal's Gap

Date: 	Sun, 3 Aug 1997 14:23:39 +0000



got up @ 5am just to drive up and drive deal's gap with a bunch of miata

nuts.   wow!  got there about 8:45, driving

relative backroads from atlanta.  they were forming up for a group picture, so

the no fear miata from atlanta is back right in the pictures, if we're in there

at all.  pic's not important - meeting all the neat people was!  and then, we

drove off down deal's gap to chilhowee (?) lake, and off to the foothills

parkway to cool off everyone's brakes.



suffice it to say i was one of several people quite amused at following a

pontiac sedan through deal's gap.  that lady musta been a local - she tried to

stay outta the grill of the miata behind her.  squealing of tires, smell of

brakes - we were playing boy racer (and girl racer) and would hang back, then

charge up, hang back, charge... wow!



mary, scott - thanks so very much for the opportunity! i haven't been on some

of those roads for 25 years - and a miata

is MUCH BETTER than a MkII sprite, even if the steering is slow!  i was amazed

at how much i could do with a

Team Bonestock, with BridgeRock 96 PEP

miata could do.



if you weren't there - well, you need to schedule time on that road.  we saw

nary a one of them huge trucks - just many nice people who figured out after a

few miles that they were holding up 42-43 miatae.  i had to turn off the CD

just to listen to all those motors on song...



and of course, Kathy's antenna splitter tech session was fun...but that story

is for the participants to tell...



and scott wanted to post the deal's gap story - remember, he was in the lead

going out...



bt

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