Miata Mailing List: July 1998, Message #153

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    Been off the list for a few and wow, I should have unsubscribed!

    Recently went up to Minden Nev. and took Hyw. 4 over Ebbetts pass.  
Awesome road and still tons of snow!  Won some bank playing poker, then 
lost it over the next few nights.  

    Sat. went up to see the Virginia City Hill Climb.  See Doug 
Hyashi's web page:  http://nsxfiles.com  There was a mixup with the 
weekend they were running it, so I missed it. They ran it the weekend 
before, which bummed me out.  The Ferrari club runs it again in Sept., 
so I may take another trip up to see that one. I knew once we got on 
hyw 341 which is closed for the event that we had missed it.  Kinda 
hard to miss the black rubber line laid out by the sticky racing 
rubber.

    After picking up our family's '64 V.W. Bug on Sun. which had 
expired on the way up Thur. (wheel bearing seized) we headed down into 
the Big Valley and home.  

    Heading south on Jack Tone Rd I see in the distance a Laguna Blue 
with a yellow "MIATA NET" windshield banner.  Dennis and Am Fear Gorm 
where headed in the opposite direction.  Small world.  Dennis lives in 
Murphys, up Hyw. 4 and a great drive also.  Quick wave and a mutual 
toot on the CRI is all I could manage.  HI Dennis!
    
    This Fri. the wife and I are having diner at Diablo Grande.  This 
is a huge development backed by Don Panoz. Yup. That Panoz.  Chateau 
Elan in Georgia is the prototype for Diablo Grande.  Anyone with some 
idea on the Geogia local?  I heard it is quite the site.  The best 
thing is I am scoping Diablo Grande out for a Miata run as it is at the 
end of my fav. run which is Mt. Hamilton.  I'll let everyone interested 
know what I dig up from this recon. mission.  

    Thanks for listening, err reading!

    Eric Schwarzentraub
    '91 Silver
    Modesto, CA