NCRG Roundup - 5/27/2012 - Day 3

I'm a little late in posting this, so here goes.  The final full day of the Roundup was a lot of fun with the car games and the banquet.  The car games were held at the nearby Black Oak Casino parking lot where the spectators had a great view of the activities.  Many of our members participated in the games and I believe Mark & Jill Barrett took first and Jill and Nathan Barrett took second.  The games consisted of:
 - the pie-tin full of water - who had the most water left in the pan after driving the obstacle course
 - crush the peanuts - who could crush the most peanuts with the right front tire
 - bean bag in the inner-tube - drive over 3 inner-tubes without the tires touching them, back up and throw bean bags into them, all the while the tires must avoid the inner-tubes
 - coast to a stop - accelerate for a short distance then coast to a stop and getting the front tires closest to a line
 - pop the balloon - turn off the engine, both driver and passenger put on overalls, blow up a balloon, pop it on the side step, get out of the overalls and both people back into the car and start the car. 

My wife and youngest daughter drove up for the banquet, what a great way to end the event.  The banquet was packed, and we sat next to a fun group from Sonoma.  It was fun and the food was pretty good. 

The Barrett's won the Bill Jones award for participating and excelling in all 4 major events for the roundup.

I can't wait until next year in Pleasanton with the Acorn A's and especially in 2024 when we host it.

NCRG Roundup - 5/26/2012 - Day 2

Saturday - The second day is done, there were a number of things going on today,
the car judging, fashion judging, tea and fashion show, technical seminar, and the Hubley races.  But I think the best thing was the pizza dinner organized by Mark and Jill at t))he Elks Club before the Hubleys.

The car judging was dominated with SCVC judges and apprentice judges.  Bill C. as the man in charge, with John G., Gene M. Mark B., Mike L., Wayne I., Larry C., John P., and Will L.   I don't know how the SCVC member cars scored yet, hopefully at the banquet

Many of the club members were also involved in the fashion events

then the final event of the day, the Hubleys.  

Brandon Lee took 1st in the teenager class

Glenn Wildman took 1st after a bit of confusion by the folks running the event, Lizanne took second.

SCVC took 1st in the Club races, Vicki accepted the award, it was their car :-

NCRG Roundup - 5/25/2012 - Day 1

Friday -
Today is the 1st day of the Roundup and i won't get there until after dinner, sigh, the downside to a demanding job.  I am taking my modern car (truck) so the odds of me making it there are much greater than in my Roadster.  I'm heading out directly from work this afternoon.  I will try to update this space with exciting tales and pictures all without a computerr, just my Samsung tablet.

This will be my first Roundup, I'm really looking fotward to this.  My wife and youngest daughter won't be able to join up until Sunday for the banquet, then they head back home, I wull head out Monday morning.

Should be fun...

Update:  I arrived about 6:30, I'm very glad I did not have the Roadster, the rain and cold would have been miserable.  I signed in at the hotel and registered with the roundup. After settling into the room I wandered around and took a few pictures.  But since I only have my tablet with me, I needed to download the pictures from my camera.  With a couple of simple adaptors, I not only can download my pictures, but attach a keyboard and mouse to the tablet, completely replacing my laptop.

Here's my setup

And here are some pictures of a few cars.

The clouds were looking a bit ominous, 

hopefully it won't rain like it did on the way up here.

Tomorrow shoud be interesting with the car and fashion judging in the morning,.

Electrical cutoff switch

Well, it's been over a year since I last posted anything here, time really flies when you overworked...

I have been busy with work, but recently found time to do a little work on the Roadster.  I managed to install an electrical cutoff switch between the battery and the frame.  It works well.  Here's how I installed the setup.

I had to enlarge the hole in the cross brace behind the battery so I could mount the switch, amazing what a simple rat-tail file can do in just a few minutes.  Once that was done, I installed the 19" #1 gauge battery cable on the positive terminal, ran it through the gap between the transmission and the body to one side of the switch.  There was only about 5" between the other side of the switch and the nearest hole in the frame cross brace.  I didn't have a wire to mtch that so I used a 5" section of 1/2" copper pipe.  I flattened the ends 90 degrees from each other, drilled the mounting holes and bolted it on.  oh yeah, I also ground away any paint near the brace mounting hole to make for a good connection.

By the way, I did this entire post from my tablet...

Here are some pictures: