Autoweek.com article
Ted Hedman
https://www.autoweek.com/car-life/classic-cars/g37137193/socal-tt-rally/
It was great fun again this year despite us hitting a baby deer. Broke a headlight (just the glass!), bent the bumper and LF fender. Could have been much worse!
David Bliese
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Dan Heil
No... the driver overestimated the turn and went in too fast and wrecked the car.......
Drivers and writer blaming the road for a humans errors...
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1987 Yamaha 250SRX
And 510 wagons!
Kelvin Dietz
Deer take all the fun out of driving at night. Years ago I was bombing
along on one of my favorite back roads when a doe showed up in the
middle of the turn. I slammed on the brakes and I was sure I was going
to hit her. Somehow I didn't. I'll bet she took the dust off the fender
with her butt.
Went back the next day and found four skid marks going at an angle to
the curve. Not the direction of travel but the direction four locked
tires would take you. I think that sliding sideways 5 ft was just about
the only way I was going to miss her.
I whipped by a huge buck standing on the side of the road that scared me
almost as much. Brrrr....
Kelvin
Kelvin Dietz
"A perfect-looking Datsun 510 prepares to do battle on the SoCal TT"
Hell yeah.
That is how you 510.
David Bliese
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paolo
David,
Made it is one thing. Featured is
altogether another...
Still - given the wide range and purported
neutrality from the institution expected, he has two.
Nonetheless, it seems to outshine the other marques regarding
specific brand and year.
Yet I am cognitively blinded by my Dime prejudice, a.k.a. marque blindness (expressed as none are as important to merit my attention). There should be a word for that but I have yet to find it or invent it.
paolo
Ted,
Thanks again for sharing!
Regarding your 'Bambi' encounter, I feel for you man.
It happened to me on a return home trip
about an hour or so north from Mt. Shasta around 2003 or 2004.
Dear crossing signs noted. At about 70-mph I saw a mother and
child dart across the road from left to right well ahead of me.
Another sibling stood frozen at left side of road.
The poor little thing. It suddenly decided
to follow mamma and leaped in pursuit just as I and other
traffic approached. Enough time for me to react but had to make
choice. 1. Swerve
- but too much traffic. 2. Brake hard and miss the
dear but risk getting rear-ended by a semi following close
behind me and cause follow-up issues. 3. Slow down just enough
to avoid any issues.
I went for #3. I partly succeeded.
I just caught Bambi's the rear flank at the
right front corner and sent it spinning wildly to right side of
road. It managed to get to other bank off the road with front
legs but I am sure it did not survive. Difficult scene to
experience. Even tougher to glance at aftermath in rear view
mirror.
Damage to car not unlike yours, though my
front bumper was not as initially as pristine as yours nor got
as damaged as yours. I had no bumper-to-fender bolt installed
so no buckling at lower right fender. No broken glass. Mostly
the headlamp buckets and front bulkhead panel were bent out of
shape.
Ted Hedman
I had that fender repaired after it was failed by a blown tire. Now this. 😬
We've been doing this fun rally for several years called the SoCal TT and Autoweek just posted an article about it on their website.
https://www.autoweek.com/car-life/classic-cars/g37137193/socal-tt-rally/
It was great fun again this year despite us hitting a baby deer. Broke a headlight (just the glass!), bent the bumper and LF fender. Could have been much worse!
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Ted Hedman
On August 3, 2021, at 10:03 AM, Kelvin Dietz <kel...@datsuns.com> wrote:
Bummer, man. At least it was a small deer. Still sucks.
Deer take all the fun out of driving at night. Years ago I was bombing
along on one of my favorite back roads when a doe showed up in the
middle of the turn. I slammed on the brakes and I was sure I was going
to hit her. Somehow I didn't. I'll bet she took the dust off the fender
with her butt.
Went back the next day and found four skid marks going at an angle to
the curve. Not the direction of travel but the direction four locked
tires would take you. I think that sliding sideways 5 ft was just about
the only way I was going to miss her.
I whipped by a huge buck standing on the side of the road that scared me
almost as much. Brrrr....
Kelvin
On 8/3/2021 8:58 AM, Ted Hedman wrote:
> We've been doing this fun rally for several years called the SoCal TT and Autoweek just posted an article about it on their website.
>
> https://www.autoweek.com/car-life/classic-cars/g37137193/socal-tt-rally/
>
> It was great fun again this year despite us hitting a baby deer. Broke a headlight (just the glass!), bent the bumper and LF fender. Could have been much worse!
>
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Ted Hedman
Years ago there was a minor controversy when Car and Driver called the convertible Karman Ghia the modern equal to the Porsche Speedster. Ed got an earfull from Porsche owners. An accompanying article by a Speedster owner/staffer was titled "Confessions of a Marque Chauvinist Pig". Perhaps "Marque Chauvinist " is the term Paolo is looking for?
On August 3, 2021, at 3:32 PM, paolo <pa...@cedarcomm.com> wrote:
>
>
>David,
>
>Made it is one thing. Featured is altogether another...
>
>Still - given the wide range and purported neutrality from the institution expected, he has two. Nonetheless, it seems to outshine the other marques regarding specific brand and year.
>
>Yet I am cognitively blinded by my Dime prejudice, a.k.a. marque blindness (expressed as none are as important to merit my attention). There should be a word for that but I have yet to find it or invent it.
>
>Paolo ———
>
>On 8/3/2021 10:41 AM, David Bliese wrote:
>
>Ted made it in 4 of the pictures, with the yellow 510 in another. Represent!
>
>On Tue, Aug 3, 2021 at 1:04 PM Kelvin Dietz <kel...@datsuns.com> wrote:
>
>"A perfect-looking Datsun 510 prepares to do battle on the SoCal TT"
>
>Hell yeah. That is how you 510.
>
>On 8/3/2021 8:58 AM, Ted Hedman wrote:
>
>We've been doing this fun rally for several years called the SoCal TT and Autoweek just posted an article about it on their website. https://www.autoweek.com/car-life/classic-cars/g37137193/socal-tt-rally/ It was great fun again this year despite us hitting a baby deer. Broke a headlight (just the glass!), bent the bumper and LF fender. Could have been much worse!
>
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Ted Hedman
The young man riding shotgun in the blue/white Sprite with his Dad came up with an amusing nickname our 510s: “Ketchup and Mustard”.
https://i.imgur.com/llU04co.jpg
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Ted Hedman
FYI- There will be another SoCal TT over Columbus Day weekend Oct 10-11. We need to get more 510s on the run, so hit me up if you’re interested.
-Ted
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Perhaps a "marquenist"?
Nah, nobody wants to admit to that. 🙄
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Ted Hedman
I wonder if those deer whistles you attach to your bumper actually work?
walt matenkosky
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paolo
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paolo
The $7 units won't work.
If we do a thought experiment, think of
blowing air across the top of that empty beer bottle. At only
specific breath velocities will you get a resonant frequency.
Octaves apart. The deer whistle, while working with the same
principle, would do the same, unless it was designed more like a
harmonica.
It's not like deer don't here or see you coming. Adding another noise will not change the fact that they don't understand the velocity of a moving car. It's unnaturally fast. When you get close enough, they either freeze or bolt.
Finishing the thought experiment, it does
seem the more money one spends on such a device, the better in
one's mind, it works, so the $7 unit probably does not work at
all. Beer's a better buy buddy.
Ward Hill Press
Steve
At 08:38 PM 8/6/2021, Ted Hedman wrote:
I wonder if those deer whistles you attach to your bumper actually work?
On August 6, 2021, at 1:07 PM, Ronnie Day <ronni...@gmail.com> wrote:
Been there..., done the deer thing!Ā
We live on 10 acres off of a farm to market road (rural two lane road) about 35 miles NE of Bryan/College Station, 75 miles NW of Austin. It truly is BFE. I try to pay close attention all the time, but especially at dusk and later.
About 10 years ago I was on my way to work around 7am and was on a section of road we call the roller coaster. Three big hills/dips over maybe 1/8 mile. As I came out of the first dip a full grown doe came up out of the right bar ditch and I hit her about mid body. Knocked her back into the ditch. $5k plus to fix our '05 Accord sedan. Ever since I've been very paranoid on the secondary roads anywhere, moreso at night.
On Fri, Aug 6, 2021 at 2:39 PM Ted Hedman <thedm...@gmail.com> wrote:
- FYI- There will be another SoCal TT over Columbus Day weekend Oct 10-11.Ā We need to get more 510s on the run, so hit me up if youā€™re interested.
- -Ted
- Ā
- Sent from Mail for Windows 10
- Ā
- From: David Bliese
- Sent: Tuesday, August 3, 2021 7:23 PM
- To: Ted Hedman
- Subject: Re: [Bluebird510] Autoweek.com article
- Ā
- Perhaps a "marquenist"?Ā Ā
- Ā
- Nah, nobody wants to admit to that. š ™„
- Ā
- On Tue, Aug 3, 2021, 9:53 PM Ted Hedman <thedm...@gmail.com> wrote:
- Years ago there was a minor controversy when Car and Driver called the convertible Karman Ghia the modern equal to the Porsche Speedster. Ed got an earfull from Porsche owners. An accompanying article by a Speedster owner/staffer was titled "Confessions of a Marque Chauvinist Pig". Perhaps "Marque Chauvinist " is the term Paolo is looking for?
- On August 3, 2021, at 3:32 PM, paolo <pa...@cedarcomm.com> wrote:
- >
- >
- >David,
- >
- >Made it is one thing.Ā Featured is altogether another...Ā
- >
- >Still - given the wide range and purported neutrality from the institution expected, he has two.Ā Nonetheless, it seems to outshine the other marques regarding specific brand and year.Ā
- >
- >Yet I am cognitively blinded by my Dime prejudice, a.k.a. marque blindness (expressed as none are as important to merit my attention).Ā There should be a word for that but I have yet to find it or invent it.
- >
- >Paolo ——— ”ā€”
- >
- >On 8/3/2021 10:41 AM, David Bliese wrote:
- >
- >Ted made it in 4 of the pictures, with the yellow 510 in another.Ā Represent!
- >
- >On Tue, Aug 3, 2021 at 1:04 PM Kelvin Dietz <kel...@datsuns.com> wrote:
- >
- >"A perfect-looking Datsun 510 prepares to do battle on the SoCal TT"
- >
- >Hell yeah.Ā That is how you 510.Ā
- >
- >On 8/3/2021 8:58 AM, Ted Hedman wrote:
- >
- >We've been doing this fun rally for several years called the SoCal TT and Autoweek just posted an article about it on their website. https://www.autoweek.com/car-life/classic-cars/g37137193/socal-tt-rally/ It was great fun again this year despite us hitting a baby deer. Broke a headlight (just the glass!), bent the bumper and LF fender. Could have been much worse!
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