Outside the dugout: What's cooking?

Saturday morning and 73 degrees out! I'll take it!

Had to go over to Mom's yesterday while the Spectrum tech came to swap out a bad router/modem. In conversation with the tech, Steve, I learned his father was British and a member of the RAF. That sorta made my day.

I picked up some baked ziti and a couple Greek salads on the way from Stavros for our lunch, which as always was good. They were pretty busy and it's good to see some of the restaurants around here forging ahead.

Watching the TT right now. Going to go out on a limb and predict a win today for The Durango Kid!

 

Pogacar!

 

The cooler temps and lower humidity made this weekend the perfect time to kick off the first pot of chili of the fall—2 spaced out suppers over rice covered with shredded cheddar and today finished it off with chili-cheese dogs for lunch. If anybody wants good hotdogs without firing up the grill, just pull out your frying pan of fresh bacon grease from breakfast and roll your dogs around in your heated up bacon drippings instead of boiling them in water—outstanding!

Tonight I’ll be grilling BBQ chicken halves seasoned with coarse black pepper and Everglades seasoning and of course Pat’s Homade on the last two turns.

Inside we’ve got fresh green beans and new potatoes and fresh bi-color cob corn.

The afternoon/evening adult libations are ready to go.

Life is good in Gator Nation!

 

Lurk—

Our weekly Zoom with friends we were having on Saturday’s kept being a conflict with weekend stuff we just moved ours to Wednesday. Seems to work better for us since we’re all retired anyway.

 

Your brother sounds like a great guy!

I'm a bit of a motor head myself. Got a few old Porsches - but only 6 motorcycles. No lift though .

Today was "Drive your 356 Day"!

 

That's cool he had that 911S. Those early 911's (pre-'74) we call the "longhoods" because after that year the US required crash bumpers and it changed the hood length. The US also prohibited carbed engines so the ones sent to the US were fuel injected - starting with MFI (mechanical FI) and then the electronic fuel injection (CIS).

My 2nd 911 was a '73 911T. Italian delivery so had factory carbs. Twin 3 barrel Zeniths on a 2.4. I never should have sold it and will regret doing it until the day I die - maybe even longer. I won't go into a bunch of details but suffice to say it was in incredibly original condition with one very well done re-spray of the factory Tangerine (the color Porsche used on it's rally cars) and a 10/10 black interior. Even had the original balsa support piece in the trunk w/perfect trunk carpet. The original two battery boxes.....original Michelin spare. Original Fuchs. Just a beautiful car and drove perfect. I replaced the factory air cleaner with K&N rain hats and then those carbs made that cool sucking sound when you mashed it.

My only 6 cylinder Porsche now is am '83 SC Targa under restoration. My other Porsche is a '72 914 with an updated engine - the 2.0 with factory FI. It runs good.

The oil sump of a 911 is 11 quarts but your brothers probably had an enlarged one for track driving. I did some track driving with my first 911 - an '81 SC Targa but not racing. Just track driving with various clubs. It was fun but (for me) became a bit boring, but glad I did it. Nothing like running your car up through the gears on a race track and going through turns at speed. I did the 17 turn course at Sebring a few times. What a course that is!

I'm not much of a mechanic but did R&R my '81's engine myself. Those factory head bolts snap like crazy after a while so have to be replaced, which is why I did it. I didn't do the engine work itself. And I'm terrible at carb work.

Here's a couple pics of "Tangerine". She's in California last I knew with a Frenchman who use to drive for Porsche when he lived in Europe. At least she's in good hands....

 

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Well at least you and I have two things in common... the Gators and Porsches. I’ve had two 911s. Used to have a 997.2 C4S. I went a little bit “purer” on my current one, a 996 C2.

 

I lived in Murphree Hall too - in my sophomore year.

Does that make it three things we have in common?

 

Probably have a whole lot in common.

 

Tonight we’re going to be treated to Ms. Jan’s smother fried cubed steak and gravy, smashed red potatoes, and fresh pink eye peas w/snaps and fresh okra.

I will also fry cornbread to go with.

Very pleasant weather again today with a high of 74*, light breeze, and the humidity is really down. Our afternoon/evening adult refreshments will be both available and enjoyed.

Life is good in Gator Nation!

 

Carnitas are sooo good!!!! Ice cold longneck Pacifico’s with fresh lime slices are perfect with that IMHO