High drama... LA contender drives to final round of BSC

ICF · Post by **ICF** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 5:11 pm

Gary Poage and Alvon Elrod have elected to drive Gary's 38 year old spider to ItalianCarFest (near Dallas) for the final round of the Best Spider Challenge. They depart Tues. evening about 6 p.m. (Pacific time) and head to Tuscon. The next morning they depart for the final leg of the journey.

ICF opens for the public 10 a.m. Saturday Sept. 22, 2007.

The Seattle spider owned by Dan Rian is already in Grapevine, Texas.

The San Francisco spider owned by Niels Uni is on the way by transporter.

The car from North Carolina is being trailered by the owner Denise Burchette and departs the east coast soon.

http://www.italiancarfest.com

mdrburchette · Post by **mdrburchette** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 8:00 pm

It's starting to get exciting. My car is finally put back together and cleaned up. Now all I have to do is load the trailer and I'll be on my way on Wednesday.
Alvon, good luck with your drive and I'll see you and Gary there.

So Cal Mark · Post by **So Cal Mark** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 9:18 pm

I thought Gary and Alvon were trailering the Spider?

gary124as · Post by **gary124as** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 11:00 pm

Mark,

In the eleventh hour the trailer we were going to use didn't quite work out. So we'll see how far we get. Maybe we should sell squares for different locations where we might get stranded. At any rate it should be an adventure. The car is in good working order - Alvon and I changed the timing belt and the idler pulley on Saturday. The week before I did a major tune on it, new plugs, ignition wires, two new fuel filters, took apart the IDF's and cleaned the jets, new Mobil 1 and filter. So we shall see how it goes. It is almost 39 years old and does have 250,000 miles on it I hope/think it will make it. Look for vultures circling for our location!

Gary

So Cal Mark · Post by **So Cal Mark** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 12:19 am

what I've learned over the years is that nothing will fail if you have a spare with you. So, I'd suggest a spare fuel pump at the very least! And a tow strap. Good luck with it!

Spiderboyuk · Post by **Spiderboyuk** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:33 am

Good luck to all from England. Looking forward to hearing results - wish we could be with you.
SpiderboyUK.