GRIZZ's 2017 USA Road trip....... Small update. 28/08/18

[grizz]

Friday morning 03.45 UK time my alarm woke me.

Harley saying WT Actual F ??



Ooooppps.

Now is Saturday Morning 06.30 here in America.
USA 6hrs behind the UK. Managed about 6.5hrs sleep after having been awake 25 hrs straight.
Impulse buy to come surprise visit my friend Dennis for his 60th birthday.
They have a long weekend with Monday off. Labour Day.
So Saturday and Sunday night are championship V8 Sprint car races.
Then hitting road to see a few very good friends in the Dodge Hellcat, some also will be surprised.
I had 7 beers at last count last night that may have helped me sleep a bit. Coming home from airport Adam did a rolling burnout at 40mph for about 20 meters. Just mashed throttle "gently" and laid two black lines down. The car is a beast.
But 707 bhp will do that.
That's a mad mad car and I will be driving it.

Sometimes I can do spontaneous like buying the ticket. No regrets so far.
Looking forward to this trip unfolding.

I do hope that some of you guys will be along for the ride.

So after an early start yesterday I came in via





UK from the skies headed out.

Pretty.




So I guess the question is.......


Is anyone interested in more feedback and pics from this trip??

Let me know even if you are a stalker.

[Mercdan68]

Great news RIan, enjoy it
Keep updates we're in for the ride

[tallmatt]

Keep it coming Grizz - always like reading about your trips. I just need to be organised enough to do one myself!

[SmokeEm]

Along for the ride...

[grizz]

Well......

Long flight, even longer when all in flight entertainment has been lost.

Eventually made it to Chicago, no sleep and limited alcohol use.



Amazing, and twice as long as the photo shows, walkway to my Terminal in Chicago after collecting and rechecking baggage.



Then a quick 45 minutes air time to St Louis, this is over the very flat Illinois landscape

Just look at the order.

This went on for miles and miles.



Baggage collection in St Louis was very quick, really efficient.

Then outside and as I got to the pavement/sidewalk, Adam who is Dennis' son and works 3 minutes from there on a construction site, came down the road in his Dodge Hellcat.

Looked rather good.

Then onto the motorway that was massively congested and running stop start.

Eventually got off onto a service road......... Adam just wanting me to drive. What a question.




Dennis' face was a picture when I walked in asking for a beer.



Race car being prepped for two nights of racing.



Yes, the wheels are different sizes.



More engines than you need.

Two more race cars in the shop.



Dennis' 66 C10 Looking good on it's NASCAR chassis.




Now headed out to the Lake of the Ozarks race track

More later if you want to check in.

Looking forward to seeing 20 of these Alcohol fed V8 sprint cars on the start line tonight.

Later.

[Mercdan68]

Fantastic , George and myself watching in awe
Enjoy it all mate

[brachunky]

Junna boet, I'm super jealous 700 odd hp!!!!

[Paul Y]

Right. Book mark d so I don't miss any of the fun.

P.

[bazzateer]

You lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky ............................

[eternaloptimist]

Nice one Grizz, thanks for sharing!

[grizz]

Thanks guys.

Looks like another Sleep when I am dead trip.

02.30 in the USA and 08.30 in the U.K......

Just getting to bed.

A long day and much noise and BHP's racing around an oval dirt track.

[rblote]

Me? Jealous?
ahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahah
ahahahahahahahahaha
ahahahah

YES!!

[ems1]

Enjoyed following your last trip, look forward to this one.

[swampy76]

Sept 2, 2017 16:19:30 GMT @automatik said:

Oh, and btw. if you happen to visit Ethyl´s once again,
tell Kelly best regards from a fan in germany.

ask her for more pictures !

[grizz]

Sept 3, 2017 7:27:36 GMT @automatik said:

09:30 in germany already.

Have a very nice day!

Sept 3, 2017 7:58:23 GMT rblote said:

Me? Jealous?
ahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahah
ahahahahahahahahaha
ahahahah

YES!!

Sept 3, 2017 12:27:24 GMT ems1 said:

Enjoyed following your last trip, look forward to this one.

Sept 3, 2017 13:31:43 GMT swampy76 said:

Sept 2, 2017 16:19:30 GMT @automatik said:

Oh, and btw. if you happen to visit Ethyl´s once again,
tell Kelly best regards from a fan in germany.

ask her for more pictures !

Thanks guys, woke an hour ago......

Means I got about 8 hours in, a record in my world. Despite waking a few times.

Had breakfast, now headed out to help Dennis with chainsaw and tractor to cut trees, brush and burn it all.

Not sure when I will post first update.

But can say that 5 hrs of Sprint car racing, getting hit in the face by flying mud and debris....... thrown up by 800 and more BHP cars.....


AWESOME !!!!

[grizz]

Saturday started like this.......

After a serious breakfast and getting some good sleep in.


You know you are not in e city when the mail box looks like this.



Dennis out in the shop doing more fine tuning.

When your motor is putting out high 800's in bhp every bit counts, because everyone else also brings their A-Game.



We did a few bit, me mostly just handing tools and bad advice over.

Then I took a walk to see some of the other stuff that's changed this year.

Real Barn finds, he found and bought this rust free Chevelle (already running after a couple of hours fettling) and a Kerman VW Beetle convertible (For Sale without a title)

Parked in the kitchen of the house Adam and Hanna are building on the 10 acres they bought next to his land earlier this year.





2/3 will be lofted hone and a third will be his shop for the Hellcat etc, till they build another home further away on the land.

Hard work gets rewarded.



Another Dennis purchase this year, just for nostalgic reasons and to haul the lumber for the house build.

I love this truck totally.



Hellcat getting out the shop.

Love the light rings.

One side is actually an air intake as well.



Father and son.



Dennis and Debbie. 12 years later she still lets him go out to play.

Pretty good deal ehhhh..??



This was just my sample from Debs breakfast, my life is complete.

NOTHING BEATS AMERICAN CRISPY BACON.....!!



After breakfast we went to fill the GMC Dually, Challenger and get both a wash.

Dennis is like that, he likes a clean car.

Right, got to go shower, plans have changed, no cutting trees today, we leave in an hour for a BBQ at Clancy's place, then day two of races.

Later you bunch of addicts, stalkers and Vicarious livers.

Hope to have more to report and photos to post up.

[retrolegends]

There's a Grizz Road Trip Coming!!!

[daver555]

Excellent another Grizz roadtrip. Looking forward to the updates! That bacon sure looks good. Making me think of mine and the Mrs annual trip to Canada mid-December!

[grizz]

Sept 3, 2017 19:09:01 GMT retrolegends said:

There's a Grizz Road Trip Coming!!!

And this year I hav managed to sleep close to 8hrs per day/night so far.

My clock may just flip to US time unlike last year when I was running on 3 hrs per 24 for the entire trip.

Headed out to play with a chainsaw and tractor now.

Got trees to cut and move.

[grizz]

Sept 4, 2017 12:44:32 GMT daver555 said:

Excellent another Grizz roadtrip. Looking forward to the updates! That bacon sure looks good. Making me think of mine and the Mrs annual trip to Canada mid-December!

Updates later.

However, I have made another discovery.....

Yesterday Danny (to be introduced later) introduced me to Maple Bacon crisps.....



I may have discovered a suitable replacement for a young damsels milky white breast