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Old 03-11-2002, 07:29 AM
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Default Hey Chicago Dudes...my trip report.

Thanks so much for all your hospitaliity and assistance...it was a great initiation. something every new TT owner should have to go through. I still don't think you could find another car on the planet that would allow you to travel far and wide and meet people based purely on ownership. Steve and I had a blast.

The drive back was amazing. We got sad evertime we had to slow down and stop for gas. we just wanted to keep driving and driving. We did the whole trip in one shot chicago-boston. 14hrs flat. Actually "Flat" is a good choice of words, we did the 1st 1100 miles trouble free, and then got a flat 2 miles from my house at 4am in the pouring rain...only to find a stripped lugnut which forced us to call a flatbed tow. last 2 miles took 4.5hrs. Welcome to boston!!!

its at my garage now waiting for the milltek exhaust, pss9s, ag cups, dv, etc.....which I'll be sticking in tonight.

It pretty much rained the whole trip, and all I can say is that the ESP is freakin' AMAZING. I driven almost every car out there and never had anything be so rock solid in 2" of standing water at 80mph. simply awesome!!

so, Thanks again for all your help! you guys rock...
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Old 03-11-2002, 07:44 AM
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Default it was great meeting you David... glad you enjoy the car!

Sorry to hear about the last 2 miles...

Tell Steve I say hi. See you soon in Boston hopefully!
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Default I knew you'd do it in one day!!! :) Great to meet both of you guys...

I hope I wasn't too drunk to make clear that I'm coming to boston for the bomb engine swap Of course, we need the pictures of the installs...
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Default We'll have to meet up when I come out next weekend

Steve gave me his phone number and I'll give him a call either Friday night or Saturday.
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Sorry that I wasn't able to meet up. Were you able to make it to Schaumburg in time Friday night?
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Default got there at 7:59! :-)

we cheated though... David's plane ended up being cancelled and he flew into O'Hare at 7:30. Was still close. But we made it!
Old 03-11-2002, 09:24 AM
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Default hehe come on you can make it from ord to sch in like 15 mins :)

you had plenty of time!

too bad i didn't get to meet up with you guys
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not when it takes like 20 minutes to drive around the terminal because you can't stop!
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Default Glad to hear that he made it.

So we will never know if the MDW to Schaumburg trip would have been possible.
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Default I can try it this friday, just to find out :-)

in fact, we can make this a gtg... caravan from MDW to Schaumburg... heh :-)


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