Kick off your shoes, relax, and have fun!
March 29, 2009:
A set of minor updates in this batch, not enough to reset my "update" markers in the menu. First, I hit another milestone on Feb. 21:
Also, while I was at my brother's wedding, the Shark had it's first taste of snow since it's been under my care:
Immediately after taking the above two pics I moved the car to the side of the driveway to make room for other guests, not knowing how much snow was going to fall. I wanted to move while I could... these are not exactly winter tires.
The pic below was taken a couple of hours later. Amazing how much heat comes out of the hood seam after just running it for a minute or so. Yes, I'm a n00b when it comes to snow -- I mentioned elsewhere I'm a California boy.
While I was up in Nevada County, my brother gave me a piece he had been working on for me -- a custom banjo bolt for the radiator bleed hose. Details on my Radiator Page.
February 1, 2009:
I guess this qualifies as a mega-update. 17 new "Shark Attack"Pages. 6 new "Events" Pages. 3 new "Garage Mahal" pages. I have re-written the menu generator script to allow for the addition of sub-sections, Current link highlighting, conditional display of certain sections(for example, go to "Other Interests" and the "Shark Attack", "Events" and "Garage Mahal" links disappear until you click a link outside the "Other Interests" area). My shark passed a milestone since my last update, and is due to hit another soon:
I'm taking more of an interest in videography, and have added some new sections on that subject under "Other Interests".
Below is my first YouTube video upload, available in HD(many more to come):
Here is a direct link to my YouTube channel:
YouTube Channel
It's been a busy couple of years since my last update. I hope you enjoy your visit!
April 3, 2006:
Several updates in this batch, including a "Garage-Mahal" section which only had the first page in it for some time. From now on the latest three sets of updates, whether the update involves adding text to an area that has long been without any or the page is entirely new, will be marked with an asterisk '*' in the link text for the most recent updates, a dagger symbol '†' for the next most recent updates and a double dagger symbol '‡' for the next most recent updates. I was going to make a list of changes but that would clutter up this page too much and would not help once a user clicks to another page.
Since I first posted this site over two years ago, a lot has happened. Since then I've added 22 project pages, and added two new sections -- "928/Porsche Events" and the "Garage-Mahal", for a total of 41 pages added to the original site at this writing... and the feedback has been very encouraging.
I first set up this page to chronicle my projects and learning experiences with this fine car, as a way to "give back" to the Rennlist.com community that has been so informative and helpful in all things relating to sharks. There are a ton of great writeups on procedures and projects by Rennlist people like John Pirtle, Greg Nichols, George Suennen(site is down, he's working on it), and Tony Harkin, and many many others that I have found over the last two years. Not intending to diminish in any way what these guys have done, most of their info is for later cars than mine(though there is a lot in common), and the Nichols site has just about no pictures. Sometimes a pic is worth a thousand words... especially when I was in the early stages of picking around, trying to figure out how things should look on the car, etc.
So, I decided that I would document stuff for the '78 and other early cars. in hopes it could help someone down the road. I'm really glad so many have found this information useful, and thank you for all the nice comments. I'm definitely going to "Keep the OB Torch burning", as Brian G (IcemanG17 on RennList) likes to say.
June 20, 2004:
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Feb 29, 2004:
I decided in mid-January 2004 to create a website about my journey through my life's series of cars, at the time of this writing culminating in the purchase of a 1978 928 5 speed. Come on in and poke around a bit.... I've written about the development of my lust for fast, well-made cars, about the cars I've had in the past, and how I came to purchase my 928. I grew up in a family that didn't have a lot of money to throw around; I paid for my first car and many of the "toys" that I wanted as a young man with my own sweat & brains. I am a fifth-generation Californian, and have lived in the highly competetive Silicon Valley all of my life so far. I worked my way up through the ranks, doing many things.... AAA Tow driver and construction during college, and I've been doing Software/Process QA for most of the years between 1987 and the present. I've written a little about my other interests as well.
For now, this site is very much in an "initial" stage, and I expect it to grow as I fill in the blanks and have more 928 experiences and info to add. This is probably the best page to bookmark, since I will ultimately be updating it to show the latest image of my car, changing it as I make changes to the car.
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