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The tides have been high and the wind is been blowing a bit. Peak gusts the other night were 50mph and one buffeting peaked at 55. Monday I left for a couple hours and when I got back I took these two pictures on the out going tide. The detergent bottle is filled with water and the scum line had just about made it up to the bottom of the sacrificial Elan shell. This is the one that?s has been fully immersed before so there are no worries, its fiberglass right? Those were Monday?s pictures, there are no today photos as the camera stopped focusing but there was a repeat last night and the scum line was a little higher. Back in October 30th 1991 in the No Name storm the water was just about even with the top of the rear tire on the bicycle leaned against the house so I guess these a just the spring tides come early.

Oh yea, Honda V6, K20a, F20c, and F22c and all new (2000 end newer) Honda engine rotate the conventional direction.

Gary

garyeanderson wrote:The tides have been high and the wind is been blowing a bit. Peak gusts the other night were 50mph and one buffeting peaked at 55.

Ahh, the gentle breezes! We get gusts of up to 100 mph here in the west of Ireland, 80 mph common during some storms.

...aha, so YOU"VE got the one off LoCo Roadster....

Count your blessings, Gary. At least your house didn't blow up like your neighbor's.

(For those not in the Greater Boston area: Natural gas leak plus ignition source, unfortunately resulting in a fatality. There were several such incidents in a period of a few months, apparently unrelated.)

Gary,

We had some flooding down her in the past year but at least I didn't have to anchor ( or buoy) any of the cars.

BTW with the a-pillars cut like that I think we have a speedster version of the LoCort .... now where did I leave that roller-bearing crank.

George

Falcon rear lights on the GT ?? - or is it a "Super" ?? ( nice collection !!)

Galwaylotus

Yes 50 gusts are not a lot but it blows down signs and move sand on the barrier beach. I have seen and slept though the 50 - 60 mph breezes. The 70 mph start to get your attention, 50 to 60 hours of winds in the 50 to 70 mph range out of the North East and I am at full alert and moving stuff to higher ground.
February 6th through the 8th 1978 started with those 30 to 50 mph breezes and at the height of the storm my friends and I was an Island in a house with the water 6 feet deep and waves 2 to 3 feet on top of that in behind the barrier beach. I could not stop pissing myself.
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Anyway, I guess you must be from Texas.

1964 S1

Front clips (plural), probably junk but some day they may be needed. I hope not though. The top is at my friend?s yard where no one has to look at it. The lot is for sale and if it sells lots of junk will become refrigerators.

Andy

The house in Scituate is 2 miles away and I heard the blast, as did Beau. I guess some inconsiderate person took the cap off the bleed nipple in the basement and went out side for a while. He later walked back in with a lit cigarette and ended his life and screwed up a 5 other folk?s homes. Luckily he only killed himself but one house is still condemned out of the 5 still standing around the blast. These houses are all on postage stamp lots of 5000 square feet and sited very closely.

George

There was no flooding to speak of, the road on the barrier beach is washed away every winter and it gets put back for the summer season. A couple years ago they put it back in May and they had to do it again for June. These 100 years storms that happen seem to be 10 to 15 years apart now. We are over due on another as it?s been nearly 24 years. The Portland gale of November 26th 1898 brought with it a 14 foot storm surge. The 1978 and 1991 storms were piker's with around a 7 foot surge. On the out going tide of the Portland gale it straightened out the mouth of the North River as it was easier for the water to make a new path.

Dag

Yes 1960 -1961 Falcon tail lamps. They are about ? inch in diameter less than the Cortina lamps but its not noticeable. I didn?t do it , someone in Tennessee can take the credit but it looks good for hack.

Gary and Beauregard

Sorry, you're right, F20C is a conventional left hand (ccw at flywheel) engine. I was thinking that all Honda engines were right hand as my B18C was, they stopped doing things wrong in about 2000, as you say.

Gary, if your cars get washed out to sea, let our UK friends know to be on the lookout. GalwayLotus, heads up!

Greg Z

Good one Greg!

garyeanderson wrote:Anyway, I guess you must be from Texas.

Nope. Grew up in New England!!

gjz30075 wrote:Gary, if your cars get washed out to sea, let our UK friends know to be on the lookout. GalwayLotus, heads up!

Greg Z

If one of those pesky Locorts tries to repatriate itself onto my beach at Pevensey Bay I will claim it as salvage and charge Gary for the clean up operation together with liquidated damages for environmental impact, it probably will have rusted away well before it makes the trip over the pond though....thankfully.

Gary,
I'm cleaning up the beach house now that we have the keys, there's at least 30 years worth of nicotine stains on the walls, problems with the roof and problems with the electrics, it sort of reminds me of an Elan that needs saving. This winters high water mark is 40 metres from my back door and 10 metres below, but the prevailing winds have mostly been offshore towards France this season, in a bad year the waves can overtop the shingle bank with the right set of circumstances. Since 2004 we have had a beach re-charge contract which involves a dredger sucking up the shingle thats eroded by longshore drift and dropped further East down the coast. It then positions itself just offshore and fires the shingle onto the beach for the dozers to use in reprofiling the beach to make good storm erosion. I was thinking of positioning an S4 on the beach when it did this next to see if I could take advantage of the grit blasting to remove the paint... what do you think?

http://www.pevensey-bay.co.uk/recharge.html


Regards

It would probably remove the paint all right - and the fibreglass!!

Will that add lightness then?

Alan
That is against the environmental laws here. 45 years ago the town did a beach replenishment and 2 winters later it was all washed away. We get primarily weather from the west, occasionally things get out of whack and there is a high pressure that sits over Ed's house in Canada and a low pressure area the sits off the New Jersey to Maryland coast and the wind blows out of the Northeast. They call them NorEasters and with the arm of Cape Cod acting like a the terminal moraine that it is, it just blows the water into Cape Cod Bay and when the tide goes out the water doesn't. One the next high tide it piles on top of the water that didn't recede and we get a "storm surge". 60 hours of 40, 50, and 60 mph winds ads 2, 4, or 6 feet onto the high tide in addition to the wave action. That?s when I get to say OH Fire trUCK, I wish I didn't live here. Cortina front clips don?t float and neither do Elan shell?s. If anything they move inland with the breaking waves, then it will be my neighbor across the streets problem. I'll have other problems to worry about if that happens, but it does good things for the local economy.