Wednesday, June 15th
We took off from Hershey and made our way to Hazleton, PA for lunch. It was a beautiful morning - clear skies, cool weather, and no radiator leak!!!! :-) WARNING!! If you don't want to hear me gripe about East-Coast roads, skip this paragraph!!! East-Coast roads SUCK!!!! No. Wait. They REALLY suck. My poor little car was literally shaken apart today. Its not just PA or NY. Virginia, Maryland, it doesn't matter. The winter weather takes a toll and we paid the price today. The car shook so bad that my rear-view mirror came off, the (fake) radiator hood ornament came loose and had to be taken off, and the bolts holding down the right side of the hood all shook loose and came out. I had to zip-tie the hood down. Aaarrrggghhhhh! Its driving me crazy!
The next time someone asks you, "How long does it take to change in tire on a 1928 Ford Model A Speedster on the side of I-81?" Tell them, "about 7 minutes." Yep - we got a flat tire. The change went surprisingly smooth. Our over-night stop was Binghamton, NY. We did some light maintenance on the car since we had nothing broke. Just to recap, our maintenance effort to date: Replaced fuel pump, fixed squeaky alternator belt, leaky radiator, changed flat tire, and tightened loose bolts/hardware. Hopefully that's it.
Lastly, we got caught behind some horrible traffic and had to made up time. Unfortunately, we didn't made up enough and had a terrible Leg 3 score.
Today's performance was neither good nor horrible. It was just ho-hum:
Leg 1: 6 late
Leg 2: 8 late
Leg 3: 23 late
Leg 4: 2 early
We're 3rd in class. Tomorrow and Friday are the deal makers. No legs are thrown out, so you get what you score for the final two days. Plenty of teams have fallen the last two days and plenty of teams have risen to greatness based upon not screwing the pooch in the final stages. Say a prayer and wish us luck - we need it!
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