Small world

Quiet night tonight. Just one aircraft at the terminal with my name on it. Did a simple repair job on the ailerons and then proceeded to kill time by hanging out in the cabin with everyone else. Picked up a magazine from one of the racks, just to browse thru. And as I flicked thru the pages a picture of a purple R33 caught my eye. I backed up thru the pages and looked again. True enough it was the same R33 owned by the guy who sold me my S13. By the looks of it, a load of work had been done on it as well as a load of money spent. Reading the article. The creditability of journalism was called into question as they quoted it as producing 900hp. Sure that is not an unheard of figure but in this place with the resources here I do rather doubt it. Even back in the UK 500hp skylines are few and far between. Also the fact this whole country has just 1 dyno tester. And I have my suspicions that the only dyno that car saw was the butt dyno.

For those not in the know a butt dyno works this way. you sit ya arse in the drivers seat. Plant your foot on the go faster pedal and then you say, "ohhhh, that feels like 5000 horse power!!!!" or whatever figure you feel is appropriate.

Now done with the mag. I got talking to the ground engineer. And of cause topic was on cars. He asked what I had I said RX8. He seemed to acknowledge it. Like he knew what it was. A bit strange to me as most people don't know a great deal of anything about rotary. He then said he had a RX7!!! A local with a RX7! I was sure "O" was the only 7 owner here. He then revealed that sadly his convertible 7 is no more. He then added it was red. Now it hit me it was the same car I viewed a year ago! I asked him if it was now sitting abandoned with some piston powered lump in it. He confirmed it! As we talked on about rotarys, he mentioned, while he was looking to get his 7 back on the road he talked to a young chap, who knew about rotarys, who lived at X in this country. And that guy claimed to have a few 7s as well. It dawned to me he was talking about "O" Told the engineer that he should have gone with "O" to get it fixed up, as "O" knows his stuff. Sadly thou this is all in the past and the guys he went with conned him outta aload of cash then admitted they had no clue how to fix a rotary, hence the piston lump in it. And even after the piston transplant they fudged the power steering or something cos he said it would only turn left!! So in the end those guys knew jack about cars anyway...

Just goes to show how much our lives can overlap with each other. whether we know it or not.