Billy Joel at Captree (now at OBI) on 5/29

A few pics from Captree (at OBI) this past Sunday. Billy Joel showed up with his hog.

Note: everyone gets together at OBI now that summer has started and they charge an entrance fee at Captree.
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What brand of tire is on your Mondial? My metrics are from 1983, I need to get a 328 setup

 

did he crash into any houses?

 

Wow, that meeting spot is now getting famous. Its cool he "blended" in.

 

I wanted to keep the original wheel look so I bought the new replacement wheels from http://www.superformance.co.uk/wheels.htm. The replacement wheels are 16" by 7" and cost about $1100 with shipping to New York.

The original TRX tire size is 240/55 - 390

240 = width
55 = aspect ratio
390mm = wheel diameter (15.35")

Width X aspect ratio = section height, so 240X.55=132

Overall diameter = wheel diameter + (section height X 2)

So, the original tire/wheel overall diameter = 132X2+390 = 654mm = 25.75"

Therefore 16" tires that will closley approximate the overall tire/wheel diameter are:

245/50 - 16 which gives a tire height of 25.65"

225/55 - 16 which gives a tire height of 25.74"

205/60 - 16 which gives a tire height of 25.69"

I decided to go with 225/55. I ordered from TireRack the Avon Tech M500s. The reviews and price were good and so far I haven't been disappointed.

Hope this helps.

 

Just a few cars on the way out! LOL

 

It was REALLY packed this pas Sunday. Ive never seen it so busy.

 

The lot is a bit smaller than last year, a whole row of parking was lost due to the on going construction of the towns park. I finally got my friend to come down this past Sunday in his 430 Spyder and he had to park it in the dirt, I should have swapped spots with him I drive a Subaru Sti. LOL.

 

digging the wheels Doug... nice choice.

 

Thanks!

 

Is anyone going to OBI this sunday?

 

weather depending but no F car this Sunday off to Jersey afterwoods

 

Nice to see Celebrities just being normal people.

 

More pics

 

Made it to Oak Beach yesterday with the 308. I was the only F car there. About 50 cars mostly Corvettes were present. A State Trooper sat at the entrance giving every car the once over. He finally pulled over a fairly new Mustang and gave it a ticket. It sure was not for speeding. I was wondering since most of the cars present did not having front plates, were they going to be his quarry? He left after a while and I took off.

 

2 weeks ago when I was there there was only one other f-car. It was very crowded with people parking on the grass, road, everywhere. Cops were there but didn't hassel anyone. Guess they got new marching orders.

How was the weather? I was out of town last weekend but thought it rained here, possibly why the low turnout. Won't be able to make it this weekend as I will be in the f-car out in the Hamptons with the wife for the weekend

 

I was there about 11AM and lo and behold they had about 5 troopers running a reg/inspection checkpoint just outside the OBI ......