"SWITAWI" (switawi)
05/07/2015 at 11:23 • Filed to: None
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"SWITAWI" (switawi)
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SCCA Autocross every first weekend of every month. PCA Time Trials every second weekend of every month. SCCA national events in the summer. A humongulous 3.5mi track layout for PCA’s signature spring and fall events, with a potential for 30-45min practice lapping sessions. Hanging out afterwards at BJ’s Pizza or Shook’s Garage. Good times?.. Maybe the best.
One May we ran a PCA course layout (clockwise) which joined the the two main runways into one long ‘curved straight’ where I could shift my piddling GTI into 5th gear at 115mph right at the apex cone (white dot is in the picture). That was a wild event. The real track cars were passing me going 30mph faster at times.
Every December meant a Toys for Tots event.
Flag instruction by the monthly event chairperson was always inspired.
The full 3.5mi track configuration (also clockwise) was definitely my favorite. Only running it twice a year made it truly special. Over three years I managed to bring my lap time down by 17sec, with better summer tires and a strut bar as my GTI’s only real modifications. Oh, and the wonderful smell of 90W gear oil soaked into the sound-deadening material in the spare tire well from a buddy’s drain pan. Such a wonderful stench in 100deg Texas heat, lol.
One of my favorite cars to drive on track, ever. Right up until that oil return line let go...
Saw one rollover, one guy went into the trees, but never had an incident so bad that someone had to take an ambulance ride. Of course not everything came away unscathed.
We’re still asking him ‘how much torque do you want’ when he bends over, lol.
More track layouts at this wonderful facility can be seen here -
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Those were truly the days.
Long gone, but never forgotten by those who reveled in summer’s sweat, winter’s winds, and the spray of fresh rain. Behind the wheel, no matter what.
In memory of Jak Schaefer, Tom Helton, and other Friends who are gone. We remember.
G_Body_Man: Sponsored by the number 3
> SWITAWI
05/07/2015 at 11:49 |
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Is it bad that I read that as Cannabis Field?
spanfucker retire bitch
> G_Body_Man: Sponsored by the number 3
05/07/2015 at 11:50 |
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Nope, I was about to ask the same question.
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SWITAWI
> G_Body_Man: Sponsored by the number 3
05/07/2015 at 11:57 |
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Naw, we made that joke all the time. At one point I wanted them to do an event shirt of a 911 being chased by a Crown Vic through a field of tall leafy green stuff, lol.
Baeromez
> G_Body_Man: Sponsored by the number 3
05/07/2015 at 12:14 |
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Came here to post this.
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Baeromez
> SWITAWI
05/07/2015 at 12:15 |
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Bitchin’ Camaro.
dogisbadob
> SWITAWI
05/07/2015 at 12:26 |
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awesomest Porsche ever
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dogisbadob
> SWITAWI
05/07/2015 at 12:27 |
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looks fun
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SWITAWI
> dogisbadob
05/07/2015 at 12:31 |
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Most fun I ever had with clothes on.
Xyl0c41n3
> SWITAWI
05/07/2015 at 12:48 |
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Long gone? Are there no more events like this in Corpus? Because I'd so make a weekend journey if there are.
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SWITAWI
> Xyl0c41n3
05/07/2015 at 23:18 |
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Cabaniss NALF was closed for racing use after 9/11. After a couple years the Navy allowed a renewal of the lease with the PCA and SCCA for a while, but it didn’t seem to regain what it was before, and I had moved to D/FW and lost touch with the state of things.
Now I think the regional PCA events are held further south, in Harlingen or Brownsville.
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SWITAWI
> Baeromez
11/20/2015 at 13:03 |
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You should have heard FELT that thing go by. When it was within 100ft at full throttle you practically couldn’t hear any other car on track.
Stef Schrader
> SWITAWI
06/15/2019 at 01:21 |
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PCA still runs in Corpus, don’t they? Is it a different venue now?
Awesome photos. I’m in love with that yellow widebody 944 for sure. So much excellent parsh.
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SWITAWI
> Stef Schrader
06/16/2019 at 18:46 |
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The Navy chose not to renew the lease agreements with the local Coastal Bend SCCA and PCA chapters sometime in ‘01 or ‘02 I think. I know they moved to an airfield in Harlingen with the Rio Grande PCA chapter for a while when I lived in D/FW , but it just wasn’t the same. Cabaniss was pretty unique, especially in the 3.4mi configuration.
Not sure any big time trials are being run in the Valley these days, but Cabaniss is closed to racing as far as I know .
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Stef Schrader
> SWITAWI
06/16/2019 at 20:12 |
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Ahhhh. Interesting.
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SWITAWI
> Stef Schrader
06/17/2019 at 17:27 |
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I should have mentioned, the yellow 944 was Buck Floyd’s car. Buck is a Corpus Christi native who didn’t make an appearance at most of the regular monthly events, but he was there for the long-course events and SCCA nationals. That car was a serious piece of kit. Buck sourced a lot of his bits and pieces through another PCA local, Jason Burkett, who still runs Paragon Products there in Corpus - https://www.paragon-products.com/
Both those guys were serious 944/968 junkies, and at one point Jason had (may still have) a 9 68 Cup Car. Several other fast 944s ran in that chapter with support from Paragon .
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Stef Schrader
> SWITAWI
06/17/2019 at 21:53 |
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Paragon! That site has saved my bacon many, many times. So good to have a 944 parts house here in Texas.
davegt27
> SWITAWI
06/19/2019 at 20:17 |
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small video from those days
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SWITAWI
> davegt27
06/20/2019 at 09:39 |
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Thanks for sharing! I remem ber that car!
Wow, what a flashback. I swear that’s John Blocker waving the Opel in at the start.
I have an old VHS tape montage of different events from ‘98 and ‘99. I just need to figure out how to clean up the footage and transfer it to digital.