Pulled the car cover off it for the first time since we got home from LotO & cleaned it up...windshield had a few bug marks on it but nothing else anywhere on the body....WHEW!!

We got home that Sunday evening & I was beat so I just tossed the car cover over it...then got busy around house & yard....then fell & cut eye.....finally getting back on it.

Next up: buttoning up the engine & getting it ready for installation.

great cant wait to see it done. maybe you could drive it to the dillard car show in mid sept. it would be a nice ride for you.

I just built the new rocker assembly - all new rockers, shaft, etc,

Yep, am hoping for Chatanooga & Dillard if things work out.

Tony:

Glad to hear your eye is better.

Did you ream out the new bushings?

They can do that now? I'd heard about the Lasik surgery thing, but I had no idea... 20/20 vision, and better mileage to boot?

What kind of car show is it?

No, Kim, the new bushings were already installed, drilled & presized to the new shaft.

Kim, its an all british car show. its put on by the peachtree mg registry car club, the show is in dillard, GA sept. 19th to the 21st dillard is in the NE corner of GA, some great mtn. driving. if anyone wants more info go to www.peachtreemg.com and click on the show registration for all the info.

Tony, Dillard (GOF) is on my list; I hope to see you there. I rode up last year with a buddy from Athens in his '73 B, but this year I intend to drive the Midget. I'll probably just drive up for the day (Saturday).

Kim, the back road drive over from Asheville would be spectacular!!! You MUST plan on making it.

Jim, you would also have a really nice back road drive from north Atlanta. Midgie should have all the kinks out by then, right?

Ray

I agree Ray the drive from asheville would be great. really driving there from just about anywhere in the SE would be a great drive.

Midgie will be there with or without kinks.

I used to drive a route in my sears repair van almost daily for about 6 months up highway 64 through Cashiers to Highlands, NC. I know there was what people called the Dillard road from there but I never took it. I would figure it would be about 75 miles from me if I go over the mountain and through the woods.

Dillard has the best family resturant in the hole world.

Kim,
Go to Google Maps and enter Asheville, NC as the starting point and Dillard, GA as the ending point in the Driving Directions box. The map is quite good and shows both the northern route (which is Google recommended) through Waynesville, Sylva, and Franklin and the southern route through Brevard, Cashiers, and Highlands. The perfect trip would be to drive in one way and return home the other. Each leg would be about two hours.

Ray

The roads around Cashiers and Highlands are some of my favorite to drive on, unless you're hauling a big rig or trailer. I use to race my Fiats many years ago on the roads around Highlands. It's great to hear the exhaust note bounce off the rocky faces of the gorge on Hwy 64.