This is why I spend so many nights in the garage...

[SaxMan]

...for moments like these. Our first Sunday drive of 2015. It was chilly and windy, but that wasn't going to stop us!

photo+3 by onyxsax, on Flickr

photo+2 by onyxsax, on Flickr

We bundled up and turned up the heat in the car. Overall, the car ran well. The carbs still need some minor adjustments. The new fuel sending gauge is a bit overly enthusiastic to head towards "E", indicating I burned a 1/4 tank in 30 miles (not possible), but I usually cue my fuel stops off mileage anyway. I found after about 15 - 20 miles of driving, the car really "settled in" and began running much better than at the start of the day, this being the car's longest drive in 4 months.

We stopped at a new "Day Use" area that was recently opened in Little Bennett Regional Park in Clarksburg. Trying to get my daughter to smile for a selfie was the hardest part of the day.

 

[Rut]

I LOVE it! There's no better reason!
Rut

 

[anarchy99]

If I wasn't chasing an electrical gremlin I would have been out today as well... Beautiful day in Virginia beach

 

[drooartz]

Those are the good days. :thumbsup:

 

[SaxMan]

It was partly sunny and around 50, but there was a constant 15 to 25 mile per hour wind before we even started driving. Still some snowmelt making some road sections wet, and potholes abound. Fortunately, we've had a lot of heavy rain over the last week or so to wash the road salt off the streets. I'll probably need to wash the car again, but it looked surprisingly clean given how many of sections of wet roadway we ran through.

Best of all, at bedtime, my daughter went out like a light.

 

[nomad]

It was partly sunny and around 50, but there was a constant 15 to 25 mile per hour wind before we even started driving. Still some snowmelt making some road sections wet, and potholes abound. Fortunately, we've had a lot of heavy rain over the last week or so to wash the road salt off the streets. I'll probably need to wash the car again, but it looked surprisingly clean given how many of sections of wet roadway we ran through.

Best of all, at bedtime, my daughter went out like a light.

I think she may take after the ol man!!
Shes a cutey and nice that she enjoy's Spridget's!!

Kurt.

 

[aeronca65t]

That's a great photo! Good on you!

(and you're right about the road salt getting washed off......I'll take my MGB out soon for the same reason).

 

[SaxMan]

Jessica is a definitely LBC fan: When we went to visit longbridgehealey to pick up some spare parts for Baby Blue, she had no qualms about hopping into the front seat of his Big Healey.

She is also equally comfortable around planes, which can be an issue when we go to museums. At Udvar-Hazy, she wanted to step over the stanchions to get to the planes.