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this weekend?

Today is driving the Healey with a few other clubs - Horeseless Carriage Club, Veteran Motor Car Club of America and of course our Roadrunner Austin Healey Club.

Probably about 75 miles total.

Have all the essentials - Blackberry (yes, I still have a Crackberry), IPod, Nicon S9100 and bottled water. Imagine all this gagetry in a car without even a cigarette lighter, no real windows and an electrical system that is made safe with 2 fuses. Come to think of it I don't recall 'bottled' water in the Fifties.

Enjoy your weekend. :driving: :banana:
 
Scraping old caulk and paint from outside windows, and prepping for repainting. Only three, but they're in sad shape, and the job is long overdue.
 
Cruisin' The Coast starts Sunday. MG is all ready to go except for top side waxing. I wax th' thing evey five years whether it needs it or not. I only do the top side as the sides look like they were painted with a ball peen hammer. Other than clean the air filter that's it.

75 miles here is a short in-town trip. No gadgetry ever, only google directions and the trip odometer for long back roads trips. (Try it sometme, it's a lot of fun, especially when there isn't any street signs.)

CRAP! I jusr realised my odo won't be correct any more since I changed diff gears. This is gonna get real interesting going to Mobile via all two lane back country roads. (4 hrs and a little over 200 miles)
 
Final drive with the local Brit car club on Sunday. Clear and cold here (frost on the grass this morning), so it's top-up driving.

Otherwise, blowing out the sprinkler system to prep it for winter and a few gigs as usual.
 
Thanksgiving. Though a little unusual as SWMBO is in Atlanta for school and for various reasons there won't be an extended family do. Off to Peterborough today and tomorrow for work <church anniversary> and then taking the kids out for T'giving meal. (We're picturing it like the single dads with their kids at Denny's on Xmas eve a la The Santa Claus) T'will be better. Hopefully, possibly a run on Monday with Mark's (ABarth69) Italian sports car club.
 
Oh yeah, Happy Thanksgiving to all of you up North!

I drove the MGB a little top down today and yesterday. Today mostly spent swapping tires on race car plus cleaning, new brake pads, remounting mirrors....lots of small stuff. In preperation for Watkins Glen next weekend.

I'll be power-washing vinyl siding later on today.
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The kids start their fall break today. So I'll have two spazzes running around.

I need to clean up the back yard.

I'll likely finish polishing the aluminum surround for SWMBO's '69 Sprite.

It's just crazy party time over here let me tell you.
 
I gotta hand to to y'all Judy. I'd be a nervous wreck driving something that nice on regular roads. :eeek:

Good to see folks like yourself gettin' them out there. :thumbsup:

I'm too OCD, first bug hits the windshield and I'm pullin' over and cleanin' it off...seriously. I worry about something happeneing too much. That's why I sold my nice stuff. It'd be more like a 75 foot weekend for me. :wall:

I drive 'em ugly for a reason. :crazy:

Enjoy! :driving:


P.S See if you can get us some pics with all that gadgetry. :wink:
 
I'll be checking out a '52 Telecaster and parting out a mostly '58 Telecaster for an old friend, yard work - harvest my pumpkin patch and then I'm drinkin' beer and shooting at old aerosol paint cans with my pellet gun... :banana:
 
Let's see ... harvested hops, sorted seed, showed close to 100 visitors from all over the world how New Englanders lived in the early 19th century, enjoyed hearth-cooked vegetable stew and apple cake for noon dinner, and got some plowing done.

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Just got back, gone about 7 hours. Ate all the things I shouldn't - too much coffee, too many donuts, followed by a really good burger and fries which will end up with Pizza and Greek Salad when husband comes home. All toll drive was about 150 miles round trip. Dah, I forgot I had my camera but some of the others took some photos. Our friend, Jock, has almost 100 cars of which about 50 belong to him. He has hangars on his property. When we arrived he was taking in an 8 cylinder engine for his 1922 Wills Saint Clair sedan and giving a 1926 Stutz engine to a young man who restores such engines. The delivered engine was 2+ years for its restoration. Jock has a couple of LaSalles, '37 Chrysler Airflow, a couple of Packards, a Hudson, etc. Jock is NOT married. The other gent, Archie, also has an extensive car collection. All in all a great time was had by all.

Agatha was not intimated by any of these fine vehicles and she held her own.

Tomorrow will be just some quiet at-home time.

Continue to enjoy your weekend.
Happy Thanksgiving to my northern friends.

P.S. Agatha is meant to be driven and after looking at the odometer and doing my best math, she averages about 3,000 miles a year. I'd do more but there are always commitments and only so much leisure time.
 
NutmegCT said:
Let's see ... harvested hops, sorted seed, showed close to 100 visitors from all over the world how New Englanders lived in the early 19th century, enjoyed hearth-cooked vegetable stew and apple cake for noon dinner, and got some plowing done.

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I recognize Sturbridge Village. It must be beautiful there with the foliage. One of my favorite Fall excursions. Second only Quabbin Reservoir and Mystic Seaport.
 
Fighting a cold on the Thanksgiving long weekend, watching our football team totally suck right now (a lot of yelling at the TV tonight!), I've certainly had better weekends then this one... :crazy:

Heck I even missed the local sports car club's annual Fall Colours tour a couple of weeks ago - thanks for all the reminders :frown: - they used to always have it in early October, they moved it back to mid-September this year and I read about it on their website the day after it happened... :wall: Yeah...
 
In all my years, I didn't know that Canada had a Thanksgiving day! Very nice and hope all had a memorable day!

SORRY Sherlock! Take a couple of these every two hours :thirsty: and the cold will disappear! Contents optional. :laugh: PJ
 
Finally dropped the trans outta th' Spider yesterday (mostly watched as a couple friends did the actual deed!).

Will disassemble it shortly and fiddle around with the cogs, etc.

Today is Horsemits' b'day so not much to do but celebrate. :wink:
 
Hope you post pics. Unlike, me who forgot to take pics...
 
Wish her a happy b'day from all of us up here
 
My weekend was a mixed bag....Sunday (today) was our 17th wedding anniversary. Had some really nice time with the Mrs, oldest daughter and son. Downside is our middle daughter is in the Children's ward for evaluation and observeration. She's 11 and her bio family history has come back to haunt her. Hopefully the Drs can get her dialed in and help her regain some "normalcy", whatever that looks like for her.
 
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