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Okay, where the Hades IS everyone!??!

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Weather finally decent here in the District of Criminals. I started to bolt some of the parts I have been working on all winter, back on to the Corvair shell. In a week or two it will be back on wheels for the first time since the mid eighties. I am missing 2 stinking little washers from having the front subframe done. This thing is a giant puzzle. I didn't take it apart, and it has been apart for 20 plus years. Everything I do on it is a bit of an adventure, but that is what restoration is supposed to be right? right? Back to chasing threads, and bead blasting hardware...
 
Finished putting anti-freeze into the
Cortina MKIIGT.Need to put oil in it & start
it up.

- Doug
 
DrEntropy said:
He'll grin 'n bear it, methinks.

How YOU doin' Mikey?
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Doin' Ok, thanks Doc.! Bit tired, lack o' sleep! Back an' forthin' twixt the coasts...takin' care o' Mum AND clients...Phew (Mum's easy for now though thanks to sister morphine!) Poppin' in here when I can!
 
Well the Crypt Car is broke down and up on jack
stands again waiting for parts. I spent the day
using my OTHER red vehicle, Tres Gatos with some
fishing pals

Tres Gatos.

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Finished up on the JP-8 storage.
 

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CLASSY, lee!! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/laugh.gif
 
Whee!! Second and last day of our drivers school, and pretty uneventful. We like it that way. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/thumbsup.gif Just a couple of minor mechanical failures, and I don't think anyone lost more than a lap or two of track time all day. Schmoozed with "Racing Girl" and her hubby after the event, passed out a couple of BCF cards, and drank a couple of the beers a grateful student brought.
Sunny and high 70's all day. Now I've got a little impetus to finish my "new" car.
Great weekend!! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/banana.gif
Everyone should be so lucky!
Jeff
 
Been working / traveling like a dog and tending to the new wrenchholders when at home...

I can document ONE hour spent in the garage since December. Folks are coming in to visit for a week soon and I hope to get some sanity back from the garage then.

Not sure when I'll ever get this gal back on the road at this pace.
 
Got back from 2 days of flagging at the Nelson Ledges driver's school....

2 Brits there this weekend....A TR-6 & a Spit.
They both had all-nighters Saturday....

The 6 had its points close up & a fuel pick-up problem.
And the Spit. guy tore off his collector after a scenic drive at 12. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif

But, they both got signed off.......
Welcome 2 more LBC racers! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/thumbsup.gif
 
Saturday I was out all day in the Miata with the Miata Club.

Sunday I was in Williamsburg, Virginia at the British Car show. Photo here:

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I very much enjoyed living in Virginia. Williamsburg was always a good experience. Lots of autocrossing in the Tidewater area, too. *sigh*

WhatsThatNoise said:
And the Spit. guy tore off his collector after a scenic drive at 12.
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Close enuff to the pits for a short walk! Did he need t' scrape th' cow dung off'n his undercarriage? /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif
 
After two horrible weeks in NY...I'm back and washing all my cars up a bit. Did the CGT yesterday and the XJ6 I just bought..today the B gets scrubbed and waxed, told my wife she has to do her bug vert herself...she thought that was funny. I have five cars...all VWs..to prep and paint, and since the bodywork is complete on all of them I plan on doing one every couple of days. saving a 66 hippy van till last. It and a 71 super beetle vert are both going to the same person...a GI that has orders to move to South Carolina.
 
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