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DrEntropy

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Took the MGB to a local show Saturday morning, was the only Brit iron on th' pitch. Plenty of Dee-troit examples, with tri-five Chevys and sixties Ford products. Some well executed '37 & '39 hotrods as well.

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Only 2 Brit shows here a year within a 4-hour drive, all the rest are as you describe, hot rods and custom American iron. There is a Jag show in Tulsa that I get invited to, but because I won't drive the TF through Tulsa, I put it in the box trailer if I really want to go.
 
PAUL161 said:
Only 2 Brit shows here a year within a 4-hour drive, all the rest are as you describe, hot rods and custom American iron. There is a Jag show in Tulsa that I get invited to, but because I won't drive the TF through Tulsa, I put it in the box trailer if I really want to go.
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I actually spend quite a bit of time over by Tulsa every year (Fort Smith, Arkansas) I dont think that I've ever seen a British car anywhere.
 
I went to a car show Saturday and my Bugeye And a TR6 were the British cars there. A guy asked me if MEL did the work on my car. I said I didn't know Mel. He said he is the guy talking to the guy with the TR6. Anyway MEL turned out to be the sponsor of the trophy for best foreign and since the TR6 owner did have Mel work on his car he won the trophy. I guess it is all in who you know.
 
The Belle of the Ball to my mind was this '67 Nova. The chassis reinforcing work was impressive. As was the overall work on the car.

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That engine bay looks like it could pass for spare trunk... there's LOTS of room in there!
 
That Nova is a very nice build by an obviously skilled fabricator.
 
Went to the Englewood, FL car show. Drove up and down Dearborn St. but never got out of the car. Some of the hotrods looked interesting but if you've seen one Mustang or Muscle Car, you've seen them all. We went out for dinner instead.
 
pdplot said:
Went to the Englewood, FL car show. Drove up and down Dearborn St. but never got out of the car. Some of the hotrods looked interesting but if you've seen one Mustang or Muscle Car, you've seen them all. We went out for dinner instead.
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:lol:

Have you made it to one of the Cars and Coffee meetups?
 
pdplot said:
Where and when? I'll have to show up in my leased Subaru Legacy. How do I explain that?
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"My Alfa's in the shop." :smirk:

I've not been but a couple of my friends attend regularly. Some Wednesday mornings, in the "touristy" part of old Englewood. I'll get the details and send you info.
 
'"My Alfa's in the shop." :smirk:'

Isn't that the reason every Alfa owner owns at least two cars?
 
waltesefalcon said:
'"My Alfa's in the shop." :smirk:'

Isn't that the reason every Alfa owner owns at least two cars?
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Had to chuckle on that one. Neighbor bought his 25 year old son an Alfa. Son lives 60 miles away. Every time son has a car problem, dad drives 60 miles to fix it. Finally dad bought two more Alfas of the same year and model. Rotates them as spares while he fixes son's Alfa du jour.

oy
 
NutmegCT said:
Had to chuckle on that one. Neighbor bought his 25 year old son an Alfa. Son lives 60 miles away. Every time son has a car problem, dad drives 60 miles to fix it. Finally dad bought two more Alfas of the same year and model. Rotates them as spares while he fixes son's Alfa du jour.

oy
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:excitement: Hahahahaha!
 
So THAT'S what I've been doin' wrong! I've always owned them one-at-a-time. It also answers why on any given day I could choose which Lotus to drive.
 
It would be better if the son could do some to help with his car.

David


NutmegCT said:
Had to chuckle on that one. Neighbor bought his 25 year old son an Alfa. Son lives 60 miles away. Every time son has a car problem, dad drives 60 miles to fix it. Finally dad bought two more Alfas of the same year and model. Rotates them as spares while he fixes son's Alfa du jour.

oy
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David - the (only child) son has never done any outside work. No snow shoveling, no lawn mowing, no shrub trimming. Nada.

But he did get private tennis lessons in high school, parent-paid apartment and all tuition paid during college, new house for college graduation present - and now a new Audi as a "spare spare".

oy
 
I've heard that advice about Harleys and Jags. "Have to buy two, etc." So far, neither the TR6 nor the Alfa have broken down on the road. Yet. The only cars that did in my 69 1/2 years of driving were a VW Beetle (coil - twice); VW Dasher (once-radiator hose and twice- master cylinder -replacement was no good either);Corvair(engine fell out on Route 22); and the champion, my Olds F85 - three times (New Bedford, MA, Greenwich, CT and Route 22 again. Also ran out of gas on the Bear Mt. bridge in my 1951 MG TD due to a burned out warning light (the TD had no gas gauge).
 
Only been driving fifty-one years, all but the first two have largely been in euro-trash. The times one of those had to be carried home "on its shield" can be counted on one hand: In April of 1973 an MGB-GT grenaded its engine on the Mass turnpike, at West Springfield. The Elan +2 snapped a diff output shaft on leaving a stoplight "spiritedly" in '86. The current '78 Spider SPICA injection vapor-locked shortly after purchase in '98, on I-75. That one was subsequently converted to a 1750cc engine and Webers. Diesela has been on a Jerr-Dan due to TWO flat tires. One on Alligator Alley and the spare let go shortly after. That was on a Sunday a few years ago. She got carried on a trip from Bonita Springs (no tire stores open) to our shop in Sarasota. Not her fault!

Other "failure to continue" incidents have occurred but were mere roadside delays, figured out and remedied where they fell. Th' 'Mits once had an incident with the Lotus Cortina having kacked out on the way home from work one eve in '87. She upped th' bonnet and found the wire from coil to dizzy had come loose. Crimped the connector a bit with the multi-tool pliers she kept in her purse (!) and drove home.

I'll leave the tales of "The Kurse of the K-Car" for another time. :wink:
 
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