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What a perfect Saturday. Warm sunny and no rain in sight for a change. Left the tundra yesterday in the middle of a ground blizzard and today I'm back in sunny socal.

I pulled the B out this morning quickly readjusted the rear brakes and took here out and went down to a friends house to get mid evil on the steering wheel. Finally got it off and replaced with the nice new wood one and enjoyed the ride back. Ended up with 110 more miles on the odo than I started with this morning.

The B's running fairly well needs to be leaned out just a touch on the low end but the high is perfect and she's hauling butt shot up to 90 mph briefly trying to keep up with LA traffic and she was a smooth as glass and still pulling. Only annoyance at the moment is an occasional miss while in 4th and occasionally in 3rd while cruising under 2k rpm.

Tomorrow its suspension and concrete. New bushings and front brake pads and hoses and pouring concrete for a friends new fire pit. Going to be another fun day.
 
Want to come tune mine up for me Stewart? Pleeeeeease? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/devilgrin.gif
 
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/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif You have an OD transmission?!? I can't imagine myself pushing my 'B to 90. I mean my 'B's engine screams 4K RPMs when I do 70'ish. I pushed 75 tonight when I got on 'the 2' going to and from a friends house. I seemed to do ok at "keeping up" with the flow of traffic. My driving today was great too.

I readjusted my float because the 'throat' on the carb was always damp with the setting it was on. The I re-built my needle assembly, because the one that was in there was being held together with a piece of paper clip. Then rest the mixture and idle. Took the 'B out for a spin and was smiling the entire time. The engine ran perfect through the entire spread of RPMs that I hit, and all funky exhaust smells are gone! I even showed a kid in a Honda that it'll take more than a burping muffler to beat me off the line... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

The choke, I'm sad to say seems like it still needs work. The car belches black smoke and idles really lumpy with the choke fully applied, but the engine doesn't stall like it did before. So that's a good thing. I think if I had to find something to complain about is I may have set the idle too low. The 'B was idling at 500 RPMs with the brakes applied, headlights on, and the wipers running. I think I may bump it up to about 6- or 750 with the electricals on. I kind of get a little paranoid when the idle drops that low, because it would never idle that low until recently.

Still, it was a beautiful day of driving for me. Tomorrow, the 'B will be getting her rewards: a bath, thorough bumper cleanings, a wax job, and polish on her brigth work.

Happy motoring folks, and thanks a ton for all the advice everyone has given me so far /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif
 
Beautiful day indeed! I spent the entire day with the GT. Washed it first, then went on a photo tour to Chesboro Canyon, Hidden Valley and Mulholland Highway / Malibu Canyon.

FWIW, I take my B convertible up to 90 nearly every time I drive it. I've had it (in my younger and more foolish days) over 110. Goes like spit and if I had more gear it would have gone even faster! Darn redline comes too soon!
 
dang... nice GT you have there Steve. You get away with driving around SoCal with those plates all the time? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
Plates? Actually I only have one plate. There's nothing on the back! LOL! I've bee too lazy / busy / rained on to finish painting the rear plate bracket. As for the front, I've never used a front plate on any of my cars. Never had a problem either. Driving in the valley is definately no problem. You have to watch out in Beverly Hills because they live on traffic cameras but still they have always left me alone, perhaps because it's a classic car.

As a side note, the plate on the front of that GT, while probably not the actual original plate, is the original plate number the car received when it was sold in December 1967. I have the original tax disc which confirms this. I carry it in the glovebox as a novelty. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
Here's another shot of our beautiful weather at Cheseboro Canyon. Oh, and I snuck the car in the shot again. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

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what kind of wheels are those? it could be the size of the picture or something, but they kind of remind me of classic "Vee Dub" wheels...
 
They are stock MGB steel disc wheels. The only difference from the usual disc wheels is the stainless steel wheel trims. Also, these are the UK-only 5" width as opposed to the usual 4.5" width. Rare as hen's teeth I've been told. May as well keep up on the photo theme, here's a shot of a wheel...

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here is a pic of my B.... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cryin.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cryin.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cryin.gif
can you find it?

mark
 
I will never ever EVER gripe about the winter weather here in STL again. That photo nearly made me cry SU!
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HEY that looks like my house! I say as it's coming down again right now..... Maybe I should see if Layland ever built snowmobiles /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
That GT looks so good in the grey doesn't it? Shame they didn't use that colour for long. Incidentally, the plates that this particular car would have had when new would have been black with silver letter/number combination, front and rear. The plate would indicate that the car is a '68. The white and yellow with black numbers were not phased in until later, and became mandatory in 1973.
 
I have an old photo of the car before it was restored. It had a black plate. Not sure why the previous owner put a white one on, probably for looks.
 
Ahh another 120 mile's added to the odo today. What a great weekend. Got most of the work I needed to do done.
Mine the standard 4 speed and generally I like to keep it under 4k which on mine is working out to about 73 mph. Though a brief sprint is quite fun. Hopefully tomorrow I can install the oil cooler I ordered along with a few other items and then its off to Angeles crest for some mountain twisties. Please don't mention snow I've escaped for a week from that evil white stuff. I'm hoping its all gone when I get back doubt it but I can hope.
 
wow... fantastic view though! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
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