it gone

Way to go, Bill.

Damn!

Why would a spark plug fail like that?

Sorry for your trouble.

Fingers crossed you don’t have to drop a 302 in it.

OK so Carlisle was an adventure. Thanks so much to Gregg and and Sharon, Al and Rose Ann, Bill (Crash) and Audrey, Dale Schumacher and Bill Ascheman for making this one of the stronger TD showings. Six TDs, outnumbered Speedsters, show’d ’em up. Bill’s car was extra special this year, sitting in the race paddock all weekend and then, when he got…[Read more]

Greg Strain I need your phone so we can connect this coming weekend at Carlisle. Please send me a direct message with it asap.

FYI the HQ hotel for the group is Courtyard by Marriott Mechanicsburg. in Camp Hill. I’ll be based there From Wednesday evening through Sunday AM.

Greg I need your phone so we can connect this coming weekend at Carlisle.

Thanks, Stephen!

OK so: I’m planning on handing out cruise directions via text or email so you can just hit the link on your phone and open the turn-by-turn navigation. This will require the (free) Google Maps app, which I suppose many of you already have and which I downloaded for the first time onto my iphone a couple weeks ago. Seems to work fine.

I just…[Read more]

Yep. They can be shortened, as you discovered. Couple years ago as I finalized my Spyder build I discovered the same issue—the shaft length that had looked perfect in mock-up was, in reality, not quite perfect,

That kit uses a stock Beetle assy. so it was down to cutting the slotted end and re-slotting it for the stock D clamp. Pushed it in a…[Read more]

Could happen! I plan to be there with Bridget.

excellent!

So to clarify the bidding.

Wednesday evening May 10 will be the earliest arrivals and that will include me. Hotel is Courtyard by Marriott in Mechanicsburg aka Camp Hill PA.

Thursday May 11 9:30ish AM will be the Bank Run, an hour-fifteen cruise down some back roads to the First National Bank Museum in Columbia. We’re going to park in a lot ab…[Read more]

Good! you’ll be just in time, Bill.

Update: The Friday run is set.

We’ll set off at 9 am from the hotel parking lot on a no-highways, mostly backroads run to The Louise Arnold Tanger Arboretum where we’ll stroll about the grounds and enjoy the impressive collection or rare and beautiful trees on the grounds of the Lancaster Historical Society (w…[Read more]

Hope you can swing it, Bill. Thinking Thursday dinner will be <span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Theo’s Bar & Grill patio in Camp Hill</span>

Saturday dinner is set. The group will gather at Snapper’s & pick from a limited menu.

Appetizers: Fried Mozzarella 9 – Snappers Nachos 13- Steamed Clams 13

Snappers Crab Dip 16 – Cheese Pizza 1…[Read more]

Update to the Carlisle itinerary.

Thursday, May 11, all are welcome to join me on The Bank Run.

Leaving the Courtyard by Marriott in Camp Hill at 9:45, we’ll take a spirited hour-and-15 minute tour over country roads to the First National Bank Museum in Columbia, PA, where Nora (daughter of the original museum conservators) will give us the $10…[Read more]

Have a great trip, Paul. Give my regards to the Ericsons.

There’s always more to do, Mike.

While the tank’s out, make sure you inspect the steering column crush cage minutely. These are great safety items but after 50-60 years they tend to crack from metal fatigue—particularly if they’re not perfectly in line with the rag joint and the steering box…which they almost never are.

You never see it. At l…[Read more]