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Three days running and still going (but almost falling apart)
Day 3: depart Little River Inn (sadly) lunch at Boonville finish at Solage Hotel in Calistoga total distance: 189 miles We were up quite late last night implementing a McGyver style fix for the gear oil leaking out of our differential and all over my right rear brake drum. Mike and I filled the hole […]
Half way there…
Left the Redding Holiday Inn in the morning, lunched at Benbow Inn finished the day in room 123 at the Little River Inn (our favorite stop along the entire route)
If it’s Monday, this must be Redding
Day one is complete and it was BRUTAL! We covered 300 miles in 8 hours of driving. The start was very exciting. As the oldest car in the event, we were assigned car # 1 and were the first to depart the San Francisco Fairmont, waved off by the Italian Vice Consul in San Francisco. […]
“Must be in the front row!”
It’s Sunday, the day before the start of the California Mille. Jack and I arrived to learn we have roundel #1, because we will be driving the oldest car in this year’s event. We beat the 1928 Bugatti by one year! Of the 70 cars which participated in the 2013 California Mille, only the first […]
closed for vacation
Jack and I are driving our 1927 Rally in the California Mille this week. We’ll keep you posted from the road.
ready to paint…just waiting for the painter
We finished the paint booth this week. This comprised creating a door (using a zipper) and installing exhaust fans and filters. The exhaust fans create a cross-flow of air in the booth which enters at the top back and exits low in the front near the front door of our booth. I taped some masking […]
It’s been a looooooong week
here’s some of what we did this week:
Burning the midnight oil (literally)…
Jack and I just returned from the garage (at 12:30 a.m.) after a very productive day installing the sub-frame connectors from Total Control Products which are specifically designed to fit the 1969 Mustang fastback. Jack spent about 10 hours on the car today while I had the easier shift (starting at approx 5:30pm). We had already […]
No excuses
It’s finally spring break, which means I now have more time to spend working at the garage. Which means I now have more things to blog about. Which means I should be posting more often. Dad certainly hasn’t let me forget this. But really, there’s no excuse for the lack of communication lately, other than […]
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