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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 […]

Lot of new developments but nothing to say?

we’ve covered a lot of ground with the Pony over the last several weeks, but we haven’t had an opportunity to bring you up to date… here are some photos to keep you going, new posts to follow soon…stay tuned…  

Leadslinger

T-minus two and half months until deadline. We’re moving right along here at TLG, thinking about various projects simultaneously as the time ticks right on by. Lately, we’ve been communicating with the folks over at the United Auto Collision Center (a friend referred us for a paint job), who have been quite unhelpful and unaccommodating: […]