Citron Stephen DeGroat Lugoff, SC (367 posts) Registered: 10/23/2007 09:43PM Main British Car: 1970 MGBGT V6, 7004R, AC, matching trailer 3.1 liter |
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Money report: We have over $500 in the roadmaster account. I' just giddy with excitement.
steve |
Bill Young Bill Young Kansas City, MO (1337 posts) Registered: 10/23/2007 09:23AM Main British Car: '73 MG Midget V6 , '59 MGA I6 2.8 GM, 4.0 Jeep |
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Rick and all, I volunteered myself and Bill Davidson and Don Bonar to host in 2013. Tentative plans are for a location in Omaha, NE as they have facilities and places of interest there that KC lacks. I'm still a working stiff, so lack the time necessary for all the planning at this point. Will be retiring in Aug of 2012 if all goes well and ready to have some real fun.
We'll have "Omaha's Wild British V8 Kingdom" in 13. |
mowog1 Rick Ingram Central Illinois (1523 posts) Registered: 10/17/2007 09:36PM Main British Car: 1974.5 MGB/GT 3.9l Rover |
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Bill....from what you sent me earlier, it looks to be a fantastic meet in the Kansas City/Omaha area!
Can I meet Speedy? Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/09/2010 12:58PM by mowog1. |
kstevusa kelly stevenson Southern Middle Tennessee (985 posts) Registered: 10/25/2007 09:37AM Main British Car: 2003 Jaguar XK8 Coupe 4.2L DOHC/ VVT / 6sp. AT |
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Rick , I would suggest you and several more drive over to Lincoln to visit the Speedway Museum. That place is awesome! After I left your house last year, I drove to KC and then up to Lincoln to visit. You can visit the Speedway counter and purchase an item and get admission to the Museum w/o charge. The parts invoice is your ticket to enter.
BTW. is it Speedy Bill Young or Speedy Bill Smith??? |
Bill Young Bill Young Kansas City, MO (1337 posts) Registered: 10/23/2007 09:23AM Main British Car: '73 MG Midget V6 , '59 MGA I6 2.8 GM, 4.0 Jeep |
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Kelly, that's one of the attractions on the list for 2013 as well as some go kart racing and some track time at Mid America Motorplex. Still a lot of details and cost information to be ironed out over the next couple of years so everything subject to change of course.
Speedy Bill is well into his 90s now and I don't know if you'll get to meet him or not by that time. Let's hope we can. |
mowog1 Rick Ingram Central Illinois (1523 posts) Registered: 10/17/2007 09:36PM Main British Car: 1974.5 MGB/GT 3.9l Rover |
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BlownMGB-V8 Jim Blackwood 9406 Gunpowder Rd., Florence, KY 41042 (6470 posts) Registered: 10/23/2007 12:59PM Main British Car: 1971 MGB Blown,Injected,Intercooled Buick 340/AA80E/JagIRS |
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Sometimes things just work.
Free Sample!! Today a 6 ft length of 1-7/8 x 1-7/8 .077 wall square tubing is shipping out of Aladdin Steel as a freebie. I promised to let them quote my next tubing order in exchange and that might be a win for both of us. But at the very least it means we now have the sections we need to complete the bumper supports (also the ones for my car). Not bad for hard to find material, this time the internet search came up roses. The material will be cut to length, checked for fit and adjusted as needed, welded to the bumper backing bars with gussets as needed and set aside to be marked and drilled for the securing bolts when the car comes back. JB |
BlownMGB-V8 Jim Blackwood 9406 Gunpowder Rd., Florence, KY 41042 (6470 posts) Registered: 10/23/2007 12:59PM Main British Car: 1971 MGB Blown,Injected,Intercooled Buick 340/AA80E/JagIRS |
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Maybe sometimes.
Oh and I need this requisition signed for 500 cases of socks... or was that scotch... Got a call from Terry the other day, he wanted the grille and bumpers and to ask a couple questions. After hearing the grille was in sorry shape he offered to buy one so I said sure, you can do that if you like. The square tubing came in right after that and naturally it didn't quite fit. So I had to resort to some blacksmithery to make it do so. Luckily I was able to take care of that, then pulled the bumpers, along with the ones off the '69. The overiders were in sorry shape and I know most of you don't like those anyway so I removed them, then went and bought some stainless carriage bolts and fitted those, boxed everything up and shipped them out, along with some instructions for mounting the front bumper. Terry said he was thinking about blacking out the trim. (said something about red with black trim and a black racing stripe) I said it sounded OK to me. If he does that he may use the split rear bumper, which has the license plate lights in the ends of the bumpers and that would solve the light problem, but we also need to figure out what we are going to do for front turn signal lights. The old ones are pretty crappy. JB |
Bill Young Bill Young Kansas City, MO (1337 posts) Registered: 10/23/2007 09:23AM Main British Car: '73 MG Midget V6 , '59 MGA I6 2.8 GM, 4.0 Jeep |
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Jim, let me check with Bill Davidson on those turn singal lights. He converted his GT to some custom LED types and I think his originals were in pretty good shape.
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Bill Young Bill Young Kansas City, MO (1337 posts) Registered: 10/23/2007 09:23AM Main British Car: '73 MG Midget V6 , '59 MGA I6 2.8 GM, 4.0 Jeep |
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Latest from KC. Bill D doesn't have any good turn signal lamps for the car. He is a VB dealer and will extend his discount to us if we want to order some from them.
The Tire Rack declined to offer any support for the project, so we're on our own for tires. Any ideas? |
flitner John Fenner Miami Fl (168 posts) Registered: 03/11/2010 10:58AM Main British Car: 1972 MGB 350 CHEVY |
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I might have some in decent shape that might clean up good. I'll also look into the boxes of spare parts that came with the car when I got it.
I just have to dig them out of the shed when I go get the Xmas stuff out this weekend and I'll let you know! |
BlownMGB-V8 Jim Blackwood 9406 Gunpowder Rd., Florence, KY 41042 (6470 posts) Registered: 10/23/2007 12:59PM Main British Car: 1971 MGB Blown,Injected,Intercooled Buick 340/AA80E/JagIRS |
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Some of the guys have been using some aftermarket lights. I'm pretty sure I saw them on Dan's GT. Anyone have info on those? We don't have to go with the stock lights, as the original holes were fiberglassed over and we'll have to drill and cut for them regardless of what we use. A surface mount light of some sort would mean the least work.
JB |
flitner John Fenner Miami Fl (168 posts) Registered: 03/11/2010 10:58AM Main British Car: 1972 MGB 350 CHEVY |
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I was thinking that the holes were glassed over, I only dug back about 5 pages to see if you wanted early or late type. Either way I'll look around.
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Dan B Dan Blackwood South Charleston, WV (1007 posts) Registered: 11/06/2007 01:55PM Main British Car: 1966 TR4A, 1980 TR7 Multiport EFI MegaSquirt on the TR4A. Lexus V8 pl |
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danmas Dan Masters Alcoa, Tennessee (578 posts) Registered: 10/28/2007 12:11AM Main British Car: 1974 MGBGT Ford 302 |
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The lights on my car came from Factory Five Racing, and are the ones used on their Cobra kit cars. Part #10621
One of the best improvements made to the looks of my car, I think. |
BlownMGB-V8 Jim Blackwood 9406 Gunpowder Rd., Florence, KY 41042 (6470 posts) Registered: 10/23/2007 12:59PM Main British Car: 1971 MGB Blown,Injected,Intercooled Buick 340/AA80E/JagIRS |
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Those do look good, but would require even more work than the oem lights.
JB |
Bill Young Bill Young Kansas City, MO (1337 posts) Registered: 10/23/2007 09:23AM Main British Car: '73 MG Midget V6 , '59 MGA I6 2.8 GM, 4.0 Jeep |
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Jim and all, what about something like these lights, item 3906 on the page. $25 each plus we'd need the low current flashers for LED lights.[www.taillightking.com]
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/03/2010 01:30PM by Bill Young. |