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I'm presently inside warming up and watching a beautiful Jaguar XK-140 cross the block. Despite the weather this year the attendance for Saturday is very high. Itls been clear and cold here (at least by Arizona standards) and I've seen a much more diverse mix of vehicles than last year. So far the photo count is just shy of 500 and I've covered barely 1/3 of the cars here. As soon as I thaw back out I'll start my next round. My favorites of the show so far are the Kaiser Darrins and the collection of 3-wheelers.

Cheers!
Jody

http://www.theymightberacing.com

I just got word from a friend on the ground at Russo and Steel 2010 in Scottsdale Arizona. Apparently the storms and high winds tonight (and proximal Tornadoes) were enough to ravage the tents with unknown damage occurring to the cars held inside.

Who knows exactly what has happened right now? Noone, the local law enforcement has forced everyone from the Russo and Steel grounds.

Similar issues were indicated at Barrett Jackson, but apparently the only cars reported being damaged were vendor cars.

I'll update when I find out more.

http://www.theymightberacing.com

Soo, you may have noticed it's been quiet around here of late. The holiday season is not the best time for getting a lot of garage projects done. In fact, about the only use the garage has seen for the past bit is getting all of the Christmas stuff out, and now putting it all back in. That and hiding presents from prying eyes of course.

Additionally, after signing my daughter up for her first season of soccer I had the brilliant (or not so, as my wife would put it) idea that hey, if the kids are doing it, so can I! Well, 5 games in to the season I took a bad fall, strained most of the ligaments in my knee and bruised the bone on the area where I landed.

Since my knee hasn't been terribly interested in bending, well, it's seriously curtailed any possible time I may have spent out there. On a brighter note, it seems to be working much better now, so as soon as I finish my end of 2009/beginning of 2010 honey do's we should be back in action out there!

Cheers! and Happy New Year!
Jody

http://www.theymightberacing.com

Today was a good day. Noone's car broke down, so I could work on my own car. :)



This picture is of a set of later Lockheed brakes for the Jensen Healey. These, now that they've been cleaned, sandblasted, painted, and reassembled will go into the current project car. It may seem a little silly, as I'll wind up putting disk brakes in the back later on, but I figure they'll work just fine until I get around to that.

Tomorrow is Turkey Day, so everyone have a safe and happy holiday. I'll be taking a day off from the garage to stuff my face.

Jody

http://www.theymightberacing.com

Yesterday night was spent doing a number of things. For starters, after having removed and replaced the spring caps (coil top) on the spitfire numerous times the dirt and grime on them finally got to me, so into the sandblaster they went! All cleaned up with a coat of POR-15 and they looked much better.

While I was out there I managed to get one side of the rear brakes assembled for the Jensen Healey. I need a couple more bits to do the other side (washers and circlips from Ace).

My buddy Chip came over and we put some new pads in the front of his contour. The transfer went well, but there was a very spongy pedal afterwards. Now the problem in bleeding his brakes was that the bleed screw on the passenger side was busted. So, that's all she wrote on work that night.

Today was spent finding a shop that could deal with the Triumph springs. I finally ended up at the MG Shop in Tempe, AZ. They'll be setting the springs for me tomorrow and I should have them back into the car tomorrow night.

A friend was having problems with her Saturn Vue. All I can say is bloody GM engineers need to be shot, repeatedly! The car needed some goofy ignition switch which was an annoyance to remove, but fairly easy to install the new part. The challenge, however, was the built in car anti-theft. To reset the GM anti theft you have to attempt to start the car, and leave the key in the on position. Then you wait 10 minutes until the security idiot light goes out. Once it does you remove the key and repeat. You have to do this a minimum of three times, possibly four. The fun part, if you don't get it started immediately then it faults again and you have to start over. Well, I guess it works, because I will never steal a Saturn. It's not worth the effort!

With that resolved we opted (Chip and I) to try and get the remains of the broken bleed screw removed from the caliper. 3 hours and a number of broken bits, ez-outs and the like later we finally opted to go buy a new caliper. Chip just got back to the shop after hitting autozone, so it's time to go back out and get the caliper installed.

eesh, one step forwards, two steps back!

Jody

http://www.theymightberacing.com