Henry Frye wrote:
>
> Greetings fellow listers,
>
> I am quite pleased to report the TR3B made it! We did a total of 460
> miles over the weekend on a one day old head gasket replacement. Never
> touched a tool all weekend!
>
> As for the show, Saturday was a washout, they acutally more or less
> cancelled the festivities around 2:00PM. Everybody left. Sunday was
> really cold, and maybe 200 cars came back. The awards were given, they
> gave away two pairs of British Airways round trip tickets to England,
> and we were off. The weather was so bad on Saturday, Helen and I didn't
> really circulate real well to see all the cars! I think the participants
> choice voting was way off, as many people we talked to didn't bother due
> to the weather.
>
> Never in my wildest dreams would I have pictured my wife and I would be
> sitting in the TR3 to keep dry! Yup, the hood was up, the sidecurtains
> were in, and we were cozy!
>
> I'll guess about 350 cars showed up. They did announce they had all but
> 20 of the preregestrants show up, but I'll bet lots of people came
> without their cars!
>
> I was a bit disappointed with the number of listers who showed up, we
> met Chris Bullock, Phil Barnes, Joe Merone, Keith Erlich and Clark
> Nichols.
>
> For future reference, a bunch of cars with the SOL logo in the windows
> was a curiousity to some folks. Problem was, I am sure they were all
> wondering why all these people thought they were s*** outta luck! We
> have to come up with a better way of identifying ourselves at shows!
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> Henry Frye E-mail - thefryes@iconn.net
> TR3B TCF1927 L http://www.iconn.net/thefryes/
> TR250 CD8096 L A Little Town In
> TR250 CD1074 L Connecticut, USA
Glad to see you made it Henry. I guess the water we saw in the oil was
just residue from the bad gasket?
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George Richardson
'57 TR3, TS15559L
(getting ready to paint - and now on the web!)
http://www.merlingroupinc.com/tr3.htm
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