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King,
I don't, generally, speed anywhere. I owned my share of competant motorcycles, and did ride a GSXR 750 to both coasts, and through Canada, more than once.
The old car thing, is just like the old gun thing. They were made like this, once, and I choose to put up with the liabilities and shortcomings of both the guns and the old cars for the pleasure of using either.

Best,
Ted

It's great to read that folks still take the ole classics out now and then. This may be a good time to remind folks that they should only use low octane gas in these motors, and it's a sign of care if the bodies are reinforced with lots of bondo.

Is that like doing tire smoking donuts while wearing a hunter safety orange cap?

Craig,
The California plate on the front of mine is the first plate the car ever had. It was rust free, if faded, when I got it, and the bondo distributer went hungry when I did the paint. It is nice to put a wrench on a bolt in a car from the southwest, and the bolt just comes loose. I didn't know much, but, I knew better than to start with MN cars in the restoration game.
I have access to leaded 101 octane fuel. A gallon or so goes in every tankful, and I hear 'nary a complaint under periods of heavy acceleration.
No worries.

Best,
Ted

Craigd is that bondo thing like when a lady piles on so much makeup foundation it has cracks in its cake like depth to make it a true beauty makeover? And does orange peel or 60 grits sanding marks left in the bondo before painting over it mark a true custom job? It must because I've seen a lot of roughly finished bondo, which gets painted far too early in the restoration process. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder but ugly goes to the bone or in this case frame.

Just saying guys. I guess this isn't the best time to bring up that the biggest and baddest of the late sixties and early seventies came out of the Triumph and MG factories in England.

By the way, nice W30 Ted. I was never the biggest Olds or Chrysler fan, but there're some good memories. Never raced it, but I remember my buddy could easily light up the rear end of his 4 speed W30. It was a '70, the last GM high compression year. Good show wrecking the old bias belted N50's.

I had a good '70 340 'cuda for a bit though I always drifted back to small block Chevy's. Those days are long gone. I don't even feel like putting a chip in my pick up, like that low rpm effortless torque.

Nothing of donuts and blaze orange, craig, just there's skill and speed in bush flying knife-edge in short places out of sight that pilots don't rave on about or leave rubber graffiti..

Sorry Craig. Coventry was the spot and the first incarnation of the V12 E-Type was the car. I spent a lot of time in TR6's and Spitfires. For the money, at the time, Datsun had them both beat hands down with the 240Z. Faster, better handling and no Prince of Darkness involved.

Just to keep on topic, I used to go hunting in the Z car and had boxes of shot shells with me. It could hold a lot. Better field car than any MG. lol

James, It wasn't just the 240z that was a great car. Datun's 510 ran rings around the BMW 2002 in racing competition back in the day. Cost far less, too. Gil

It's been a long time since I heard anyone speaking of Lucas in such fond terms.