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    Joe, it must have been something to see all those Jaguars racing around the track. I have seen maybe thirty or so racing in the USA in the club classification. It is something like watching bumble bees racing, same car, but all different colors. Speaking of the Jaguar, I changed out the shocks today. I was surprised that the old shocks still had life in them, but they were pretty worn. The rubbers were perished for sure, like gum. I believe the shocks where original to the car. I am going to see if they can be rebuilt. They are both made by Newton, SK1743U, and marked 11/52 and 12/52. Made in England. The new ones are on. Took about three hours to do. I took my time and did it right. Only real difficult part was removing the big wide nut on the top of the shocks, especially where it close to the steering box. Sure glad I have a boat load of old tools. I had to use several including a big open end wrench from the 1923 McLaughlin Buick. In one of the pics you can see a little knob on the GAZ shock. This is the adjuster. I have them set in the middle, so it should be a little on the soft side. A quick update. Yes the shocks can be rebuilt for $385 each. I think I will just put these on the shelf and pass them on to the next owner.
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    It is Wednesday, AM, on October 14th. Today I am going to tackle putting on the new front shocks for the Jaguar. Yesterday, I made Alice a happy girl. I moved both enclosed trailers from the front of the house to the back pasture behind the garage. Now the front yard does not look like a tractor/trailer rest stop on the interstate. Oh, some good news. The clock in the Jaguar started working again. Yahoo! Here is a video I found on YouTube about the early racing years of the Jaguar XK120. Even some color film back then and I spied a pastel green OTC model. No roll bars either, scary to seem then in the corners on those skinny tires. It is a good watch.
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    Well I did it. Submitted the concours application and pictures of the cat to the selection committee. However, I don't think we will make hotel reservations until we know.
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    Bernie, looking very good. Question: What is the status of the drive train components and engine? Do you have enough pieces for a complete engine?
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    The AACA judges just posted the awards. Here is how we did. Class 25A First Junior 1957 Austin-Healey ..........................................James Lesher, Doylestown, PA Second Junior 1956 Mercedes-Benz ........................................................Bryan W. Shook, Enola, PA1957 Jaguar.................................................................................... Henry C. Ver Valen III, Sparks, MD Third Junior 1953 Jaguar...................................................................John Feser, Marshall, VA We are happy and honored with the award.
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    It seemed like everyone was taking pictures at Hershey. Lots of pics of the meet on the web. I even came across a few of us. I cleaned up the Jaguar from the two days of show and she is now back in the garage. If I get time over the next few days I will put on the new shocks. I also wrote a note to the Kiawah Island Concours folks and asked for an application/invitation to attend.
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    One car really caught my eye. It was brought by a local restoration shop, Blue Ridge Motor Werks. www.blueridgemotorwerks.com Looks to be done to a very good standard. A true British design at it finest.
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    It is PM on Sunday, October 11th. Just arrived home from attending the annual MG sponsored Hunt Country Classic in Marshall, VA (our home town). A well attended local event. The weather was great. Sunny and about 70 degrees. Perfect car show weather. Here are some pics of some of the cars. I estimate that there were about 200 British cars on display.
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    Dale, thanks. Great picture. It was quite a treat to run the spectator gauntlet coming into the show. Going out was even more intense as lots more folks watching all the cars leave the show field. An awesome experience for us.
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    One final note. Another guy was looking at the Jag and spent considerable time observing the people around the car. At a break in the action he came over and introduced himself as the co-chair of the Kiawah Island Motoring Retreat Concours in April. He said that he would like to see the Jaguar there and to call him if I wanted an invitation to attend. It is in South Carolina, a two day jaunt for us. Just might make that call. Here is their web site. http://kiawahislandmotoringretreat.com/
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    And here are a few more.
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    It is Sunday, October 11th, AM. Another Jaguar/All British car show today. Thankfully, the car is all ready to go as I removed the hold down straps this morning. Only a 30 minute ride through the local countryside. Weather looks to be fantastic. It was a fun time a Hershey yesterday. Met lots of people and even a few that follow the bog every day. There were so many really nice and rare cars you could not even count the number. The number of pics I took do not do them justice. One quick story, a guy came back to the car a couple of times and asked lots of questions, and then he asked how much for the car. I threw out $85K if I ever decided to sell. He said that he would take it at that price, and he was serious. Like I said, an interesting show for sure. I have his card. We always had a crowd around the Jag talking and laughing. Alice never stopped greeting folks and giving them tours and sit in's of the car. She would make a great car salesperson for sure. Oh, we were the only XK120 in the class, there was a very nice XK140 FHC there also, that was it for the Jag representatives. I was really surprised that there were not more XKs. Anyway, here are the pics I took. I just snapped away to give you some idea as to the volume of cars in attendance, some I have no clue even what they are.
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    I was surprised to find a Triumph Italia on Ebay. Here is the link. It is also a very nice car. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Triumph-Other-Coupe-/171960367535?forcerrptr=true&hash=item2809a2f9af&item=171960367535 And here is some more detailed information. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_Italia Now if I could just find one in my price range ................
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    David, great to see you and Greg. Loved the blue skies and the beautiful cars. I have never seen so many great cars, it boggled my mind. We just got home, 8 PM. Left home this morning at 4 AM so we are a little jet legged right now. I saw one car that I fell in love with. Here are the pics. Will post all the others tomorrow.
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    David, I did stop by on Wednesday, but you were all closed up, and you were no where to be seen. Hope to see you tomorrow.
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    It is Friday, October 9th, PM. Going to hit the sack early tonight. We have to be up at 3 AM and on the road by 4 if we are going to get to Hershey by 7, 7:30 at the latest. I want to be on the field and in position by 8:30. The only thing that we have to do is to remove the four straps holding her down in the trailer, and drive her a couple of miles to the show. The weather looks good, overcast but no rain and 66 to 68 degrees. Perfect. I spent the day hauling junk out of the old run-in shed and into the new garage. Boy, the garage is getting full. I moved in a snow blower, fertilizer spreader, propane heater, and a non running Craftsman mower. Getting the old riding mower going again will be another winter project. It was running great and then one day it just stopped in the middle of the field. It is old, like me. Maybe it decided it was time. But now that the run-in shed is empty I can put Brownie the Van in one of the bays. First time she will be under cover ever in its lifetime. And I did get the moon roof back on yesterday so I hope I have stopped the water leak. In a couple of weeks I am going to order a few body patch panels and see if I can put them in myself. Just another winter project. The new front shock absorbers for the Jaguar arrived too. They will go on next week. Cannot wait to get them on to see how they effect the handling. The shocks on the car now are original, 1953 vintage. On Sunday, we have an all British car show to go to. We have won two mayor's trophies and two first place in class awards the last four years running. The other Jaguar owners are tired of us. Weather looks good for the show. I hope that we get lots of cars attending, the last four years have been sparse as it rained every year.
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    I took 90 some pictures yesterday. You can view them on my blog. http://forums.aaca.org/topic/136755-avanti-r2-1963-refresh/page-164
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    According to my FitBit, I walked a bit over 9 miles today. No wonder my knees ache. These are the last of the pictures. Hope you enjoyed them.
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    Still walking and taking pics of the more interesting cars. It is funny, some people do not list any information about their car. It is up to you to guess what they want for them and perhaps a little history.
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    A few more. Some where barn finds or rather field finds.
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    And a few more. These are the high end cars from Mark Hyman.
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    OK, got my second wind. So here are the first grouping of pics of cars for sale. I attempted to get a price on the cars to give you an idea on what they are going for out here on the left coast.
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    While walking around the parts fields I ran across Hagerty Insurance putting together a 49 Ford pick-up using parts found at the meet. You can follow along on their web site. Here are the pics I took. I think that there are four techs doing the work, two at a time. They have their work cut out for them.
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    It is Wednesday, October 7th, PM. Just got home from Hershey. Left this morning about 6:15 AM and arrived at 10. Dropped off the trailer and the Jaguar at the trailer parking area and then headed into the show fields. Lots of people, much more crowded than previous years. However, I thought the car corral was off. Maybe only a couple of hundred cars, usually the corral is full and has a waiting list to get in. But there were many nice cars for sale. I saw several deals being made. Most cars seemed to be going to Europe, especially Germany. I guess we Americans always look for the deal and wait until prices come down on Friday and Saturday. I took pics, but too pooped to put them up now. Will do that in the morning.
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    And in keeping with the Wright airplane theme, here is a video of the 1909 Military Flyer, Model B.
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