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The radiator and a brand new front spoiler are on their way. Cost, $178.45 total including all shipping.

I notified Terry and we talked about the guys. He's handling that end of things but said a letter from us to them after all is said and done would be appropriate, and he appreciates our desires to see that they feel appreciated and respected.

I also ordered a spoiler for my car at the same time and will see how it fits once it gets here, that way we will know right away about any possible issues with fitting it around the new radiator support.

JB

I talked with Terry again yesterday afternoon. They've straightened out and matched the rear flares, bonded one of the front fenders in place and gotten most of the rough sanding out of the way. He thought they might 'glass a wire into the front wheel openings to create a bead there and he wanted to mold the front spoiler in place but I suggested it should be replaceable in case somebody damages it badly. Anyway the work is moving along very well.

A couple of side notes about Terry that some of us might find interesting. He has a winter home in Arizona which allows him to escape the cold from time to time. Perhaps we could put him in touch with Kurt. And he is a very big enthusiast of the SEMA show. (He said of the country's great wonders like Mt. Rushmore and Niagara Falls, the Sema show was about 3rd on his list of must-see sites.) So if a few of you SEMA enthusiasts wanted to contact him, there's one more of our crowd to hang out with. He almost had me convinced to go, but I've got to ratchet up support on the home front before that will ever happen. Still, with a little advance planning, it seems a good thing to shoot for.

JB

You can start planning now for next year, Jim.

SEMA is a MUST SEE for car enthusiasts.

Venue for British V8 2012?  Thinking a few days @ SEMA preceded or followed by a few days of doing our normal thing...  would need a left coast volunteer of course.

You also need a contact to get into the SEMA show. It's not a walk-in type of thing.

I ***think*** that Bill Young is planning on doing BritishV8 2012 in the Kansas City area.

Money report: We have over $500 in the roadmaster account.  I' just giddy with excitement.

steve

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.

I think there's some obscure rule about V8 Meets & the Mississippi River......

Bill....from what you sent me earlier, it looks to be a fantastic meet in the Kansas City/Omaha area!

Can I meet Speedy?

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???

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.

Pete and I saw Speedy Bill at the SEMA show last year (2009). He looked well.

Here's a picture of Vic Edelbrock and Speedy Bill (in hat).

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

You're just like Radar O'Reilly, aren't you?

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

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.

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?

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!

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

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.

http://www.britishv8.org/MG/DanMasters/DanMasters-DO.jpg

Dan indeed does have a different style of lights.

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.

Yes Sir!
Thats why I did the same but I went with the clear lenses.

Whoops!!! busted, did I write that out loud???

Those do look good, but would require even more work than the oem lights.

JB

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.http://www.taillightking.com/hot_rod_light_assemblies.htm