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Get Avons while you still can?

It's our first time here. The museum, staff, and volunteers are all great.

1030 is at the Owl's Head Transportation Museum in Maine for their Wings and Wheel show this weekend. And on display until Tuesday. If you're in the area, they have a good air show that starts around 1pm. If you come in an old car to show admission is free. (Sorry for late notice)

When I said "going down the hill", I should have said "mountain". According to my wife, I-80 goes over the Sierra Nevada mountain range to get from Reno to California (the truck was westbound). The elevation at the Donner Summit (near Donner Pass) is 7,239' (2,200m)...

A Massive tragedy: 40,000 pounds of chocolate was lost in a truck fire in California. https://www.kcra.com/article/semi-truck-hauling-40k-pounds-of-chocolate-i-80-catches-fire-placer-county/44691219 Like the infamous driver in the song "30,000 Pounds of Bananas", it sounds like the truck...

If you want to see the mosquito sculptures in person, they're at the Delta Junction Visitor's Center in Alaska. If you don't want to leave the lower 48, the Barber Motorsport Park in Alabama has a sculpture of giant ant with a motorcycle in its jaws.

The newspapers have obituaries for Léon Gautier, a French commando who survived the D-Day landing. What made me post here is that before the war, he was an apprentice coachbuilder in France and then in the UK. After the war he continued to work in the automotive industry in the UK, France, and...

On my 1965 Mk I, anything that's not blue is painted black. The undersides of the fiberglass nose and tail are flat black.

For those on the other side of the pond, 1 cup = ~237 ml

I've heard it recommended for spraying into the cylinders before storing an engine.

I'm using Be Cool coolant in my GT40. It works down to -26dF and the boiling point is 267dF. A nice feature of Be Cool is that it's compatible with standard anti-freeze so you don't have to carefully flush the coolant system before using it...

Thanks for the links, I hadn't seen them.

Have you considered a brand new crate engine from Ford? https://performanceparts.ford.com/category/56/CompleteEngines

So Cooper bought Avon, then Goodyear then bought Cooper and now Goodyear doesn't want to use the Avon factory to make any more tires? I hope they get a good tax right-off for the factory closure.

I was surprised. After lunch, I found two ribbons on 1030. The first was a purple "Specialty Award". The second was a "Finalist" ribbon. When I drove up to the prize area, 1030 received an award for "Best Performance Car". I was then told to loop around and get in line for a second award...

If you're going to Saturday's Concours de Sport, I'll probably be somewhere near 1030 wearing a white ballcap with the steering wheel GT40 logo. I'll also be at Sunday's Concours d'Elegance, but as a tourist (and wearing the same hat).

Automobilia Ladenburg had an interesting photo of a GT40 from 1966 in today's auction. It sold for 1,700 Euros (well beyond the bid I submitted online). The registration number appears to belong to 1048. It did several races in Italy in 1966, so it's not surprising that Enzo Ferrari and Mauro...

Colin Hyams sold it to Alec Copeland. In the early 90s it was sold to another Australian at an auction. Then in 1994 it was shipped to the US and sold by a Ferrari dealer. I just found some photos of 1030 in Australia that were posted by Colin Hyams to...

How long until she's driving?