Hey Dan, glad to hear that your quick trip went OK ! You wrote:
>Hello fellow scions;
> Just got back from the land of perma-frost. It was a fast and
>frenzied trip! Made it to Findlay, Ohio from Orange, Tx in a little
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This is less than 20 miles NE of Pandora - did you stop in at TS Imports
while you were nearby ? Amazing LBC salvage yard / parts / racing
supplies etc. TS is usually tied up on the phone, though, I don't
think he has very many `walk-ins'.
>less than 19 hours! Real uneventful trip, so far. Then, after getting
>there, came a freezing rain! It has been about 15 years since driving
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Were the salt trucks out ? Didja get your Blue Streak all covered with
dried white dust after a few miles ?
Have you pressure-washed the underside yet ?
>on solid water, I was glad that I was already there. Spent about two
>days there and then we were off to the great white north! We pulled
>into a little town in Mich called Lapeer. (About 20 miles east of
>Flint and 75 miles north of Windsor, Ont. Canada) Spent two days
>there eating everything in sight. Drank too much
>apple cider. (hadn't drank any for the afore mentioned 15 years.)
>Felt like Dumber in the movie Dumb and Dumber! (Thank goodness for
>Immodium A-D!)
> But I digress. 4 inches of snow in Mich while I was there. Back to
>Ohio. Thought about Tom Tweed as I flew past Dayton. Did you see the
Aw, shucks, thank ya kindly...I must have blinked, though, didn't see ya.
>blue bomba, Tom? Got to Tenn just as the worst storm in recorded
>history got there. As we were traveling along I-40 west past the
>Tennessee river, a Herald passed us by. Could hardly believe my eyes.
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What drive-train, I wonder ? 948 4-spd ?? with ground-effects ???
>Had to catch up with it to make sure one of those little bombs really
>passed me up. VERY FEW vehicles pass me on the freeway! Sure enough,
>it was one of the little beasties. It only took 10 miles of all out
>pedal to the metal driving to catch it.
> Finally, we made it into Ms. Got into Jackson hotter than a pepper
>sprout...er... (wrong story) On the north side of Jackson, Ms., on
>the south-bound side of I-55, there is a dealership that apparently
>specializes in Triumphs! Remarkable! You must remember that I have
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Yes ! Found by some 6-packers recently, too !
>now been driving for 15 hours straight! The mind must be playing
>tricks on me! Asked the wife. She said that there were LBCs in that
>thar building. There were 2 TR-6, 1 spit and couldn't make out what
>the other ones were.
> All in all, it was a real enjoyable trip. The lbc's made it all
>the better. Glad to be back in town.
>Dan
>
Thanks for the travelogue; no mechanical problems ? Not that I'd expect
any. New LBC owners, take note! These cars are not inherently fragile.
Yes, Dan is a real mechanic with years of experience -- but this should
show that with some preventive maintenance and a thorough checkout, you
can hit the road with reasonable confidence, considering the age of our
Objects of Affection. Sometimes you can even push the margins and still
get lucky - or at least get home. I drove a TR that still had the orig-
inal 28-yr-old barber-striped hoses on it from Dayton to Indy, around the
Speedway track, and back home -- with Wifey along ! (and a tow bar in
the trunk, just in case !! plus the usual duct tape, baling wire, tools,
RTV rubber, good spare & jack, etc etc.).
Be prepared, like the Boy Scouts tell you to be, and Hit the Trail.
Best regards,
Tom Tweed
SW Ohio
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