Glamour Shots.. '62 Valiant Wagon
8/1/24:
I ran the car at the PVGP Countryside tour today.
Got up early as usual to clean the car, get fulled up etc...
This year in our driving group, It was all British cars and the '62 Valiant. The group consisted of a '62 XKE, a MGB, and an Austin-Healey Sprite.
We traveled about 200 miles of back roads, crossing over the mountain ridges a few times.
We found at the first stop that the Sprite had loose manifold nuts causing a vacuum leak, The MG Driver somehow had an extra fine thread nut and a washer, got things tightened, and then we were back on our way.
There is always an eclectic mix of cars at this event. Since we had a bit of a longer route than some of the other participants, we left earlier and I did not get a bunch of pictures this year.
After our tour was over I stopped by Eriie's house on the way home. He Bought a Mint Green '62 Valiant Wagon with a lancer Dash in it off of FB a few years back and flipped it on BaT. I bought some leftover trim bits off of him in February for my Wagon.
I told him that if I was back over on his side of the county, in the neighborhood, I would show him the car.
I kept my word - I met the dude for like ~10 Minutes in Feb of this year.
We drove past his house and sure enough, his garage door was open.
He checked out my wagon and we talked cars and Bikes for about an hour - He has some neat bikes that I have not really ever seen.... well ' 'cause I don't know bikes.
It was a good tour, and meet up with Ernie! The wagon ran great, with no problems, whilst beating on it hard for a good 100+ miles, and made it home with nothing imperative to fix on it this week!
It was a great day.
8/1/24:
I ran the car at the PVGP Countryside tour today.
Got up early as usual to clean the car, get fulled up etc...
This year in our driving group, It was all British cars and the '62 Valiant. The group consisted of a '62 XKE, a MGB, and an Austin-Healey Sprite.
We traveled about 200 miles of back roads, crossing over the mountain ridges a few times.
We found at the first stop that the Sprite had loose manifold nuts causing a vacuum leak, The MG Driver somehow had an extra fine thread nut and a washer, got things tightened, and then we were back on our way.
There is always an eclectic mix of cars at this event. Since we had a bit of a longer route than some of the other participants, we left earlier and I did not get a bunch of pictures this year.
After our tour was over I stopped by Eriie's house on the way home. He Bought a Mint Green '62 Valiant Wagon with a lancer Dash in it off of FB a few years back and flipped it on BaT. I bought some leftover trim bits off of him in February for my Wagon.
I told him that if I was back over on his side of the county, in the neighborhood, I would show him the car.
I kept my word - I met the dude for like ~10 Minutes in Feb of this year.
We drove past his house and sure enough, his garage door was open.
He checked out my wagon and we talked cars and Bikes for about an hour - He has some neat bikes that I have not really ever seen.... well ' 'cause I don't know bikes.
It was a good tour, and meet up with Ernie! The wagon ran great, with no problems, whilst beating on it hard for a good 100+ miles, and made it home with nothing imperative to fix on it this week!
It was a great day.