Thanks Scott. I have been reading, with great interest, many of your postings on the MGE page.
Tom Whitfield

Fraser is camera shy. He wants to wait till he is more together.
Mike

Dear Scott
Welcome to The VRL.
Great looking car :-))
All the best - Stephen

Happy New Year to you too Scott! When did you paint the A red?
Have a good one Buddy!!
Mike

Scott - Robert Joki here from Portland. I purchased on of your awesome custom aluminum seats for my Triumph TR-3 project a couple of years ago. Great to see you here.

The TR-3 is so close, but still on the jack-stands. Everything is better than new, just a bit of wiring left, then you will see me out at the races.
The Penske IndyCar project took so much money, that it is probably a good thing that the TR stayed on the back burner for awhile anyway. - lol

Best Regards
Robert

Hey Buddy! It's not quite ready for pictures.

Dunno, should I be there?

Hi Bob - just found out that I will not make the event. I will try to get the on Sunday to say hi.

Hi Scott
Please create a Vintage 31 Group and invite your SF-SCCA & HMSA friends, Vintage 31 customers and fellow MG owners to join your Group.
All the best - Stephen

Hey Scott -

I was just talking about you yesterday at the PBSCC Xmas luncheon. Gary Anderson was there and gave a talk. Ole had set things up. The group says hello. Also, the buzz was on about Ed breaking his foot (thought that was a while back) and the new hot rods for tearing up asphalt. I've got some Club Stories for you too but not appropriate here.

As for my Elva I'm making progress. I bought all new hubs and rear axles. I've got new long 7/16 studs pressed in today for the fronts. I need to get the bolts to hold the new brakes, but other than that the fronts are ready to be reassembled. I've got a lot of parts on back order for the rearend. Warren got me one axle but it was short by about 2 inches. So I wrote to Moss Motors (where I'm buying the nitride ones) and asked if they need any additional info from me. I haven't heard back from them yet. Mikey got me set up with MOTUL oil and brake fluid, my brand new rims are in hand. The alum floors and your Vintage 31 seats are in. I made a custom switch panel and put some nice fabric on the tunnel to clean it up.

I also wrote to Leigh (the guy I bought it from) and got what history I could for the car and him. I want to put up one of those sandwich boards one day about the car. I also joined HMSA and submitted my medical for racing. I hadn't heard from them so I wrote and asked what was happening. Cris V wrote back that new materials are coming and they'll be sending me everything once they get them. So... even with the travel, Mikey has been pushing me to get my act together. I'm hoping to get most of it completed over the holiday. Bob Walker (the yellow Elva) is going to build my rollbar once I get on the road again. He is just across the highway in PB and has everything there. The only issue at the moment is the darn back orders for parts.

So, I'll be on the track in some condition this year. Still no limited diff and Butch is supposedly getting me headers from back east ( a guy who has the patterns) but I haven't heard from him further. I did get everything else, so I'm not too worried and I'll run it either way. I need to modify the panhard bar per his instructions too, but Bob will help with that also I think.

I travel early in the year (3 trips across the Pacific and then Germany in May). I'm also running in a new car in Club, my "team mate" wants to take ITB before I step up into an ITE car. Another crazy story... a 2nd gen Rx7 with a Chevy V8 @ 650 hp without the supercharger on it yet. Believe it or not, he's checked the rules and it is legal. I'm thinking I'm stupid to get in it but I'll do the testing phase and see where we go from there.

Adios for now. I'll send you a story about my Enduro too in regular email. Sometimes you just gotta laugh. ;-) - Bill

Hi Bill, thanks for the update. Mike has kept me up to date as well. Looking forward to seeing you on the track. First race for us will be in April. Ed is on the mend, and should be ready by then. Our cars are nearly ready for the 09 season. Started working on them in October. Some changes that will make some very positive differences. After 7 years, I have finally sorted the MGAs out. Looking for a sub 2 at Sears next year and a 1:50 for Laguna. Now its up to the nut behind the wheel!

Happy Holidays!

Hi Scott - thanks for inviting Van to join.
Happy New Year - S

Hi Scott,

Good to see you here - I'm surprised how many people I kno are on this site!