John S's Journal

I finally crossed off a few misc. tasks on my list with a day to spare before the Amity Pancake Breakfast & Car Show. 80 mile trip up from Eugene to a city park for a get together with some fellow Oregon members and a nice variety of classic cars, trucks, and a decent showing of British cars. I’d met a couple of the guys briefly over the course of the last few years before Covid but there were some other guys that I just “knew” from the forum so it was good to put faces to names.

I took highway 99W which is a nice 2 lane road through some small towns in the Willamette Valley. Beautiful day and light traffic so it was a treat to get the GT out beyond the comforts of the local roads that I have been driving as I dialed in the tuning of the car after receiving the original 25D back from Jeff and the rebuilt HS4’s from Joe. Having a chance to experience the OD on a long trip was something that I was looking forward to and it made a huge difference in comfort being able to cruise at lower rpm’s.

A 160 mile round trip with zero issues really boosted my confidence in the reliability of my car so I’m looking forward to just being able to jump in it and go now. Took it to have the front end alignment checked and adjusted this morning and my guesswork after the front suspension rebuild was fairly close. Nice to have it dialed in although it tracked and handled pretty well on the trip.

The list of things to do has narrowed down to finishing the front valance which stalled out after the carbs showed up. It’s in epoxy primer just awaiting some time and motivation to skim with some filler, sand and paint. Then the bumper can go back on. A couple guys at the show said to leave it off to show off the nice, powder coated suspension but it looks unfinished to me so I’ll get to it eventually.