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MGA Guru Is GOING MOBILE - (June 16 - June 30, 2019)

Sunday June 16, 2019:
Pulled the choke to start the car this morning, which worked fine, but then couldn't push the knob back in, not even hammering it with my fist. So I had to disconnect the cable at the carburetor end before we could drive the car. Later in the day when time allowed I removed the choke cable from the car, and pulled the wire out of the jacket, finding one strand of the wound wire cable dislodged. When it caught in the jacket, and I was pushing hard trying to return the choke pull, the single strand of wire uncurled a bit and jammed all the way up the cable from end to end, working quite effectively as a one-way catch to positively prevent return of the center cable. Weird would be a good word for this. Left it out of the car, need to order up a new choke cable soon.
Mid morning appointment with Rich Van Der Molen from Oak Park, Illinois at his mother's place in Winfield, IL. The objective today was to revive his 1974-1/2 MGB that had been sitting for two years. This is a factory issue rubber bumper dual carburetor car, kind of rare. It still had most of the air in the tires, 1/4 tank of fuel, and SURPRISE, enough battery power to crank it over. Crank, crank, crank, no start. Checked out good fuel flow at the carbs, so I gave it a good spritz of starting fluid in the air cleaners, and it fired up and ran, fairly well actually. That was a surprise as well, considering the fuel was at least two years old. It was running a little rich, but after a mixture adjustment it settled down to a nice purr.
No air pump or air injection pipes, which is okay. Plumbing to the carbon canister and anti-run-on valve was still in tact, which was good. We had some discussion about the extra air filter on the front tappet cover vent, which was disabling positive crankcase ventilation and purging of the carbon canister. There was a hose connecting venturi ports on the two carburetors, which was effectively the same as two corks to plug the ports. It was agreed to order up three hoses, a "Y" connector and some hose clamps to put this back as original to restore positive crankcase ventilation and purging of the vapor recovery system.

After warm up, a hard blip on the throttle resulted in backfire through the front carburetor. No oil in the front dashpot damper, so that was easy to fix. Then we took it for a test run, and it ran like crap under load, pop, bang, backfire all round the block, so back to the garage. Rich said it ran like that two years go, which is why it was parked. I was about to try a new condenser in the distributor when I spotted another problem.
The ignition coil was mounted nose down on the inner fender, and it had oil cooler hoses covered in fine steel wire braid. The hoses were sagging, hanging down a bit, so one of the hoses was hanging just under the nose of the ignition coil, and the steel braid was apparently shorting out the terminal with the wire going to the distributor. A poke on the throttle would rock the engine slightly causing intermittent shorting out of the contact points wire (same as points closed, no spark). When the engine would rock back the other way it would break the short to ground which would generate spark at a random moment, resulting in fire at random timing.

Gotta say I have never seen that problem before. We found a bungee cord and tied the oil cooler hoses up to the higher end of the ignition coil, and the car ran like a champ. Score one for the good guys.
We had the rest of the day off, so headed for a WiFi spot. I made an appointment for an oil change next afternoon, made some phone calls for appointments later in the week. After catching up email and BBS I was checking on meeting times for car clubs in Ohio and Michigan, where we would be heading soon, and that killed the rest of the day.

Monday June 17, 2019:
Morning catching up on prior photos and notes, and sent navigator off to play with his friends. Ordered some parts for my car, and had them shipped to a friend in southern Indiana, where I expect to be in a few days. 2-pm appointment for an oil change at Pep Boys in Naperville, and for the first time ever (after just 40 minutes) they said "Your car is ready" without anyone asking me how to get in, start it or drive it. Last time it had an oil change here was three months ago, and apparently the same grease monkey is still there. I may get to like this place.
6-pm dinner before 7-pm CMGC club meeting. Dropped off navigator and picked up #2 daughter to have three of us at the meeting. Count heads if you like, I think about 35 people there discussing new members and guests, past events, car projects and problems, upcoming events. Got two requests during the meeting to fix MG Midgets. After meeting got pictures of a few of the MGs present. Then took daughter home and returned.

Spent some time fiddling with the Stromberg carburetor on Tim Schafer's rubber bumper Midget. I recon the primary problem was that it had lost all the oil out of the dashpot damper, so it would flutter at idle and backfire when you punched the throttle. I think there is an O-ring around the needle base that likely needs to be replaced. A little oil in the dashpot worked wonders. Test drive put a smile on the face of the owner.


Tuesday June 18, 2019:
One appointment today, the other MG Midget help request from last nights club meeting. We dropped in to visit Steve "Sparky" Sparks near Midway Airport in Chicago, IL. Been here before, a couple of times. This time the Midget was a problem again. Story was it might run, but very badly. So we tried cranking it up, but no fire. Gave it a good sniff of starting fluid, but still no fire, so must be no spark. Pull coil HT wire from distributor cap, hold the wire end close to the block and crank it, finding no spark. Pull the HT wire out of the coil to do a continuity and resistance test with an ohm meter, finding about 4000 ohms for a foot long resistor wire, which is good, so no problem there. Best guess then was a bad condenser.
Before removing the condenser from the distributor, I thought I'd test it with a new condenser externally. Reconnect the HT wire, connect two jumper wires on a new condenser, ground one wire to engine block, and connect the other wire to the ignition coil distributor wire terminal. Gave it a quick crank, and it fired right up and ran well. Disconnect the external condenser, and the engine died immediately. Verified bad condenser in the distributor (that was easy). Install new condenser, then think about setting ignition timing with a timing light.

We spent way too much time looking for the timing mark on the crankshaft pulley, being very difficult access on the Midget. After a lot of knuckle scraping we finally managed o clean the crank pulley and apply a couple of white paint marks on the pulley for decent visibility of the timing mark. Then finally crank it up and use the set-back timing light to set timing to 32d BTDC at road speed (vacuum disconnected). Then checking timing at idle speed revealed just 6d BTDC at idle. The difference being 26D at the crankshaft, or 13d for mechanical advance in the distributor (which struck me as rather a lot, but it was real).
Then tried to pull a vacuum on the vacuum advance module, but it would not hold vacuum, so figure the rubber diaphragm is bust. Reconnect the vacuum line anyway, and give it another run with vacuum connected, but same results as not connected, verifying the defunct vacuum unit. I don't have a spare vacuum unit, so put that on your shopping list. Sent the owner and friend out for a test run, and it ran like an MG, so all good for today.

Time for a late lunch and chat, nice late spring weather, great time loafing on the patio, no rush, so we killed the rest of the afternoon lounging and chatting. We finally lit out of Chicago 7:30 pm, east on I-55, south on I-90/94, east on I-80 into Indiana, then south on I-65. We stopped for a WiFi break on US-30 in Merrillville, IN (until 11-pm closing time), then headed south again. Immediately lost an hour to change of time zone, stopped two hours later (2-am) near Lebanon, IN.

Wednesday June 19, 2019:
Slept in an extra hour (to compensate for jet lag), breakfast and email check. Going on 11-am (considering the time zone change), still an hour and a half from our next appointment, so need to get rolling again. Arrived early afternoon to visit Eric Sinclair in Bloomington, IN. He is really from Chicago, just cleaning up a house down south in Indiana. We were here to check out an MGA 1600 that "ran when parked", but has been in storage for about 25 years. His father bought this one new, so there is some personal attachment to it, a little, but probably not enough to get it restored. Kind of sad, this one, surely been decomposing gradually all this time. The fabrics are all shot, parking brake seized up so it won't roll, 3-1/2 flat tires (a little air in one), guessing the engine may be seized as well. Had to evict an opossum a while back.

It was once repainted to be BRG. The paint might actually be presentable if the heavy accumulation of dust was cleaned away. There is sheet metal in the body sills, but covered in rust, and if you pick at it you can pull some pieces out of it, so I recon all of the body sills will need to be replaced. Carpeting was replaced with linoleum (unique treatment for sure). Being a complete car it looks like a good restoration project, if someone was so inclined. Eric is going to have to make some decisions if he might free up the brakes and get the engine to run, but pretty sure he will be selling it sometime before winter, whether it gets "improved" of not.


Thursday June 20, 2019:
Our Thursday appointment had called (texted) to say he was busy today, so we rescheduled for tomorrow. That gave us a day off (sort of) which I used partly to catch up with trip log photos and notes, and half of the day doing update work on the CMGC web site for library additions.

Friday June 21, 2019:
By 10-am we dropped in to visit Donnie Oxendine in Huntingburg, Indiana. We were here two years ago. At that time he had just sold a black MGA Coupe and was in the middle of restoring a white roadster. Since then the white car has found a new home, and he has restored a black MGA 1600 roadster. This one is quite nice and may be a keeper. Very nearly complete, not more than 10 miles around the local neighborhood, we were giving it a tune-up.

Having changed the engine from 1600 to 1800, it was a good idea to change the fuel metering needles in the carburetors from #6 to #5. I turned the throttle shaft clamps right side up to get the clamp nuts on top for easy access, synchronized the throttles and gave it a slight mixture and idle adjustment after it was warmed up.

There was the prior 1600 engine sitting around. And I picked up the box of parts I had shipped here, spare head gasket, rocker shaft, rocker arm bushings, not that I need those parts right away, but the rocker shaft has 280,000 miles and is getting a little noisy.
Donnie had a few more toys on hand, like the E-type getting fresh wheels and tires, the MG TD that has won a few show awards, and the Morris Minor 1000 (with 1275 engine, rib case gearbox front disc brakes). Seems like one of two of those may have to go to clear out some space.

We had pizza for lunch, but then Donnie had some family things to do, so we were off to find another WiFi spot for the rest of the day.

Saturday June 22, 2019:
Day off. We bounced from southern Indiana east to northern Kentucky, heading toward southern Ohio. Lots of shuffling of the Planning list for routing to something like 42 shop visits in Ohio and Michigan (and a few clubs and some friends). Intending to do all that in the next two weeks.

Sunday June 23, 2019:
Fielding a few tech questions. Spent a large part of the day composing a new tech page for cross reference for rear hub seals and Speedi-Sleeves for a few different applications. Need to jot down a list of places we intend to visit in the next few days, so navigator can start punching into the GPS.

Monday June 24, 2019:
Our first stop today was Delhi Import Service In Cincinnati, Ohio. Say hello to the owner Carey G Saab. The business card lists BMW, Mercedes, Saab and Volvo listed, but they do work on a fair number of vintage British cars as well. There was a Triumph Stag in the shop today, a bug-eye Sprite on the side, and a modern Mini out front. He said he gets a lot of referrals from other shops who don't want to work on the older cars.

Then we were off to visit our friend Ron Ramer in Cincinnati, OH. We were last here in October 2014 to fix overdrive wiring on his freshly restored MGB, when he was just getting started on restoration of an MGA.

Now that car is finished, and I got to tweak the carburetors a bit. Quaint that he kept one of the original Dunlop Gold Seal tires in the boot for the emergency spare. I think this is the original tonneau cover still in good condition.

We spent considerable time discussing why replacement side curtains do not fit properly, windscreen doesn't align to the side curtains, the new rag top fabric is too narrow at the front and does not reach the quarter turn fasteners on the sides (bad pattern), and the front wood bow in the top is too long (a common malady).

Spent a little more time discussing his MGB with Weber side draft carburetor, fast street cam, Mallory dual point distributor, and why it runs hot. Also how to restore positive crankcase ventilation when using the Weber carburetor. Then we had to get rolling again.
Then we were off to visit Benhase Restorations in Cincinnati, OH. The building number is 11741, but they also have 11743 and 11745 in the same building tagged as "British Imports". The business began with British cars (when they were not yet vintage). When the owner's son got involved the business expanded to include classic American cars (and more). Much larger business now, but they still work on a lot of vintage British cars.




The next shop on our list was a long way off track, and we had a suspicion that it was likely out of business (owner deceased), so we made a phone call first. It was (previously) Hubbard's Garage in Portsmouth, Ohio, but indeed that shop is long gone (maybe 20 years). The current business there is 10th Street Auto Repair, but they have nothing to do with vintage cars, so scratch that one off the list (and save the travel time).
Time for two more stops today (if we hustle), so we had a sprint up the expressway to visit Dayton Wire Wheels in Dayton, OH. We arrived a bit after 4-pm, but apparently they knock off work at 3:30, so the shop was down with lights off. But we did raise someone in the intercom and had a little chat. They no longer deal with motorcycle wheels, but they definitely do build wire wheels for pretty much all models of vintage British cars. Check them out on their web site.

One more stop, looking for Bristol Auto Parts in Dayton, OH. Surprise, the building has a new occupant, so we made the phone call. Some years ago the shop moved to Vandalia, OH, still in business selling lots of parts for British cars, vintage and modern. The business is primarily mail order, so call if you need something. They do a lot of wholesale business with the major parts suppliers. The owner didn't give us a street address,so proceed at your own discession.
We didn't get quite as far as anticipated today, one shop short at closing time. Stuck in Troy, OH tonight with appointment in Covington in the morning. Then we have a few shops to visit in Columbus and Delaware area.

Tuesday June 25, 2019:
First stop today was a visit to D & D Classic Automobile Restoration in Covington, Ohio. Big place with five buildings on site here. But this wasn't all, as there is another location where they work primarily on vintage British cars. So we took a five minute cruise across town.

Here they have the Brit car shop plus a storage building with another 40 or so cars in waiting. Aside from the typical vintage British iron there was a 1923 Rolls Royce the came in with a separate body to be assembled. The body was originally a hearse not exactly matching the chassis, so they had to shorten the bonnet a few inches to fit, chop the rear end considerably, make new seats and most of the interior parts, in the interest of restoring it as a touring saloon (more like an opera car).

Then we made a phone call to chat with Chris Kotting in Columbus, OH. He is the national contact for the Z-Magnette Group of North America. He had not returned an email message, but he did answer the phone. Turned out he was out of town today, so no meeting this time around. I was hoping he might be at the NAMGAR GT in Dubuque, IA in a couple of weeks, but he won't be there either. Bummer. Keep him on the list for next time around.
We had to do some detective work looking for Riverside Motors in Columbus, OH. This would be the ex Eric Jones business (now deceased), which was taken over by partners Bob Forsblom & Peter Spence. That business has long since been dissolved (now an empty lot), and was reformulated as two separate businesses. The first of these is Bradford & Associates, LLC, dba Riverside Motors (still in Columbus), owned by Robert "Bob" W. Forsblom. He specializes in rebuild of MG and Austin gearboxes and engines.

The second (ex-partner) business is Riverside Motors & Restorations, LLC (Peter Spence), in Columbus, OH, servicing MG and Morris cars, repairs, maintenance and restoration. Peter has been at this for some years, first employed in the business, then as a partner, and now as an independent shop. He can provide most any service for vintage British cars, up to and including full restoration.

Addendum: -- Two weeks later, after some digging out, Peter sent along another picture of the mystery car. It is a ˜1962 Austin Healey Sprite race car chassis with a LeMans style bonnet. --
We had an email and a voice message out for a couple of days, finally got a call from Marc Chapman in Westerville, OH. He was out of town for a while, wouldn't be back before Thursday, and we were programmed to be heading into Michigan by then. So we put him on the back burner, possibly for a visit a week later after we get out of Michigan.
We also had a shout out for Clyde Kahrl in Mt. Vernon, OH. At last report he had an MGA with a bad gearbox and a dead tachometer. But we didn't hear from him either, so post him also a little farther down the list.
We had a new referral, Leo Ruof in Columbus, OH. He wasn't at his shop this afternoon, so we met him at his home. He makes some nice restoration parts for Austin Healey (and other related cars), the kind of parts that no one else would do. Bully for Leo.
Then we had another referral, this time a real ringer to another new shop run by a younger guy, R.P.Meier (Bob Meier) in Johnstown, OH (and his business cars emphasizes the "R.P.M"). He is primarily a British Car guy. That's his MGB race car out front. The Alfa Romeo snuck into his shop because it belongs to one of his regular Brit car customers.

In addition to full restoration work, he does some creative stuff, mostly along the lines of improving performance. The MGB with the Corvette LS engine is in the process of being widened several inches, without modifying the doors or the windscreen (nice trick).

We had time for a late lunch (and WiFi break) before our next appointment. In the evening we dropped in to visit David Sheward in Thornville, OH. He has a 1955 MGTF 1500 with a sizzling engine and fat tires, an MGB (hiding somewhere else) with an hotter engine, an nifty Opal GT with some special mods (like air conditioning), and (kind of by accident) a TR7 with some carburetor problems (hiding under the tarp). He also has a large workshop with a lift, which we didn't need today. Since it was evening with no more appointments for the day, we got to chatting on and on until is was past midnight, and we had to be rolling on.


Wednesday June 26, 2019:
Up early for an anticipated long day, we were looking for Andy's Auto Service in Zanesville, OH. At first it looked like we may have struck out, until we had a chat with the current resident of this little shop. He hd been around the area a long time an knew the Andy was still in business, and told us where to find his new shop. I suppose we would have found him regardless, as he still has the same phone number. The new shop is definitely bigger, and he works on other things (with at least one additional tech), but it looks like the "hobby" side of the business is bigger than the "modern" side. He specialized is stuffing V8 engines into MGBs. Cool hobby?


We had a three hour run to look for Antique Auto Battery in Youngstown, OH. That looked liike a bust when it turned out to be an abandoned house with empty lots on both sides, and reassigned phone number. HOWEVER, .... it is not so. I later found out that navigator punched "Raven Ave" into the GPS when it shouod have been Rayen Ave". The GPS then suggested "Ravenwood Ave", which navigator acceped without mentioning it to driver. Ergo, we found the abondoned house. Then he made the phone call, and reported a "reassigned number", which was a second error, as it was the correct (and valid) number but the automatic answering machine said "welcome to Jim's Battery", at which point he gave up and called it duff.
Two days later while catching up photos and notes for the web site, I'm was pretty sure that this is a valid current business, so I did some checking, beginning with their very nice web site. After I beat on navigator for a while I found out what he did with the street address, and I hit "redial" for the same phone number he called, and I found the correct battery company (not a reassigned number). So I have to report that Antique Auto Battery is alive and healthy, ready to serve your antique battery needs. Feel free to check their web site and give them a call.
Better luck in the next place, which was another new referral. We dropped in on Team Triumph: British Auomotive in Warren, OH. In spite of the name, I'm pretty sure they do more business in MGs than TRs. They are primarily a mail order parts house for good used parts (note the cars all around the shop) and new parts as a Moss Motors distributor.

Next was another bust, or in this case a mess up on our part. When looking for Classic Restoration in Warren, OH with street address "968", the best we could find was "988" with an empty lot on both sides, and we had a non-working phone number. Two days later while catching up photos an notes I spent some time searching for more information and found a different phone number. This turned out to be a good number, and the shop is still in business. Apparently the correct location is just 1/10 mile farther down the road, and I think we even turned around in the driveway there without noticing the right number on the mail box. But by the time I write this we are in Michigan 220 miles away. So now we get to put them back on our travel list and take another shot at it later (maybe late next week). Meanwhile, the information is they are real, and they work mostly on Triumphs but also some other British cars.
Then we were looking for English Motor Car Co in East Cleveland, OH, and came up dray again. Building number should have been 1802, but we found 1800 being a huge building the whole length of the block with a lot of unit numbers for various businesses. Many of those shops were auto related (like body and paint shops), but not the one we were looking for. And no one knew anything about it, so it must have been gone for a long time (and disconnected phone number).
Been pushing hard all day long, now out of business hours, but time enough for a personal visit with Don Kuzma in Cleveland, OH. He has a rather rare early issue 1963 TVR Grantura MK III, of interest to me because it uses the MGA 1500 engine (this one changed to an aluminum cylinder head). One significant difference is, the engine is much easier to work on when you open the bonnet.

He also has a very nice Lotus Elan which has been converted to throttle body fuel injection. Just pull the top off of the original Zenith-Stromberg carburetors, and screw the injector body in place. Of course there is also a bit of electronic magic parts to go with it.
Finally evening we could stop to rest with a visit with Lorain County British Car Club at Bullfrogs Sports Cafe in North Ridgeville, OH. had a few nice Brit cars beat us there. The white car is a Turner.

About 40 people inside for the club meeting, a right rowdy bunch indeed, and a good time was had by all. A few more Brit cars showed up during dinner before the meeting. The dark red MGB was for sale.


Thursday June 27, 2019:
Today we have a new shop, JS Performance Motoring in Amherst, OH. Say hello to the owner Jason Sukey. We met him at the club meeting the night before, recommended by some of the local club members. He has been here for a year and a half to date, doing good with eyes toward expanding into the space next door if/when it may become available. Yes, he likes rebuilding carburetors.

Then we were on to a personal visit with Dan Walker in Vermilion, OH. First we had to slip past his personal pet, the nicely restored vintage Dodge Challenger. The building layout is a little deceptive with double depth garage and more space behind, but back in there is the MGA he has been working on for a long time (too many years).

There was a lot of rust in this car, but he has been systematically pecking away at it. The entire frame was replaced with something better. There is some hope that he will eventually get it finished.

There is another MGA tucked away in another part of the garage. I could see it (sort of), but not well enough to get a picture of it. That one is complete and not very rusty, a good restoration candidate. I think he is thinking about selling it, because he will likely never get around to restoring it. Out back is a third one, festering away under a tree. Missing the engine and windscreen and some other parts, it will likely be a parts car and scrap metal; but who knows, these days people are restoring cars we would never have considered 20 or 30 years ago.

We occasionally think about how many of the 100,000 MGA produced might still exist. I like to take a wild guess and say maybe 20,000 that have not yet been parted out or crushed, maybe half of those viable cars running or complete restoreable hiding somewhere. The more I get into this stuff the more likely I am to revise that estimate upward, as here are three of them in one place, and it is not unusual.
Okay, off to find a WiFi spot, trying to catch up with a few days of photos and notes (but not there yet). Late night we headed west and north to cross the state line into Michigan, where we expect to be very busy tomorrow.

Friday June 28, 2019:
First stop today was Dave's Hot Rod Garage in Grosse Ile, Michigan. The MGA in front must have been a good sign. When the shop owner Dave Rudziensky heard I was here he popped right out of his chair to chat. That's him up front. The white MGA turned out to be Dave's car, and it was carrying a Miata 1800 twin cam engine and 5-speed gearbox. It had electronic fuel injection in the Mazda, but now two Weber dual side draft carburetors, and it runs like a scalded cat. Dave loves it and drives it daily. Now that he has it running well he is considering rebuilding the interior (and maybe a repaint).

One step inside the shop, and I was wondering if they were going to put one of those V8s into the go-kart. Plenty of interesting toys in the shop.

Under the tarp was a restored TR6 chassis waiting for the body to come back from the paint shop. The Pontiac GTO was peachy clean, more representative of the American iron they work with. That's Dave's partner with a picture of the MGA he used to race (and I think he bought it new).

Looking for Downriver Sports Car Service Inc in Melvindale, MI, we found a tire shop, and the prior phone numbers have been disconnected. The most recent reference I can find to this business on the internet is from 2009. Shop owner deceased 2011, and yet there are dozens of listing services still posting the obsolete information. Scratch this one off the list.
Looking for Auto Craft in Melvindale, MI, and struck out again. Now it is Care Collision, and these folks don't know anything about the prior shop, except that it has been gone for a long time.
Then looking for Frog Foreign Auto Parts in Detroit, MI, we found Detroit Liquidation, also here for a long time and not knowing anything about the prior auto shop (with disconnected phone number).
Finally we found someone home at Warholak Tire Service in Detroit, MI. This shop has been here for decades, working on our beloved British cars since they we not vintage. And yes they definitely do know about inner tubes and how to balance wire wheels.
The next hope was English Only in Detroit, MI, but don't hold your breath, because this one is gone too with disconnected phone number. Looking for Autocrafters Inc in Livonia, MI, this looks like a case of urban renewal, like some time ago. Currently Schoolcraft College, Academy Training Center, Public Safety Training Complex, multiple buildings, huge. Apparently Autocrafters Inc is so long gone that there is no trace of it on the internet, phone number "not reachable".
Getting closer to reality, we got to visit Michigan Imported Cars in Westland, MI. Nice pictures on the wall from 1966 when they were dealing big time in good used parts from our beloved English cars, and selling new replacement parts as Beck Arnley distributor. Unfortunately not much any more. These days they deal mostly in 2005 or newer used parts, and no new parts. Times change. They may still have some vintage drive train parts, engines or gearboxes, so it may be worth a call.

By 3-pm we were a little farther west to visit Main Street Motors in Ann Arbor, MI. Yes it is still there, but alas they no longer service any vintage cars, so we have to take this one off the list as well.
Been a tough day in the heat, and we needed a cool down break. We were out of the big city into a smaller one momentarily, and not wanting to go back into the Detroit area today, so it was time to pull up the horse and get busy with the photos and notes, and there went the rest of the day.

Saturday June 29 2019:
Week end, and time off from shop hopping, but not spare time. After BBS and email I finlly whipped up my monthly report for the CMGC newsletter, kind of late, but just in time for publication.

Sunday June 30 2019:
Shuffling around possible routing for all the shops we missed in Ohio. Too much to cover in just a few days, so looks like we will have to return to Ohio after the NAMGAR GT. Not many open days off, so this one turned in laundry day (has to happen occasionally). Saw the nice T-bird on the street, couldn't resist the picture.