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Heading more east we were visiting friends in Muscatine and then upriver in LeClair, IA. Next day cross the Mississippi, visit older daughter in Sandwich, IL to pick up the trailer license sticker, and renew my driver’s license, and then high tail it into Oakbrook Terrace, IL for the CMGC Natter 'n' Noggin. Turn out there was disappointing with just four newcomers and none of the regular club members, go figure. Next evening, we dropped into the Vintage MG Car Club of Chicago monthly meeting in Northlake with 20 people but no MGs present (in the rain), other than mine of course.

Next day (June 13) we had a scheduled visit with Ron Bissland in Kenosha, Wisconsin. He has a MGA 1500 that was purchased new in England by his uncle in 1955. Two weeks later uncle was lost in a military plane accident, and the car passed to his brother (Ron's father) who drove it extensively until it was parked in 1971. When Ron's father passed, the car went to Ron's mother. It was offered to Ron's oldest brother, then to his second brother, but neither one had any interest. Finally, in 2012 his mother wanted the car to go away, so Ron picked it up, took it home, and proceeded to restore it. Nearly finished it was missing bumpers and had run just enough to

Ron Ramer MGA 10/9/14, Cincinnati, OH (before)

Ron Ramer MGA 6/24/19, Cincinnati, OH (after)

move on the driveway a few times. We did a few adjustments to the grille and bonnet and boot lid and had the honor of giving it a tune-up to put it back on the road for the first time in 48 years. Yee-Haa! After dinner Ron took his wife for a ride, and she was tickled pink with the short cruise. Next morning their lap-top twins got a ride as well, so I can imagine who will be driving the car some years on.

Treating kids to MG at The Scottish Festival

Next day we had a visit with another friend in Kenosha. On the 15th we attended The Scottish Festival & Highland Games in Itasca, IL with a total of eight MGs (all vintage of course) to compliment eight Jaguar (mostly new models). While there we cleaned and adjusted the carbs on a TD that had trouble making speed on the highway.

On Sunday the 16th I had to extract an ailing choke cable from my car. I since bought a new on but not installed yet. Then we were off to visit Rich Van Der Molen from Oak Park, Illinois at

Oil cooler hose that shorted out ignition coil.

his mother's place in Winfield, IL. Here we revived his 1974-1/2 MGB that had been sitting for two years. It still had good battery, and a sniff or ether and some oil in the front dashpot damper got it to fire up and idle fairly well. But it would not run under power on the street. Further investigation revealed a sagging oil cooler hoses covered in fine steel wire braid hanging just under the nose of the ignition coil where it was shorting out the terminal with the wire going to the distributor. We found a bungee cord to tie the oil cooler hoses up, and the car ran like a champ. Score one for the good guys, a two-year problem solved in an hour.

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