This may be a new one for the local shuffle. We have driven 3,000 miles in the past 30 days, but not more than 200 miles in any direction from Toronto, Ontario. This small pocket in southeastern Ontario seems to be the hot spot in Canada for population center, traffic, car clubs and workshops. Car clubs are sometimes spread out enough to form various local groups, but most of the local groups are still in southeast Ontario. We treat the local groups like separate clubs and try to visit all of them in turn. We count so far 23 clubs in Ontario for MGs and all-British cars. British Saloon Car Club of Canada has at least four groups in Ontario (and several more across the rest of Canada). Ontario MG 'T' Register also has at least four local groups in Ontario, all in this southeast corner of the province.

1955 Mercedes 300 SLR (likely a replica) in Kincardine

Looking at 30 clubs and groups in Ontario, I think we have hit 18 of them in the past six weeks. Also count two dozen shops in Ontario catering to vintage British cars, and we have visited twenty of those, not done yet but getting close.

We have touched only a few friends individually, as not many have a hand up, so also have not been tinkering with many cars (for the same reason). We have dropped in on a few cruise nights and a few Car Shows. July 14th found us in Kincardine, Ontario for a British car show (with 20 cars) presented by Kincardine And Area British Car Club at the Lighthouse

Vintage Gasoline torch ("blow torch" in our workshop manual)

Blues Festival. Lots of music and people, like a street fair for a few days, good fun for us for one day only.

Next day we were at the Canadian Transportation Museum & Heritage Village near Essex, ON for an All British Car & Bike Show presented by the Windsor-Detroit MG Club. I thought I counted 55 cars and a dozen motorcycles, but registration said more like 80, so I must have missed a few. The Heritage Village was a nice stroll through history with a train station, town hall, jail, blacksmith shop, barber shop (operational with $5 haircuts), doctor's office, some old cabins and a few frame homes, a Church, and of all things an old automobile sales and service garage from more than 100 years ago. Unfortunately, I didn't have time to get into the museum, and chat at the car show kept me busy most of the day.

Rescuing a Morgan with failed ignition

A rare Triumph Continental

A week later, as a matter of temporary boredom we dropped in on a cruise night at Canadian Tire in Ajax, ON. More than 100 cars there with lots of fairly modern muscle cars and street rods, a hand full of vintage American cars that had not been converted to rods, and by golly half a dozen vintage British cars. We parked near an MG TD, and had an MG Midget back up to us, then found an MGB and a TR6 and a Metropolitan (Hudson Met I think).

Triumph 1800 Roadster (with rumble seat)

2012 DC Texas Delorean (real USA factory issue) (Continued on page 21)

One interesting find here was a 2012 build date Texas DeLorean. Yes, really. Apparently, they have been assembling DeLorean's in Texas, beginning with lots of parts leftover from the collapse of DMC in Ireland many years ago. And now they will be building new DeLorean's with a modern engine to meet current federal standards. No more dodgy slow, think 200-300 HP