Newer Directions
Monthly Column of Driving Events
HAPPY NEW YEAR to all my dear MG friends!!!!
I’m sure everyone enjoyed their Holidays with family and friends and you had an extra spectacular celebration to start the year 2020!!!!!
Hopefully, many of you made it to our annual Holiday MG party which was held on January 11, 2020. I will have to recap next month on the evening and who took home the Big Trophies and all the other awards for 2019!!
I am looking forward to our driving season to start up again! Only 4 months away!! PRAY for very little snow and above freezing temps for these next 3 months…BRRRRRR…I don’t even want to think about it…but it’s a coming and there is no way to avoid it, unless you are Reinout & Henneke in Atlanta,Ralph & Sue in Tennessee or Rich & Sundy in Florida. They may be warm in the winters but they are sure missing out on all our fun come the spring and summer!!
I really do miss all of them, but we all manage to keep in touch. That’s the amazing part of this club I love…..we are all like family!!!!
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I will be reaching out to members who may want to organize/host events for the 2020 driving season later this month and next month. PLEASE feel free to contact me with any NEW driving events you may want to host and we will get it on the calendar! (312)927-3155 Jamie@jls-industries.com
LOOKING SO FORWARD to the upcoming driving season!!!!
Safe Travels & “MGreetings”
~~ Jamie Schafer
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Rip Van Wrinkle Project
An awaking of a roadster after 15 years of slumber…
As I mentioned in last months Driveline, I purchased a car that has been garaged for 15 years. Visually the car is in good shape, no visible rust and the underbody is solid.
A technical session was held on November 17th at 1:00 pm to go over the car - bumper to bumper—looking for items needing replacement or servicing,
Since the Tech Session in November, things really slowed down. Yeah, the holidays took time away from the project although I did get out the Moss Motors catalog and started perusing the pages for stuff to order. I took out my notes from the tech session and slowly identified the main parts and associated hardware, carefully marking the catalog page with yellow post-it stickers. I started a spreadsheet of the part names and part number to make it simple to order. I guess I never realized how many parts would be required to complete this project or how much time it takes to make all the notes!
Well, the part list is almost ready. I’ll be checking it over again making sure I don’t forget the miscellaneous hardware required to mount the replacement parts. I worry that after submitting a large parts order, I forget a few simple bolts that would cost me an additional shipping charge. Boy, do I dislike those shipping charges.
I should be setting up tech sessions in January—Stay tuned.
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January 2020
