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You may also want to try a product called Luster Lace usually available at your local motorcycle dealer (I use it on my laced aluminum-rimmed motorcycle wheels regularly). Similar to the cotton cloth approach, but the strips are impregnated with metal polish and are quite durable.

I'll be showing a couple of small Italian motorcycles at the Quail this year - a 59 MV Agusta (just finishing up the restoration) and a 53 Mondial (!). These two bikes will represent the Moto Giro D'Italia that comes to the United States for the first time next week. See you there Tom.

Tom - I did a front suspension R&R about a year ago. Others here suggested using an inside spring compressor, but they were impossible to find for rent and ridiculously expensive to buy for one job. I was successful in getting a small pair of outside coil spring compressors to work. I made sure a fl...

Nice new layout Kerry, but the drop down menus are not working correctly on Safari. They come up far to the right of the indicated area on the navigation bar and I am unable to roll down over them. I do this for a living, so I realize it is sometimes difficult to get something to work on every brows...

I took a look at the CL post when it first came up, forgot about it, then found the updated post the other night. I don't know what your experience was like, Tom, but after reading the "new, improved" website, the owner (or the owner's wife) sounds like a lunatic. It has been my experience that owne...

one of the tidbits of information I wish I had eleven months ago.
You're the man Tom!

This is typical in other marques as well. Back in the mid-70's the 356 Registry (of which I was an original member) was created to combat the NFOs in the Porsche Club of America. At that time and well through the 80s the Registry was a fun crowd of mostly gear-head, old car appreciating nut jobs. So...

Uh oh . . . the dreaded fuel pump issue. Do a search for my exercise with this at about this time last year. Take John's advice and make sure the in/out lines are connected correctly. (should be obvious, I know . . . )

I agree with most everything said here, but will add my two cents anyway. Someone mentioned in an earlier post the tax consequences on the gain (if any, after restoration cost). There was a good article written in SCM very recently regarding this and it is somewhat sobering. In my case, I'm not at b...

Re: John's view of Morgan owners:
Years ago at a well-known concours event a certain Morgan owner put goldfish in the glass windshield washer bowl. I loved it. People just take these things soooo seriously.

A few years ago I was able to contact one of the previous owners of my car - not the person I bought it from. He told me "I never really liked the car that much . . . wait until you see what I did to fix the clutch!"
I'm nervous.

Steve - I rebuilt my mechanical pump recently in a flurry of unnecessary work to correct a problem eventually caused by a hose connected incorrectly. (did you get that?) It was a very straightforward rebuild, and not particularly difficult. I don't know where the kit came from as I was included in s...

67GTC:
That is true - My Ace was displayed the first and third year (first year they were looking for entries). I also have several motorcycles that were displayed.

Keith

I'll be at the Concorso this year. It will be the first time out for 7137 (even though its not really "done") and it seems the Quail could not make room for me - even after being a participant every year since the first event! I look forward to seeing everyone at Tom's party and throughout the weeke...

Re: Tom's post about tedious spoke polishing - There is a product motorcyclists have been using for years called Luster Lace. It is basically foot long strips of very durable cloth material impregnated with cleaner/polish that you wrap around spokes (per Tom's description). It still takes a while to...