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Dear Art, The valve lash caps with which I am familiar are hardened caps which fit fairly snugly over the end of the valve stem. There is no rigid attachment means. I would expect that the inertia of the cap would cause a slight separation (up to the amount of the tappet clearance) right after the i...

Dear Yangsters, I have asked Bryan to post a similar message on Ferrarichat. This past Friday I received a package from Jeff Allison, Editor of the FCA magazine Prancing Horse containing issue # 171 with the cover photo of my little blue car, my live testa rossa, and me. It was a delightful surprise...

Dear TomK and other Yangsters, The little blue car will be taken to Elkhart Lake by David Carte in his trailer, and after the National it will be kept at Wayne Obry's place until the 23rd of August for the Milwaukee Masterpiece concours. HelenAnn and I will be staying at the Siebkens, right next doo...

Dear Yangsters, The attached photo is one of the reasons I need more room in my garage workshop! These are the awards from Saturday. Tom, let us hope that the car does not have a long memory of that fateful DNF day at Elkhart Lake Road America 500 on 13 September 1959 when the differential seized at...

Admiral Phillips is my hero!!! 48 years of ownership and got his car together before like so many collectors that are 6 feet under before the project (baby) is ever completed. Great Job! Great Spirit ! Great Smile! Great wife (forget about brian, nothing good to say there) and I will donate the pli...

Two weeks and it's Cavallino! I'm flying into town on Wednesday evening, and will be attending the Lecture Series on Thursday Morning at the Breakers. Thursday night, I'll be at the Jet Reception, and Friday I'll be at Moroso. We'll meet at the usual covered pavilion in the middle of the paddock at...

Dear Yangsters,

This is a screen shot with a slight photoshop effect from a video taken by Bryan on the Tour, and here is what it looks like in back and white.

I'll see later how hi the res really is.

Best regards,

Dear Yangsters,

Klemantaski had nothing on Bryan...

Taken in the early part of the Pebble Beach Tour



Best regards,

Dear Yangsters, Tom's description of that great event is so very well done that the reader comes away with a good sense of what driving these early cars was all about. And yes Mike, while reading Tom's story, I did recall driving through that blizzard some 45 years ago crossing the continental divid...

Dear Yangsters, A sound that will stay with me forever is from the fall days of 1967. Between terms at the Harvard Business School where I was working on my MBA, I and five fellow students started to build a six bedroom ski lodge on the ridge across from SugarBush, Glen Ellen and Mad River Glen ski ...

Dear Yangsters, The thread on exhaust sounds prompts me to post this URL : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2052349287986606346 Obviously, with a cold motor you will not hear it sing at high revs, but in any event the Lampredi four has a nice ugly growl in comparison with the higher tones of...

Dear Rudy,

Fortunately I found the right ones of the five.

For those who are still interested, there is a nice write up at:
http://www.highroadag.com/media/pdf/new ... ober08.pdf

Best regards,

Dear Tom, At this moment my plans for showing the car involve Cavallino in January 2009, Reading in May 2009 and the FCA National at Eklhart Lake the end of July 2009. The last time my car was at Elkhart Lake was in the fall of 1959 and it had the differential seize at about the 200 mile point of th...

Dear Tom, Sorry that you were not there with us at FOW for the Open House, but given the opportunity to see Goodwood I cannot blame you for the choice. When it came time to push the car outside to see if it would start, Michael Bayer took over your pushing duties. If you have not already seen it, th...

Dear Yangsters, This thread cannot come to an end without my expressing thanks to all of you who showed an interest in this old car of mine and the trials and tribulations encountered along the way to the finished product. Attached photo is indicative of the kind of support I have received as you ca...