MOTD 5

Got back from MOTD 5 as well as some business related traveling early last week. Kel and I had a great time. Wish that the weather up in NC had been better on Saturday but you can't have everything be perfect. Got a good number of clean runs on the Dragon through out the weekend. Kel and I did a bit of hiking in Joyce Kilmer and plan on doing a bit longer hike next year. All in all a very relaxing week. Much needed considering that I am in a stretch of only being home for 3 out of 16 days. But, if I am not traveling I'm not making money.

Plan on getting a bunch of work done on the cars this weekend (Triumph, Lexus, and the MINI). The idea is to finish the brake work on Kelly's Lexus, rotate the tires on the MINI (fronts are a bit used from the last weekend), and to finish the repairs (radiator hose) to the TR and do some other work (grease whole chassis, wash the car, change the transmission fluid, and change the rear dif fluid. I bought a suction pump to drain the rear dif.)

I'll out up an update after the weekend and may have a new car review depending on what I get on my trip to Virginia

MOTD 5 Time and weekly news

MINIs on the Dragon (MOTD) starts next week. This will be the 3rd year that Kel and I have spent the first weekend in May up in the Mountains with a few hundred other folks who own MINIs. We are looking forwarded to getting sometime off and relaxing. I plan on reading a few Anthony Bourdain books and checking out the new Classic Motorsports mag. We both plan on spending a lot of time sitting outside in the sun and doing nothing. I am sure I will work a few runs on the Dragon in. I am guessing that I will get most of my runs in Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning. After that, I will probably only make tow more runs. The AtlantaMINIs reverse dragon parade and the Midnight run. I'll have an update when we get back.

News from this week:

Still waiting on the replacement parts for the TR. I'm missing some good drop top weather right now and hope the parts are waiting for me when I get back in town.

Replaced the brakes and rotors on Kelly's Lexus this week. Took me 3 times as long as it should have because no one prints a Lexus repair manual and the dealer wanted $300 for one. Next time I have to do the brakes it will only take maybe 45mins to do all 4.