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The exhibit of “Revolution in Racing†at the California Oil Museum has been extended through Sunday, December 19, 2004, because of its popularity with visitors and car clubs. The exhibition features Formula racing cars and motorcycles from the golden age of British Grand Prix motor racing in the 1950’s and 1960’s. This was the era of some of the most famous names in racing, like Sir Jack Brabham, John Surtees, Graham Hill, and Jim Clark. The centerpiece of the exhibit is a championship 1956 Cooper Formula I Bobtail, only one of five in the U.S. The Bobtail is displayed with a 1962 open-wheel Cooper Formula Jr and a rare 1963 British Lola Formula II racer. Homage is paid to John Cooper’s landmark creation, the Mini Cooper, in a fully restored 1964 Mini Cooper Rally on the exhibit floor. The exhibit details the full scope of British Formula racing in this era with two championship British Formula racing motorcycles: a 1952 Norton Manx and a 1960 Matchless G-50. The exhibit also features a collection of photos autographed by the winners of the early Indy 500’s.
Having not attended this particular event, I really don’t know how good it really is, but it still sounds interesting nonetheless. If you have been, let the rest of us know what you thought and leave a comment!
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I’m sure that by now most of you have already read about this someplace. Turns out there is a problem with some of the emission components on some ’02 & ’03 build MINI’s. I got my official recall notice yesterday.
I’m not due for service for another 6800 miles, so I am going to call and see if I can wait or if I should do this now, you know, before the SCSET cracks down and busts me for pumping an additional .0023 ppm of particulates* into the atmosphere. *not an exact number. In fact, I really have no idea how this part actually causes more bad stuff to exit the vehicle. But, I will get it fixed.
This is a weird one…
I burned a CD using iTunes last month. Popped it into Roxy’s deck and played fine for about 1/2 hour, then all of a sudden I started getting disc errors, or the tracks would delay starting by as long as 3 minutes. I thought it was a bad disc until today. I have another disc that was burned using iTunes that is now suffering from the same problem.
Both CD’s contain on AAC files converted to CDA, without any MP3′s. Both were burned on the same PC using CD’s from the same sleeve on the same burner with tracks from the same local drive. This isn’t a problem that I am having with any other of my iTunes CD’s, and both of the CD’s in question play fine in standard CD’s without a hitch.
Anyone else have this happen?
From the sorry to hear that department, Paul over at One Lap MINI has had to postpone his run in the ’05 One Lap of America! Hopefully everything will be good to go for the ’06 run instead!
Driving home yesterday, I come across a poor lad in a Classic Mini Cooper S (1966 ORIGINAL, not a reshell) stuck along side highway 73. Seems he had a blow out and the jack that comes with doesn’t lift the car high enough to actually allow removal of the tire. He had just purchased the Mini from the Mini Guy in Ventura. Looks pretty good:
Too bad the factory jack we have doesn’t work either.
He had already called AAA anyway, so I waited with him, and checked out the Mini. He said he got a great price since it was pretty rough looking. But it had all the go fast part under the hood, disc brakes all the way around and a roll bar!
AAA showed up, the car was jacked up and spare installed and I was on my way. Hope he made it to his destination ok.
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