Hello again! This month I'd like to talk about a few experiences I've had in the past. The first occurred on a trip to Oregon to visit friends. When I was preparing to leave, I sat down with a piece of paper and wrote down things I thought I might need for my 68 122S. I wrote down the usual suspects such as tune-up parts and lubricants. I then figured I should look at my repair records to see what was most likely to fail (in other words, what hadn't been rebuilt or replaced). I decided to bring along a spare clutch slave cylinder. I left for my week in Oregon and had a great time while I was there. The day before I was scheduled to leave, guess what? -you got it -the slave cylinder failed. Now, I think I could have found something a lot more fun to do my last day in the Pacific Northwest, but it beat the heck out of calling Triple A and arriving home late.

Another experience happened on a trip to Yosemite national park in my 68 P1800. Again, I did a check list and set off on my way. It was after work on a Friday night, and just after I passed San Clemente, smoke started billowing out of the exhaust. The car seemed to be running just fine. Knowing that the Servo brake assist unit was plumed into the exhaust system and with no indication of anything else being wrong, I bypassed the Servo unit with a small piece of brake line which I had made for this very purpose. As a matter of fact, I made the bypass line about a month before the trip.