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Next morning was the trek home and (other than the Toronto traffic) this was the only real bummer... Driving through the hotel parking lot to head home, we hear this click-click-click from one of my rear tires. Stopped for a quick look only to find a screw stuck in the tire. After trying to pull it out and verifying that it was in fact punctured all the way through, we drove to a local Canadian Tire where they pulled the rear wheel off to patch the tire: And here's my souvenir. My "screwvenir": Thankfully after that time consuming and frustratingly expensive false start, the rest of the trip was uneventful. Got to stop at Bullfrogs Brewery in Williamsport, PA, where I got to sample this: So I'm home, tired, poorer, and trying to catch up on the forum and other things. Great meeting new friends. Getting together with past friends, and missing all you that couldn't make it.

Next morning went to visit Grannyknot. We hiked through miles of wilderness to view one of his Z car projects: Mr. and Ms. Blue left early to do some additional sightseeing in the area, but Granny treated GGR and I to a fantastic Canadian surf-n-turf!! After leaving grannyknots, GGR and I went to Muddy York Brewing Company. Great microbrewery not far from the hotel. Here's a shot of the operation: Next morning was the Peoples Choice show and we tried to gather the ClassicZ forum guys for a picture. There were more of us at the show, but couldn't get in touch. We were able to gather about ten of us: Here's our ClassicZ table at the closing banquet:

Your valve seats should "mate" to the valves, like staking ice cream cones. Comparing your intake seats to the exhaust seats you can see the "steps" in the soft bronze the valves have caused over the years, it's a lot softer than steel. I don't think you'll get them out hand lapping them. If you could take the head and a valve to a machinist and let them at least look they might could face them $50? You've already taken everything off.

I was kind of wordy. My basic point is "match the set of parts by quality and life expectancy". If you install new seats to last 20,000 miles (2 years) but the guides are only good for 5,000, you're not getting what you thought you were going to get. The way to do it, I'd say, is to inspect everything, make a list of what's needed and what gets you where, and execute a plan. And if you have an undesirable head, you might not want to spend any money on it. I'm just the voice of economy. I ran my coolant leaking N42 head for 20,000 miles on two cans of Barr's StopLeak, instead of pulling the head to replace the head gasket (when I would have also found that the head was warped). Then replaced the whole engine when I got tired of it and was sure that my spare engine was in much better shape. I was in your boat at the time. Low cash flow.

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Got just a few things done this weekend. I put the seat belts in. Also removed the seats and cleaned and lubed the rails so it would move back and forth nicely. I did a touch-up on the wood part of the steering wheel. Will probably do the black parts a little later this week. I installed the horn assembly with the horn guts just because I had parts. Will have to remove it all to finish the black on the steering wheel, but that is fine. Also riveted in the door ID plate. I added some of the parts to the vent assembly panel, but not ready to tackle that yet. Maybe next weekend. Here are the pics.

Site --- You bring up a very good point. I'm the events coordinator for the Austin Z club and so have been very involved in the planning of this event for next year. As it turns out, a number of us brought up this same suggestion for basically the same reason (heat) and we did consider doing something both earlier as well as later in the year. A couple of reasons drove the decision to host it in June. First, it was felt that doing it outside of summer would significantly impact the level of attendance that we would get as that tends to be a time when people take vacations from work. Second, June in Austin is typically very nice and not like Memphis. I was at the Memphis event and it was brutal especially given the high levels of humidity. Typically Austin is not like this especially in June. Over the last few years we have had great weather in June with temps in the 80's and 90's but with very low humidity. I agree that July would have been closer to a Memphis experience (without the high humidity) and so that's why we targeted June. In any case, hope that helps to explain the thought process that went into this. Hope to see a lot of you there next year. It should be a fantastic event. Mike.

All I see on my screen is "Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah."

$1,000 ! Man, that's like finding a Piccaso at a garage sale.

but the question is... is that car even available for $60+K?