National Collector Car Day at Hemmings Motor News

Sitting at Hemmings Cruise-In

Friday, July 11th was the National Car Collector Appreciation Day, a good day for Mutt to make her appearance at a Hemmings Cruise-In behind the Hemmings Motor News facility on Main Street in Bennington, Vermont. I got there a bit late, and the lot was full, so they were parking cars on the hill across the street, but they announced they had space for five more cars, so I jumped back in and managed to get a spot in front of J&J Auto Polishing. The car got lots of looks, but didn't pull one of the trophies handed out that night. I did have a short conversation with Terry McGean about a possible article in Hemmings Muscle Machines. Pulling the car back into the garage at the end of the night, the odometer finally crossed 250 miles, so starting to work through the 500 mile debug. 

Driving

Sitting in the front yard after a wash and quick detail

Fourth of July was a bust with rain, but Saturday the 5th was a good day to put more miles on Mutt. The goal for the week was to cross the 200 mile mark on the odometer, and she crossed the 160 mile mark today. We took her down to North Bennington in the morning, and took the old Route 7A back up to Arlington, then after a quick stop at home, took my 86 year old mother in law down to West Arlington out by Norman Rockwell's old home and the West Arlington Covered Bridge. Lots of thumbs up from kayakers and folks tubing the Battenkill River.

On the ride home she got a little warm. Debugging showed that the fan harness connector had come apart, and tracing the wire led to finding the ground wrapped around the steering intermediate shaft. Obviously I didn't secure the harness well enough for it to get caught in a moving part.