We left Watkins Glen Friday night and drove home to Victor in a driving rainstorm. We stopped for dinner in Canandaigua and had a great meal at Eddie O'Brien's Pub and were home sometime before 10PM. I had pre-registered to attend the Sage Rutty car Show in Mendon on Sunday following Watkins Glen as its only 10 minutes from home and typically the last car show of the year for me. I went to get in the MG Sunday but the rear tire was flat and would not hold air. Must have leaked down after we got back Friday. I put on the spare and it was flat too, although held air but had a slow leak. So I pumped the tire to about 38 psi, washed and waxed the B and went to the car show. I kept checking the tire and when it lost 15 lbs of air in about an hour I had to leave. So my last show for 2009 was a bust! My son put in two new tubes at his dealership and found one tube had a tiny crack, and the spare tube was dry rotted. All's fixed now so I went to the local cruise night last week but this time of year there were only a handful of cars. At least I got to talk with our new MG friend with the B he bought this summer.

We had a great time at Watkins Glen Vintage Weekend September 11 2009! My brother in law and I took the MGB down to the town of Watkins Glen for the vintage weekend festival on Friday and we participated in the Glenkhana. We had a great time, did our two laps of the original street course and then watched all the festivities from our favorite spot on Milliken's corner. It started raining just as the race cars arrived but we watched the reenactment, saw the cars on Franklin street and then put up the top on the MG and headed home. I have a video of one of our Glenkhana runs posted on you tube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVhPN3JEERo&feature=channel

My friend Leon came over today with his MGB V8. I drove his V8 and he drove our 1800 MGB. it was an eye opener for me and pretty much what I expected an MGB V8 to be. Other than an odd shift pattern from the T55 transmission it was very cool and very fast. we were doing 60 mph at about 1700 rpm in fifth. Very powerful and I could have driven it most all day in second or third.

The Greater Rochester Triumph Touring club put on the first annual UK Car day last weekend. The weather was iffy but many of our Western NY MGCC members turned out to support them. It was a nice event , well run and over 100 cars and British bikes turned out. My favorite British motorcycle is Norton and there were four of them there, as well as a Dunstall Norton, so I enjoyed that! We had a nice class of MGB's with some really pretty cars. I had thought I might place in the awards, but the winners were all nicer than mine! My friend Hollis has kept his Bermuda hard top on his B all summer and now with the weather decidedly turning to fall he is back in season.

I don't get to the Canandaigua cruise night as often as I do others, even though its close to where we live. I guess I am usually busy on Thursday nights. I did go last Thursday and met a nice guy named Tim with a TR3 from Bloomfield who I have seen around town. He and I have exchanged waves but this was the first time we met. His car was originally from Hawaii and he had it shipped to New York via container. Because I got there kind of late I missed Rod and Doug from our club, who had left earlier.

MG car club Western New York Center members visited Watkins Glen International in July and took three laps of the course then had lunch in the Glen clubhouse. It was a thrilling time, and I really enjoyed being on the track that so many legends of my youth had raced on- Emmo Fittapaldi, James Hunt, Jackie Stewart, Jim Clark, Mario Andretti, Mark Donahue to name a few. Lots of fun and OUR MG ran perfect. Beautiful top down summer weather for the drive over country roads to Watkins Glen, and wonderful views of Geneva Lake all the way home. I posted a you tube video of our third lap my brother in law Dan took. You can see it at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_SDSOqgG7E