September Events

Kansas City All British Car & Cycle Show, September 4th & 5th. The club will have our own pavilion this year. Bring your cooler and a lawn chair. Departure times and places will be given later.

Breakfast at Mahoney State Park, September 11th at 9:30 A.M.

Ice Cream with Her Majesty's Royal Nebraska Patrol at Goodrich Dairy Store, 48th and Pioneer Blvd, in Lincoln, September 9th at 7:30 P.M.

Fish at Ricky Sue's, formerly the Union Bar Friday, September 24th, 1999 at 7:30 P.M.

Flatwater Austin Healey Club All British Car and Bike Show September 26th. 10:30 A.M. - 4:00 P.M. at Lincoln Public Schools District Office Parking Lot, 5101 "O" Street, Lincoln.

Austin Seven Cooper

Phase V

(The Pause for Racing)

By Frank H. Grover II

(July, 1999) With mixed emotions I had relocated the Mini to the back of the building so I could get on with the task of preparing the MGB and the BJ8 for the 1999 Racing Season. I had intended to race the BN6 100-6 this year at the "June Sprints". However, while the Machine Shop (Kevin Taylor in Glenwood) where I took the engine block to be bored and have the cam bearings renewed expressed good intent; whenever I stopped by during the next 18 months to pick it up, all I could get out of them was "I will call when it is ready." I had gotten a racing cam from British Parts Northwest, a lightened flywheel, and was converting the intake over to the three carbs (MGB) from Austin Healey club members at the Lincoln Swap Meet (1997). The Austin-Healey 300 MKII and the MGB HS-4 carbs vary slightly (fuel mixture needles and minor linkage components).

The BJ8 for some reason still not known had stopped running on Lap 8 or a 22 Lap race at the 1998 Labor Day races at Heartland Park, Topeka, Kansas. Following a flat tow to the Paddock and a 30-minute rest it sprung back to life. Not wanting this to happen again I replaced most of the ignition (a switch, the coil, points, and coil to distributor wire) system and went to a duel (parallel) pump fuel delivery. I made my usual three-day trip to Elkhart Lake with overnight stops at my friend Richard's farm at Mabel, Minnesota and my sister's at Pardeeville, Wisconsin. This was to be our biggest yet family

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