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Mo Pho, Great pictures as usual. How many of those donut skid marks are you responsible for?

I'll let Taber tell the story. Neither he nor Joan were hurt as the bear launched up and over the car.

Every Seven that did the whole route on the GBB had a breakdown of some kind. All were fixed and back on the road the next day including the one that hit a bear and bent the frame. We all jumped in to fix whatever was needed. My breakdown was a seeping fuel injection hose. It was replaced last December so I don't understand where the multitude of small cracks came from, a few of which were seeping gasoline. A quick trip to the NAPA store in Jasper scored a new piece of fuel injection hose for only $17 for 1.5 feet. The only vehicles on the full trip that didn't need repairs were John's Ram pickup pulling the sweep trailer and a Mustang 'vert rented by a British couple who didn't ship over their Seven.

I should have just started yelling your name and honking the horn. I was really burned out by then and probably wouldn't have been good company.

There were 10 Sevens at the start. Most ran all the way to Vancouver Island. Others joined for a day or two. When we gathered at David's Dealership I counted 13, one of which was a scratch built 7 with Alfa Juniou running gear. 1st 7 I've seen with a transaxle. I second everything Bearslayer, er Taber said above. Great time, great people. I have lots of pictures but will have to wait until I get home to post them.

Glen, I just talked to Terry and we wi9ll be leaving Vernon about 9:30 AM.

I had a coil pack failure a few weeks ago 60 miles west of Grand Junction, Colorado. I called Hagerty Insurance who insures my Caterham. they found a tow service and called me back in about 15 minutes. My part of the 60 mile tow back into Grand Junction would have been $500. I said no thanks and called a friend who came out and towed me back to his home on a 12' tow rope behind a Toyota Tundra. I found a new coil pack and fixed it myself and was on the road the next day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vfEi98ii_uQ

Check with Caterham USA, I suspect they will likely have them in stock.

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2013/07/honda-senna-tribute/ There is a second video further down the page that tells how they went about it.

I think the horizontal refers to the bottom edge of the plate being horizontal the ground. A few years back they added this to prevent motorcycles from mounting their plates rotated 90 degrees from the horizontal making them harder for the cops to read.

My Caterham has a front plate but it doesn't meet the 12" above the ground rule in Bob's post. I also chopped off the mountains at the top of the plate and bent the Colorado text part under the chin spoiler. All that is visible is the plate text ONABLAT. I've asked several cops for their opinion and all of them said it was not a problem. I have been driving Miatas without front plates for 17 years in Colorado. I have been stopped 5 times where the lack of front plate has been either the reason or secondary to speeding. I've had verbal warnings about the plate and been told to get it on there but never have. I also have a true story to tell them about why there is not a plate on the front. I bought the car in New Mexico where front plates are not required and when I asked the seller about the missing bracket for it he just shrugged his shoulders and said "what bracket? We don't have front plates in New Mexico". That's when the cop tells me to get a new bracket and get the plate on there. There are places in Colorado where the meter maids are required to check for front plates and ticket your car if it is parked there without a front plate. The airport is one and Boulder is another I am aware of. Its just a revenue generating ploy. Boulder started doing it when we were no longer required to display emission stickers on the windshield and the meter maids could no longer be tasked to ticket us for expired stickers.

Steve, Those pistons don't look melted, they look broken. My guess is enough coolant got into that cylinder to essentially hydrolock it for one compression stroke it breaking out the sides of the piston near the valve reliefs. Were any of the rods bent? How about bent valves, those pieces of the piston probably went out the exhaust valves and likely bent one.

I also have a Tekonsha. It has been on three different tow vehicles over the last six years with no problems. They have plug in harnesses for almost all tow vehicles, no extra wiring required if your tow vehicle already has a tow package with the 7 pin connector at the back. I've installed them all myself.

I think it’s time we got the group together again for some quality time with our Sevens. Same format as last year, meet at the Cars & Coffee (95th & Arapaho in Lafayette) Saturday morning, September 7th. Around 10 AM we will head to my shop in Erie for some tire kicking and tall tale telling, then off to the mountains for a drive with lunch along the way. I’m open to suggestions if someone has a better idea. You don’t have to own a Seven to participate, all are welcome. Anyone interested?

http://www.autoweek.com/article/20130408/f1/130409858

But it looks fantastic!

Wish I could meet up with you lot in Kalispell but my schedule won't allow that so I will see you all in Red Deer.

What a beautiful piece of work and only 64.4 lb. WOW!

and in other news....due to tires flying over fences, spectators have been banned from NASCAR races.

A bit or an overreaction to the camera man being hit by an errant tire from Mark Webber's Red Bull at the German F1 race. http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/108716

3.9 lb/hp! Too much hp is just about right. I'm looking forward to seeing the 'Ring times.

Looking great Mike! Can't be too long now before you are legal and on the street.

The only zerks on my Caterham are on the U-joints on the drive shaft. The front wheel bearings are re-packable and the rears are not. The Miata transmission got a little noisy and I changed out the fluid at about 16k miles and the noise went away. I use Redline MT-90 in the transmission and Redline 85-90 in the diff.

From an email from Factory Five Racing: Gotta be an Iron Butt award somewhere for this guy.