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Did you take the Blue Ridge Parkway route toward home?

It was great that you two could join us for the weekend - did you go drive the Blue Ridge Parkway afterward? I've uploaded all 500+ of my MAR pics to my smugmug page - these are reduced resolution images to get them posted in a timely fashion. http://solaros1.smugmug.com/Cars

Trader Joes has a Sea salt grinder for $1.99 in addition to the peppercorn grinder - I picked up a pair last weekend.

What Mountain Pete said - just be sure to ask for Eric....

I have a five foot Hannibal awning on my D-90 and I'm very pleased with it. Last week we were having a car show at work and a downpour came along - I was fine until it started raining sideways.... Instead of standing out in the storm to fold it up I got in the truck and drove over to a nearby...

I have a 1966 SIIA 109" diesel Station Wagon and a 1967 SIIA 88" pickup The wagon is sitting in the back yard with a broken synchronizer in the transmission and the 88's frame is in my mothers garage where it got shuffled to during mid-restoration. I hope to get both of them back on the road...

That was Ross's truck - president of Solaros and it was a spectacular bright yellow soft top - and super-primo is a pretty accurate description. The yellow ones always seem to bring top dollar as well so by that standard a reasonably nice Defender should be in the mid twenties.

Teri Ann pretty much nailed it - except on an 88" I think 235/85R16 is plenty of tire - they are around 32" in diameter and offer low rolling resistance which will help utilize all of the massive power available from the 2.25 liter 4-cyl. The aftermarket electronic ignition I've been thinking...

The parabolics will give it about 1-1/2" of lift. I usually run 235/85R16 tires on my Series trucks - the 255/85's on the car now look a little overwhelming.

Lots to think about - but it's easier to restore these than old Porsches!

Since I'm sorta in the middle of this same sort of thing myself I can offer some bits of advice. I started with a bare frame and coated it with POR15 rust paint and their topcoat. Then I renewed all of the bushings in the frame and added some Rocky Mountain parabolic springs. A rebuilt steering...

I took a good look at the ARB tent during our photo shoot yesterday - very nice tent and it seemed well made. The materials looked very durable. I'd rate it higher than the Hannibal that a friend of mine has. They did a nice job with this one.

There was an outfit that was importing two door Range Rovers back in the late 1970's and early 1980's - sort of like the guys that were importing G-wagens. plus a number of Range Rovers were imported during the grey market boom from 1982-1985. If I wasn't car poor already I'd be all over this...

Mine is a 10-plate unit - I can't remember the manufacturer (think it starts with "S") but the surface area in the flat plate style is several times that of a tube in tube style exchanger like the Helton units. It was what was available on Ebay at the time when I needed one. Its also pretty...

The flat plate heat exchangers are commonly used in several applications, making beer, heating WVO for use in diesel powered vehicles, and heating water with woodstoves. Lots of info can be found on the web. TECH INFO http://www.flatplate.com/pdf/hydronic/FPbrochure9-99.pdf TYPICAL LISTING ON...

I have both hot and cold feeds up to the shower head where I can use the mixing valve to adjust the temperature. I also have a push button off switch on the shower head itself so that I can turn the water on and off without disturbing the settings once you've got it just right. I haven't...

I built the pump and some plumbing into a pelican case and mounted a flat plate type heat exchanger under the hood. I used a conventional utility shower head and have quick disconnect fittings on the hoses. The pump plugs into a power port adjacent to the heat exchanger. We've gotten about 4...

Thanks - A tripod makes all the difference - along with a little bit of side lighting. Here are a couple more:

Not exactly a self portrait - one of my friends took this shot of me that I liked Plus a couple of others with the same theme:

We have a night blooming cereus that rewards us with blooms in July every year. The flower begins to open at dusk and is all wilted by daybreak - peak viewing time is between midnight and 2 AM. Here's an example: