Tinker Day
Saturday morning found a small gathering of enthusiasts at Robert Allred's house down in Riverton. Bob had shuffled some cars around in his garage to make room for the day's activities, but not too much tinkering actually occurred. Those who did show up spent some time admiring a few cars from Ed Oblad's Lotus collection, including an Elan coupe Bob was working on, the Caterham 7 autocross car, and an Elise just back from the recent IVR weekend at Wendover, sporting several new cone marks from a few laps done at full chat by a certain Spitfire racer, who had some trouble with the course markers.

Pugs Pivirotto rode down with Gary Lindstrom in the Jag, intent on assembling a Spitfire rear hub assembly. For want of a decent oil seal, that job went unfinished. Ryan Geertsen came down in a Triumph Spitfire in need of some attention, along with Randy Parker. Randy does own a British Car, a Healey 100-6, but drove down in a nice Corvette coupe. Mark Bradakis fussed with the distributor and the Weber DGV carb on Ryan's car, getting it to run and idle a bit better. Another half dozen or so watched the activities, offering advice, comments, observations and such. Larry Bishop motored down in a sharp looking Jaguar XJ12C, and mentioned he'll consider hosting the Fall Tinker Day. We'll see how it works out. In addition to those mentioned attendees were Todd Pixton, Wade Ashley and Jon Hermance.