This year, as part of the annual maintenance and service, Concours Cars noticed a gentle leak from the radiator. Not really a leak per se, more like weeping from one of the seams. What to do? I could have just left it, but there’s one thing that we battle with in Colorado Springs with a normally aspirated car apart from the sheer hell of tuning it for the altitude, and that’s the heat in the summer. Let’s put it like this, driving on the Interstate (or even around town come to that) in the mid-afternoon on a lovely sunny hot summer’s day, that water temperature gauge starts to go above the 212°F mark. Turn on the A/C and we’re talking approaching the 230°F mark at the top of the gauge. And with the road works we have on I25 at the moment, it’s stop and go sometimes, and I start getting really worried about the water blowing the radiator cap. […]
Minichamps red 1969 Volvo P1800
Earlier on this year, after at least a good three years of looking, I finally managed to score a red Minichamps Volvo P1800 1:43 model. It depicts a 1969 version with the straight front bumpers and so on. I’ve been meaning to take a picture of it on 64SAINT, but for some reason didn’t get round to it until today. […]