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July 8, 2005: As promised, the Seven was completely ignored for a while.
I was running around the country with the fast Miata for work. The Car and Driver competition went well and there was some good machinery along. Caterham couldn't make it, unfortunately. That was a shame. I was hoping for the chance to crawl all over a CSR.

One of the things I did while in Michigan was exchange my Canadian 1990 Miata (sigh) for an original Mini and drove it home in two days. 800 miles in one day at a 71 mph average in a Mini? Yup! The Miata couldn't be registered in the US and so it had to go. The Mini is old enough to live in the US so it's taken up residence in the garage and will soon claim some web space as well. Between the Mini, the 1966 Cadillac, the 1967 Land Rover and of course the pseudo-Lotus, some might think that I'm stuck in the past.

So what about that little Seven car? Well, this weekend I plan on wiring up the gauges for the 2001 and pulling the differential. If I really got into it I could have the diff modification done this weekend but I think I'll take some time to relax. It's been a long hard haul on cars recently.

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