Kudos to Greg Leach Vintage Motors...

A shop that has hardwood floors is THE shop to go to :~)

Pretty classy, Jim.

The shop, and the car...

LOL! They moved the car to their lobby showroom. The shop is other side of the red door. 

Lookin' good, as usual, Jim.

The MusbJim Good Karma maintenance routine seems to be working.

Any idea what kind of dizzy Greg put in?

Anyway, Greg is great with detail and tweaked my car (relocated & installed electric fuel pump, replaced faulty dizzy) with his tune-up (valve adjust, proper timing, sync carbs, fan belt, oil, etc.) WOW! I don't believe this car has EVER run as well as it does NOW.Thanks Greg! 

Its GREAT when you have confidence in your mechanic!

Jim, it's amazing what a good carb tune and timing will do to these cars.  Several weeks ago I took a friend in my Speedster to pick up his 427 El Camino that was being fine tuned by a hot rod garage.  The owner had an engine analysis computer the size of my  car.  He liked the Speedster and I told him it had a hesitation and occasional backfire when re-accelerating.  He offered to fix the problem as long as I didn't tell anybody I saw him work on a VW engine, lol.  He spent about 30 minutes on it, and told me to take it for a spin.  I couldn't believe the difference.  Since then it runs significantly cooler, goes like stink, and has gone from 17mpg to 23mpg.  I wonder how many of our cars are operating anywhere near their potential.

P.S.  I'm gonna be at the Tustin/Enderle Plaza Cars and Coffee in the morning around 7:00 with a box of donuts if you or any of the OCer's want to help me eat them.  Mostly older P-cars show up with an occasional Zwart/ Foose/ Walker appearance.  It has gotten a little busier since Aliso Viejo folded.

And when you have a car that is 'showroom worthy', to paraphrase Elaine Benes. 

What's that say about the way it left VS then?

Jim anyone that lives close to a manufacturer or if that cannot happen a great mechanic who knows your car is golden.

But my vote is to live by the manufacturer 

It just makes sense ... the maintenance or these cars simply needs experienced hands.

Especially for sorting it out after a new build.

Any idea what kind of dizzy Greg put in? - @Sacto Mitch

My original dizzy had a bad diaphragm (I hate when that happens) so the advance was not working properly, so replaced with a dizzy with a proper advance mechanism. 

crhemi (Bill) poboiinhawaii posted:

What's that say about the way it left VS then?

Well, in a little more than 2 years as a daily driver, I've logged more than 28,000 trouble-free miles and this is only the 2nd service I've done on it in all those miles. It only recently started to run a little rough so I took it in to Vintage Motors.

Jim- now I'm jealous the improvements Greg had done. I'll need to do the same sometime soon, since I do all the work myself- for financial reasons. 

Tom- I was thinking of asking if anyone would be interested in meeting at the Tustin Enderle C&C; I like your idea better donuts. Unfortunately, I voluntary at the Orange food bank the 1st & 2nd Saturday of the month and will miss your invite. I still would like to have several replic Speedsters there at one time just for a change.

Very cool, Jim. I've never bought a finished car from Greg, but the level of finish of everything I got is certainly excellent! Glad he took care of El Guapo!

Hoping to show everyone a nice turnkey vintage spyder in the smokies this Sept.  I think its going to be a head turner.  Back from paint this week.

I sure hope we get to see it, Phil.

Nice!! Greg mentioned you were bringing the Speedster by for some work. Glad it turned out great! ! !