ROUTE #4 SALTSPRING

By VIR Member Ron Dempsey Trevor Ross thought this email from Ron deserved to be shared

Hi Trevor, Adventurous day yesterday to Salt Spring. We had 4 cars, my 356, Rob's Gullwing, a friend's Fiat Spider and another friend's Alfa Romeo.

We drove up to Duncan, had breakfast at the Doghouse, then went to Crofton to catch the ferry. One of the guys noticed my engine smoking oil in the ferry lineup, so we opened the engine lid and there was oil everywhere. Visions of massive bills danced in my head.

We had time, so we checked things over and found nothing obvious. Added some oil, and I texted Arthur Connor, a teaching friend and amazing Porsche expert on Saltspring, hoping he could help.

He invited us over right away. He had a lift and an amazing shop, ready to go. He discovered that an aluminum washer had failed on the oil filter canister. He reached into a drawer, pulled out a better copper one, and cleaned up the bolt holding the filter cap down. Fixed!

He recommended Mobys pub in Ganges for lunch, so we drove the northern part of the Island on the way there. When we were leaving, he tossed me the keys to his '59 convertible that he's had for 40 years. It's almost a part of him.

I was honoured to say the least and we traded cars at the home of another racing friend, Gregory Campbell. He's building an amazing shop complex on the south end of the Island, and has an amazing array of older Porsches, engines and projects.

After getting a tour there, we headed to the ferry, only to miss one by five minutes. No bother, we found a table at the pub nearby and had a third meal together as a group. It was a great day.

There's also a market near the ferry and they had a wine choice that us manual drivers should love!

With the car trouble, I did about 45 miles on Saltspring, and about 128 for the day from home and back.

Ron

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