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Chris' 128 sedan for attention.  (You're probably tired of seeing P3P by now!) Followers of P3P's progress may remember that brake pedal adjustment was on the agenda.  The pedal was way too tall at about 20 mm above the height of the clutch and significantly further for the throttle, making heel-toe downshift blipping impossible.  This was dangerous, too; the possibility of not being able to hit the anchors quickly enough in an emergency was significant. This shows how high the brake pedal was when compared to the clutch.  The brake / throttle disparity was far greater! Why this was so is anyone's guess!   Mine is that there's a non-original part in the system - maybe a close-enough-is-good-enough brake booster from another car - for instance.  Either way, something didn't quite measure up. An inspection of the set-up that transfers the right-hand-drive pedal action to the left-side-mounted brake booster failed to find the splined shaft that I was...

I'm reliably informed that the 6th of March, 2022, is the 50th anniversary of the Jensen Healey and am therefore very pleased to be able to bring you these photos of two excellent examples - plus their proud owners - taken at a popular monthly car meeting in Sandy Bay, ten minutes' drive from Hobart's central business district in Tasmania, Australia.  The Jensen-Healeys on display were accompanied by a Jensen Interceptor , along with a host of other classic, sports and performance cars.  Happy birthday, J-H! Above and below are several photos of a beautifully restored Fiat 850 Spider.  Coincidentally, the car that replaced the Spider in Fiat's line-up - the X1/9 - shares its 50th birthday with the Jensen-Healey, having also debuted in 1972.  I know this, as I plan to attend a celebration of the Italian mid-engined masterpiece's big-5-0 in Canberra in April.  More on that next month ... . The quality of this Bertone-styled Spider's restoration is first ...