....bleeding hot ....
Also went to the Bromley Pageant, and agree very very hot, my GT behaved well but was getting hot under the collar with the comical marshalls sending us on a full circuit of the venue before parking us next to where we entered the park,
It was a good day with some lovely Mini's on display, plenty of ice cream to keep me cool and managed to sell some parts as well
If I may ask, what is considered hot over there? Or perhaps what temperature and length of drive do you notice your Mini starting to run hot?
It was over 30 degrees C with next to no breeze, my temperature gauge just crept up above its normal position. I had driven about 25 miles to the event but had been crawling in traffic for about 30 minutes.
This warm weather has revealed the problem with a 'fix' I did years ago to keep my nice wooden Cooper logo'd gear knob in place - the insulation tape I wrapped around the threads went all soft and decided it wasn't sticking anymore when I selected reverse 
So do I use more tape...nah. I made a helicoil with a piece of soft galvanised wire, I just happened to have, by twisting it around a bolt slightly smaller than the gear stick thread, then cut it to length and screwed it onto the gear stick. The knob then screwed on nice and tight so no more embarrassing knob fails - hopefully.
