AZCRXSI said:
Any pics of the MGB? 8) :twisted: Purty please!
I bought it for $850 in 1987 when I was 19. It was pretty ratty then and just got worse. Drove it summers through college with brief pauses to rebuild the engine (twice), patch the floors (twice), and slap more Bondo on the body and paint it.
I got rear-ended by a kid in a pickup with a snowplow mount in 1993. Got a body shop to write up a repair estimate for $1600 and somehow it didn't get totalled, and I got a $1600 check from the kid's insurance company. Me and my dad pounded everything smooth, painted it, and kept motoring.
Every year this thing was an adventure to get through Massachusetts' annual safety inspection, and got to the point where it needed a serious front suspension overhaul. So I put it up for the winter in a family friend's barn after the 1999 summer season and just kind of left it there. Fast forward to spring 2011, family friend is retiring to Florida and selling the farm, come get your POS. so we went up and got it and I've been looking at it for the last year and a half much to the wife's chagrin.
Realistically, I could probably have this running and driving in three days and $200. One day to drain the old gas out, one day to figure out why the brakes don't work on the left rear, and one day to replace the collapsed flex line from the clutch master cylinder. The car turns over fine and the rest of the brakes work.
I can register the car as "Historic" like my '90 Miata, which means the registration cost is half and it won't be subject to inspections. Insurance is dirt cheap. Een though the car is a mechanical basket case, I'd like to get it running and enjoy one more summer with it, just puttering around town to get ice cream. After that, maybe sell it, or keep it till the next (inevitable) mechanical disaster. It looks good but realistically needs a lot of work so maybe I could find someone who wants a project to buy it, who knows. Obviously it hasn't been a big priority here (with four other convertibles that start every time and can not get run over on the Beltway, what's the rush?).
Maybe it'll be my winter project assuming it's not a brutally cold winter. You just never know.
But I digress.