DPO's Again...

[tony barnhill]

So, I'm out in a '65 MGB pulling the radio console - a perfect thing with speaker grille that looks brand new! Only problem is that the DPO (in this case DFPO) had installed house shag carpet in the car back when!

Well, I loosen the 4 screws holding the console to the car & get my utility knife to start cutting the carpet away - & the juke padding underneath...it was so thick that the bottom of the console was held down by the carpet!

Unfortunately, over the years, the carpet had adheered itself to the radio console so when I pulled a piece of the carpet away, the corner of the console came with it! That console is now in the trash can...think that car will be the next one I crush!

 

[kennypinkerton]

Ahhhhhhhhh Yeahhhhhhhhh who wouldn't love some nice deep shag carpet.....

Just kidding. What were they thinking back then?

My MGB trunk has some loop pile carpeting lining it... definately a 70's home carpet pattern to it too.

The corner of the console couldn't have been epoxied back on, Tony?

 

[tony barnhill]

Yeah, but I can't sell it now....not my style

 

[hottvr]

What does DPO stand for?
Rick

 

[Nunyas]

Dreaded Previous Owner

 

[kennypinkerton]

<mental note to self> Gotta go digging through Tony's trash bin next time I'm up there.

 

[mgbmedic]

So, then, the "F" stands for... Ummm, if you've ever sold a LBC in your life, then that makes you a DFPO to somebody,somewhere,sometime......hey, I resent that! LOL

 

[tony barnhill]

No, you're only a DFPO when you do something like putting house shag carpet in the car! Or stuff a '67 short block under a late head in a rubber bumper car & then change the engine number to 18V....or a myriad of other things that down the road cause somebody to toss the car in the crusher (or in my MG Graveyard)

 

[mgbmedic]

ok, so installing a 8 track Pioneer tape player in a 65 Spitfire wasn't a bad thing (of course I was 16 yrs old at the time and it was 1969)

 

[kennypinkerton]

depends on how bad you hacked the dash - 8-track was a period item though. One of my dad's friends used an axe to cut a metal dash to install a radio (in an old van that didn't have a radio opening) /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif I hope that guy never got ahold of anything valuable.

 

[tony barnhill]

If you actually whacked a hole in the dash that's larger than a DIN opening or cut a new hole in the dash in a place where there was none from the factory, yep you might be....

...heck, were I ever to sell my V8 car, I could be called a DFPO.

 

[jaybird]

Both my DPOs are on this forum. And Tony's one of them.
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[tony barnhill]

Hey, when they're in a holding pattern & you don't touch them, you can't be a DPO! You've gotta actually work on them & drive them

 

[jaybird]

You helped load it on the flatbed, right?
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Speaking of, got any history on the car at all? The guy you got it from, how long he had it etc?

 

[rick_ingram]

I've a friend who purchased a 1974-1/2 Tourer up in Chicago in 1991. It only had 2500 miles on the odometer. It had been advertised in the Roadster Factory's newsletter of the time...he called the number on a fluke that the car was still available....and it WAS!

It was a beautiful example..White with Autumn Leaf interior..probably still had Abingdon air in the tires.

But...the one and only owner prior to Ken was also a BIG CB (citizen's band) radio buff...and had literally chunked a big slot/hole down the middle of the dash from the top of the pad to the console to accomodate his CB equipment.

Ken replaced the dash, and the car still looks as good as the day it left the factory...but man, what a hack job he had to replace!

 

[Bruce74B]

Hey, ya gotta know where the bears are at! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/driving.gif

 

[mgbmedic]

nah, kenny, it was an underdash unit