You'll never believe...

[Adam58]

You'll never believe what I found on my desk when I got home from work today!

A big box of papers and cloth!

You're thinking "alrighty, then... he's lost it."

Well, it seems the PO of my YB came through at last! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/shocked.gif He sent me all of the records on the car from when he bought it in 1987 from a gentleman in England through when he sold it to me this year. Thousands of dollars and pounds-sterling in receipts from Abington Spares, Moss, NTG and many other outfits. Probably 100 photographs of the car in verious stages on dis-assembly and re-assembly as well as a huge binder of newsletters from the the Y Register, an original owners manual and the English registration from 1955 to 1967. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/banana.gif

The 3 cloth items were spare material for the seats and real curtain and a sweatshirt with an airbrush of the car. The sweatshirt is totally tacky but way cool, nonetheless!

Tomorrow, it's change the wasted steering rack boots on the Y /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/hammer.gif, photograph the (non-squished) fenders on the wreck and then start painting the new shed that we just had built because we can't afford a garage like Steve S's. (At least we will be able to keep 2 MGs out of the weather by getting the accumulated non-car stuff out of the garage.)

Before I ramble further, I bid you all a good night! Adam

 

[DrEntropy]

Very neat, Adam! Great to have the "paper trail" of the car.

 

[vping]

How long did you wait? I purchased my TD in 2000 and am still waiting. I'm still in contact with the PO so there's still hope. Records he has go back to 1956 when they bought the car but who knows what else he has from the PO to him dating back to 1952. Pics I think have to the coolest part.

 

[Adam58]

It's only been since July - it just SEEMED like years! Your's must seem like decades!

I'm just thrilled that he followed through. He's the first one who has done what he said he would do after the money had changed hands.

 

[vping]

The car meant a lot to this family and the Mother who is actually the one who purchased it in 1956, really wanted to see go into the right hands. The son also drove it and he cannot get to mums as she is close to 90 and stuff is all over the house. Every time I email him he asks about the car and send him photos of how it's going. Hopefully I can get it road worthy before she passes. Her health is not all that good. I really should be working on it and not the '74.