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How 'bout making a BN3? Then you'll have the lines of the early car with the sound of the six... Six cylinder engines are far more common and can be made to fit into the early engine bay with a little cutting. If you have sentimental attachment to the body panels then may as well make it a bit kosher as it'll be a fairly involved restoration when compared to buying a running car. Andy.
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Travis, your story sounds very familiar. Back in the early 60's I was selling a '56 Healey with little action on the sale. One fellow came buy and made me a pretty good offer and I let him have it. Soon after I found out he torched off the body with the intention of building a V8 "Cheetah" which of course, never happened. Whole project turned into scrap. (We are still friends and he recently built the worlds only V8 Pinto roadster). Bob
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Well Travis.....I think you why you bought the structure in the first place... since it was your dads car from new...why not take your time and find as many factory original parts and bring it back to life! As near correct as when your father owned it. There are parts cars out there! If you did not intend to restore it to stock condition... what is the whole point?
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Travis,
I am in process of restoring a car that used to belong to my father. He was not the original owner (that would have been a neat trick seeing as even he was only 10 years old when this car was built), so I think you have something really special, well beyond what I have. Although my car was not nearly as bad as yours, the jury is still out until the car is completely done whether or not it made financial sense to restore it vs. buying one that is done. Since I bought the car nearly 20 years ago when they were still mostly worthless and found a very reasonable restoration shop, it might actually be close...but still probably not. For you, I don't think so even if you do a lot of the work yourself.
Family history adds a lot of value to the car in my opinion. It was my Dad's car, now it is my car, and someday it will be my daughter's car.
I understand the financial pain of trying to put a car like that back together. However...I agree with drambuie, if the only thing that's the way it was when your Dad owned it is the VIN tag, what's the point?
I would be more inclined to try to put the chassis and body back together from original style parts and take liberties on the drivetrain. I feel that stuff could be more easily undone in the future if things change for you financially. I would also be more inclined to put an early American V8 drivetrain in it rather than an MG drivetrain. Why? Because someone would have actually done that back in the day, no one would have transplanted an MG drivetrain IMO.
Later,
Walt
p.s. when I say "early American V8", I'm thinking an OHV engine like a Fairlane V8 or 283 Chevrolet, not a flathead.
I am in process of restoring a car that used to belong to my father. He was not the original owner (that would have been a neat trick seeing as even he was only 10 years old when this car was built), so I think you have something really special, well beyond what I have. Although my car was not nearly as bad as yours, the jury is still out until the car is completely done whether or not it made financial sense to restore it vs. buying one that is done. Since I bought the car nearly 20 years ago when they were still mostly worthless and found a very reasonable restoration shop, it might actually be close...but still probably not. For you, I don't think so even if you do a lot of the work yourself.
Family history adds a lot of value to the car in my opinion. It was my Dad's car, now it is my car, and someday it will be my daughter's car.
I understand the financial pain of trying to put a car like that back together. However...I agree with drambuie, if the only thing that's the way it was when your Dad owned it is the VIN tag, what's the point?
I would be more inclined to try to put the chassis and body back together from original style parts and take liberties on the drivetrain. I feel that stuff could be more easily undone in the future if things change for you financially. I would also be more inclined to put an early American V8 drivetrain in it rather than an MG drivetrain. Why? Because someone would have actually done that back in the day, no one would have transplanted an MG drivetrain IMO.
Later,
Walt
p.s. when I say "early American V8", I'm thinking an OHV engine like a Fairlane V8 or 283 Chevrolet, not a flathead.
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