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Y'know, there are alot of original Ts out there. I say go for it.

The automotive hobby is all about carrying out your own personal vision, not someone else's. Some people love restoration, some modifying, some both. There's room for all.

I'd love to see this.

As for thet T-series dragster- I'd love to rebuild it as a period drag car. That would be a hoot.
 
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This may be grounds for BCF excommunication, but assuming that I already had a T series car, I would restore that one as a period gasser.

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/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/nonod.gif Hard to get excommunicated for what you say in a pub, it's all opinion anyway that keeps things interesting. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/jester.gif
 
What are you talking about Dar? I've been thrown out of many a Pub! And normally it was what I said that started it all.
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If you have enough parts, keep it original.

If not, build a Ford Speedster (like the one below). I'd skip the MG parts and keep it all-Ford.

Link to more info on old Ford Speedsters:
https://www.nwvs.org

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Not enough there to keep it original..yesterday I was given another B roadster..a 65 model...really rough but lots of parts. While I was inside laying out the frame to beam combo, one of my VW customers asked if I had a spare B drivetrain...said it would look cool in the frame with the T body??? Its a thought, and this is just going to be an in town putter around car. Gotta go now and pick up my 84 380 SL we bought yesterday. Saw it in a pals garage yesterday morning, he had bought it from an estate of a local man who had passed last month. Silver/silver...in mint condition, both tops, garaged its whole life. Told my wife about it over supper and this morning over breakfast she said" Heres a check on my account...go get it" !!!!!!! By golly..after almost 39 years I figured out she may be a keeper!!!!!
 
Love my 380SL - make sure that engine has a double timing chain or you're gonna eat about $5,000 worth of valvetrain! & make sure every 100,000 miles you change the chain & plastic guides it runs in! (Ask me how I know about changing the plastic guides & I'll tell you about being stranded in Kansas City in a blowing snow!)
 
Update...Bought the 380, drove it to the shop and was about to take it for a cruise when my old buddy..a 72 year old atty. pulled up and saw the car. He had just sold one 500 and another was going in a day or so. He has been hunting a 380 for his wife for a while and fell in love with mine..I mean his..He whipped out his check book and I flipped it. It brings his total number of Mercedes to 12. He has them stashed all over town in buildings he owns. Now I'm on a search for an MGA a guy has stored in a small town just East of me...about 15 miles away.
 
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