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Oh, the many times I've said "I'll never buy another MG."
My first car was a '71 B, purchased in 1984. It wasn't running, and we found that it needed a complete engine rebuild. I owned it for over ten years.
In the late '90s, a friend gave me $1500 and a '69 B in exchange for a VW bus (back when a Bus was worth around $1500.) It was running rough and he suspected something serious was wrong. Turned out an alternator bolt had backed out and broken a blade off the fan. New fan installed, and it ran great. One of the best cars I ever owned.
Then there was the Midget. A friend of a friend had it in Coos Bay Oregon in '94. I stopped by to look at it. Not running, not top, ugly, and not worth the $500 he was asking. To be polite, I said "I have no way of getting it home, so 'no.'" Two weeks later he showed up at my door with the car in tow, demanding $500. I paid it. It had an exhaust valve that was pretty much not there anymore, but after some head work and a lot of junkyard scrounging, I got it running pretty well. Drove it for three years, and sold it for about what I paid for it.
So here I am at '61, with a small house and a small garage, a truck, a Chevy Volt, and a Z3 in the driveway along with my wife's and daughter's cars, and this '66 pops up on Facebook Marketplace. Someone's abandoned project. British Racing Every Color You Can Imagine, with the engine half-way installed, being sold by a guy at a wrecking yard who couldn't bear to crush it. $650 with a Snugtop that's worth at least 2/3 that. Wing rot, no carbs, bald Semperits from the '80s, and that paint job that says "I couldn't find any cardboard for the project I was working on, so I just sprayed it on top of the car."
And that's all I have to say about that. I'll let you know when it's running, and I'll have lots of questions.
My first car was a '71 B, purchased in 1984. It wasn't running, and we found that it needed a complete engine rebuild. I owned it for over ten years.
In the late '90s, a friend gave me $1500 and a '69 B in exchange for a VW bus (back when a Bus was worth around $1500.) It was running rough and he suspected something serious was wrong. Turned out an alternator bolt had backed out and broken a blade off the fan. New fan installed, and it ran great. One of the best cars I ever owned.
Then there was the Midget. A friend of a friend had it in Coos Bay Oregon in '94. I stopped by to look at it. Not running, not top, ugly, and not worth the $500 he was asking. To be polite, I said "I have no way of getting it home, so 'no.'" Two weeks later he showed up at my door with the car in tow, demanding $500. I paid it. It had an exhaust valve that was pretty much not there anymore, but after some head work and a lot of junkyard scrounging, I got it running pretty well. Drove it for three years, and sold it for about what I paid for it.
So here I am at '61, with a small house and a small garage, a truck, a Chevy Volt, and a Z3 in the driveway along with my wife's and daughter's cars, and this '66 pops up on Facebook Marketplace. Someone's abandoned project. British Racing Every Color You Can Imagine, with the engine half-way installed, being sold by a guy at a wrecking yard who couldn't bear to crush it. $650 with a Snugtop that's worth at least 2/3 that. Wing rot, no carbs, bald Semperits from the '80s, and that paint job that says "I couldn't find any cardboard for the project I was working on, so I just sprayed it on top of the car."
And that's all I have to say about that. I'll let you know when it's running, and I'll have lots of questions.
