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I responded to an add on Craigslist the other night. I went to buy a complete driveline for a Rover SD1. It was intended for a V8 swap into a TR7, but the son who was to do the project moved away and left everything in his parents garage. As I pull into the driveway, there is a well cared for 99 Miata. I'm thinking these people must be real sports car fans. The father opens the garage door to reveal a completely jam packed garage with the motor and tranny I bought hanging from the rafters. Once that was loaded, he starts pileing in more boxes of stuff into the back of my truck. I notice, completely buried, a red familiar shape. I say "is that a T series MG?" He says it's a 52 TD, it's been parked there since 1980, and it is/was in great shape, and was stored away properly. He plans on redoing it someday and won't even think about selling it. Sad way for such a fine car to spend it's life. I knew of a XK140 that sat like that from 1965 until the owner passed a couple of years ago. Car was moved by the son, and now I don't know where it is.
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T-Series Some people ? Sad 52 TD
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Sad, I remember a Sprite by me growing up, that I relentlessly tried to buy and years later they gave it away for $0. It sat outside until junked.
Always have fond memories for that poor little guy.
There is a GT6 here just sitting and it also bothers me. I have offered free services to get him running, thinking that it will spark the owner and he has declined.
Pat
Always have fond memories for that poor little guy.
There is a GT6 here just sitting and it also bothers me. I have offered free services to get him running, thinking that it will spark the owner and he has declined.
Pat
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I tried to buy a 1932 Chevy deluxe 6 wheeler once that had been setting in a guys back yard for a year or two. He said it was his dads and he was going to fix it up one day. It was in beautiful shape! I went back a year later and it was still in the same spot. I offered him a high price for the car and he refused. I saw the car about ten years later, looked to be in the same spot with weeds growing up through it, rotting to the ground. They had a body by Fisher with a lot of wood bracing in them and a rag top insert and once that goes, it's all over. I could have made his dads car look like new again. Oh well, some people you can't figure out. He was too dumb to even cover it up.
As a kid grwoing up, there was a Mercedes-Benz sitting on a parking pad at the end of the alley behind my house. It was parked there the year before I started kindergarden with 43,000 miles on the odometer. It sat there until I was in High School and I tried to buy it then, but the man who owned it said he couldn't sell it to someone he knows. A couple of years later, this guy died and I found out what was wrong with the car...he lost the keys to it. Here's your sign!
tony barnhill
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Well, I guess it could be said I've got a few of thse....seriously, when I run across something like that, I make sure to leave my contact information.....you'd be surprised how many times they contact me months or years later.
