Good looking vehicle, in great shape, a shame it’s just sitting there.
-----Original Message----- >From: Larry Colen <[email protected]> >Sent: Apr 13, 2020 7:26 PM >Subject: Re: PESO 2020 - FrankenSpider - GDG > > > >> On Apr 13, 2020, at 3:54 PM, John <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> BTDT ... gotta do it again someday. >> >> I've got a 78 MGB roadster sitting in my basement and a 79 sitting out at my >> sister's (which used to be my Mom's) place. >> >> Short version ... the 79 was the parts car I bought the first time I had to >> rebuild the 78 ... but it turned out to be too complete to part out so I had >> to find the parts somewhere else. > >Would you believe that you aren’t the first person to buy a parts car that was >too good to part out? That has happened to me a couple of times. My room >mate my last couple of years in college had a RHD BGT that he bought for >parts. Somehow that became the daily driver, and the nominal daily driver >became a garage queen. > >Are you familiar with the mailing lists hosted on team.net? >http://autox.team.net/ > >My project car is a ’69 MGBGT, it served double duty as a daily driver and the >car I used to teach performance driving: > >http://red4est.com/jasmine > >When it was last running, with the supercharger on it, it could keep up with >Spec Miatas on the straights. The Ford five speed transmission worked a lot >better than the O/D gearbox. Since it saw more track time than most race cars >it has a custom SCCA legal roll cage. Unfortunately because of a couple of >issues I had to take the motor apart for a rebuild before it took itself >apart. By the time I was done with the rebuild, it had a ported aluminum >head, custom cam, high lift roller rockers, aluminum back plate, lightened >starter etc. etc. I knocked 50 static pounds off the motor, which is good for >about half a second a lap on most of the local tracks (carrying a passenger >slows me down by about 2 seconds, so I use 100lbs = 1 second/lap as a rule of >thumb). > >I expected the rebuild to take a couple of months. I then ran into an >incredible list of issues. Parts being delayed because of wild fires, getting >laid off and not having money, getting a job and not having time, building a >spec miata to race and having neither time nor money, someone crashing his car >into my garage and not having a garage for a year… >The last time I started to make significant progress, my then girlfriend came >home from moving her elderly mom into assisted living, informing me that we’d >need a place to store a bunch of stuff, and that started a three week home >improvement project that took three years to finish. > >Of course, by that time, she had been sitting for many years and it was no >longer a case of just slapping the motor back in. Here are some photos from >the last time I was able to invest significant time in her: >https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/collections/72157622346827887/ > >I used preval sprayers to repaint the engine compartment with real auto paint >rather than rattle cans which just doesn’t last. > >I’ve got some video of her and in her posted here: >http://red4est.com/jasvids/ > > >-- >Larry Colen >[email protected] -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
