> On Apr 14, 2020, at 8:03 AM, Ken Waller <[email protected]> wrote: > > Good looking vehicle, in great shape, a shame it’s just sitting there.
Yes it is, and I only need two things to get her back on the road, time and money. > > > -----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. > -- 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.
