Dan DiBiase SEZ -
> Eric, why can't you have an 'original' car AND drive it? I am restoring my
> '65 B to factory specs but plan to drive it... Don't have room for a
> museum piece and have no interest in it being a concours car!
I agree with this. I'm trying to make my MGA as original as it
can be (with the exception of the 5-main HC 1800 engine installed
by a PO). But I'm keeping the mechanical tach and can easily put
a 1500 engine in it later to make it "pure". One of the things
I've always loved about old things in general is the "time travel"
element - the ability to experience the world in the way people
did before I was born. To me, making a lot of arbitrary modifications
to a classic car is like colorizing a movie. The person that did it
may get a lot of satisfaction from his artisitic effort ("I decree
that in this scene Orson Welles shall wear a blue necktie!") but
to me as an onlooker it's kind of arrogant. Don't get me wrong -
I'm not one of these types who say you shouldn't be able to do to
*your* car what you want to, it's just not my personal taste.
When I hear about people adding modern shocks, transmissions,
electronics, etc., to old MGs I just don't get it.
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David Breneman | "Just because something doesn't
Distributed Systems S/W Analyst | do what you planned it to do
Airborne Express, Inc. | doesn't mean it's useless."
david.breneman@airborne.com | - Thomas Edison
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