Tut tut Eric! You BOTH got enjoyment out of your cars. Some people like
chocolate and some people like vanilla. If you really want picky - I
catalogued each bolt that I took out of my Austin Healey and put it back in
the same hole (after cad plating). Interesting enough there was one brand
of bolts on one side and another brand on the other side - presumably the
bolt bins on either side of the production path had been filled with the
same size bolts but different brands!
At 10:15 AM 5/13/2003 -0400, Eric J Russell wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Dan DiBiase" <d_dibiase@yahoo.com>
>
>
> > 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!
>
> > --- Eric J Russell <ejrussell@mebtel.net> wrote:
> > > And this is one of MY pet peeves... Folks who get a bit too 'anal'
> > > about a so-called "Concours Restoration".
>
>Well, of course we can! Sorry for the 'rant' but too often I've seen
>people obsess about restoring their car to 'Original'. I have seen it
>get to the point of ridiculous.
>
>A friend was terribly upset because the weld nuts on the frame rails
>of an MGA he was restoring were the 'wrong shape' (round vs. octagonal
>or visa-versa). Guess what - he has never finished the restoration
>while my MGA has over 300,000 miles on the odo (I bought it in 1971.)
>
>Who is getting more enjoyment from their MG?
>
>Eric
>1960 MGA
>1978 MGB
Regards
Barrie
Barrie Robinson
barrier@bconnex.net
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