To make the transition from project to daily driver while getting to work
will be difficult. You are going to need a testing phase to get the Midget
reliable and daily driver able. If I were in your shoes I would get a back
up vehicle. Sell the Nissan, pocket $3500 buy a back up vehicle and use the
remaining to get the Midget road worthy and work dependable and if you wish,
continue with a rolling restoration. Any Sub $1000 car will do, cheap import
is fine and wont give you a head ache if you don't keep it for too long.
Allot of these have hit bottom price wise. You wouldn't be want to be seen
dead in one, so you have to park far off and walk to work :P. Our family
back up vehicle is a POS 87 Ford Festiva. Blue book value of $550 but it
wont die. I have tried to kill it numerous times... it just wont die. I even
took it off roading and all the damage I could do to it was bend a wheel and
break the bead on the tire. It gets 35 mpg, will peg the speedo at 85 mph (I
think its capable of 90-95) and has AC. It's my back up, back up car, when
my Cruiser used to get fussy or when I am doing major work to it (disk brake
conversion lasted a month).
If work isn't much of a commute maybe a sub $500 motorcycle? If you know how
to ride of course.
My new job is only .5 mile away, so I can just take my bicycle to work.
Good luck.
Toby
-----Original Message-----
From owner-spridgets at autox.team.net
[mailto:owner-spridgets@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Ryan Irwin
Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2001 11:09 PM
To: Spridget List
Subject: project to daily driver
I have to sell a car. Do i sell the precious Midget and pocket $1000 max or
do i sell the Nissan and pocket $3500? The Nissan. But that means i have
to
take the MG from being a work in progress to drivable.
To do so I need the following things: (maybe more to make it comfortably
drivable)
These are for a '61 948cc:
Valve cover gasket
Exhaust manifold gasket
Flasher unit
Accelerator pedal (I have one in the bucket-o-parts, but i think it's from a
Fiat)
Radiator bottom hose (i broke mine getting to the exhaust manifold, don't
ask)
Manual brake switch? i have the hydraulic one, but i need a quick fix
Hopefully a tachometer that works or a speedo that's not in km/h
Last but not least... a smooth case tranny.
The tranny i have now works, but sounds like a garbage disposal 1st-3rd
gear.
I can probably drive it without a tach, i just like to have some idea of
where
my rpms are. This should get me running and legal in the state of Indiana.
Comfort comes in Stage 2. By Stage 3, I won't be embarrased to drive it.
More on that later. But for now, if you have any of these parts you're
willing to part with, email me off list at sixtyonemg@hotmail.com
-Ryan Irwin
'61 MG Midget
'90 Nissan 240SX
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