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> From: "Bob Pape" <rcpape@comcast.net>
> Subject: Need Advise Regarding My MGB-GT
> Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:25:00 +0000
>
> I got your name and e-mail off the British Motor Club of Utah web
> site and hope you can steer me in the right direction. Here's the
> issue:
>
> I'm the original owner of a 1969 MGB-GT ( with OD), that my wife and
> I bought in Oregon before we entered the Air Force. The car
> traveled with us all over the US and before I was stationed in
> Korea, it had a carburetor float problem that I couldn't fix before
> we left in 1986 ... so, I stored it in a garage in Dayton Ohio...
> and had it shipped to Layton, Utah two years later upon my return
> fro Korea. My military duty schedule was not conducive to my fixing
> it here and my work schedule after military retirement also occupied
> my full attention soooo --- the restoration project that I'd
> predicted for my final retirement years has occupied one of my two
> garage spaces here in Utah ---awaiting my motivation to begin ... it
> hasn't happened, although I told myself it should. I bought a
> Porsche Cayman ... and now need the garage space for it. So I'm
> looking for a potential MGB GT enthusiast --- that wants our car for
> restoration ...it needs a new bonnet, brake cylinder, clutch
> cylinder, probably a clutch although before the float issue ---it
> was still getting me around Dayton Ohio... there's some rust in the
> lower front rocker panel --- but that's all I'm aware of --- the car
> was in a fender bender early in our ownership -- fixed by the Rapid
> city MG Dealer so the left front quarter panel , grill and bumper
> are replacements ... the bonnet latch failed while I was traveling
> down the highway in Ohio and folded back over my windscreen at 60
> MPH.... after an exciting stop I used the wire rim tire hammer to do
> some road side bonnet --body work ... of course needs new leather
> seat kit and the dash is cracked --- and of course paint. Long
> story simple question.
>
> Do you have any members that might be interested, or are you aware
> of and restoration places in Utah that might want it as a parts
> source. The last thing I want to do is send it to a salvage yard?
> Please let me know one way or the other.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bob Pape
> 801 771-0075 (Home)
> 801 540-2526 (Cell)
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