I apologize for bombing the list but, I hate "trailer queens." If you don't
want to drive it, make it a coffee table. I went to an antique car show and
tour (I was a participant) near Nuremberg last weekend and we all drove our
vehicles (60 motorcycles and 90 cars) for over 120 km. Everyone was very
nice and didn't worry what year the lights came from. Hell, I had never
seen some of those vehicles before, but they were neat. There was one other
MGB there, but he wasn't "right" as the chrome was wrong. Did I care, no.
Good time.
"Jay"
John S. van Syckel
1971 MGB (BRG, no PO)
-----Original Message-----
From: PHILIPPE TUSLER [SMTP:TUSLER@mp050.mv.unisys.com]
Sent: Dienstag, 23. Juni 1998 21:25
To: MGS%AUTOX.TEAM.NET@mvdns1.mv.Unisys.COM
Subject: Re: Subject: Heritage certificates
>It's amazing, to go to shows and car club meetings and hear people
make a
big deal of little things. "Well, this car *can't* be original.
Those
lights are from a '59 and this car is a '60" blah blah blah. Look,
I hate
to break it to you, but those lights were put on that car by an out
of work
plumber. He didn't car if they were "correct", there were the next
lights
in the parts bin. In "Making MGs" there is a comment that during
any given
day of production, no two MGAs were the same. Gee, that's hard to
believe,
because when you go to shows there are rows upon rows of perfect
red MGAs
<with wire wheels with black interiors with red piping. It gets
boring.
HOW can you insinuate such heresy?! ;-)
When I had Tintin's head rebuilt in 1980, the shop called back
with:
"Well, the good news is that this is only the third or fourth MG
head
I've ever seen that wasn't cracked. The sort of bad news is that
there
were seven MG valves in it, and one that I don't know what it was.
We
replaced it with an MG valve."
So the assembler runs out and grabs a part from the nearest bin?
You bet!!
And no DPO here. I wish I had kept the valve.
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