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RE: MGB prices

To: Obadiah Fayth <fayth@ibm.net>
Subject: RE: MGB prices
From: "Dodd, Kelvin" <doddk@mossmotors.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 09:15:33 -0800
Obie:

        Keep your eyes open and leave some notes with British specialists.
The cars are out there.  I found two in 6 months.  The first one, I was
calling around looking for the firewall bits to convert a 68 shell.  The guy
I talked to bought a 77 for $500.00, just for the motor and trans.  If I
towed away the rest he was happy.  That shell looked good until I got into
the left rear fender which was full of bondo.  But for free it would have
been worth fixing.  That shell, I sold stripped to another shop that was
doing a ground up on a rusted late model.  I sold that shell because I ran
across a pretty nice 79B with a thrown rod.  The shop kept all the smog
stuff and the head.  I got that rolling chassis for $800.00 which was a fair
price.  It is now sitting in the garage getting stripped for a chrome bumper
conversion and V8, yippee!

        I've driven MGBs' for 18 years in all kinds of tune.  Now I am
looking for a street car that will rumble placidly amongst the jap cr*p on
the highways of life.

Kelvin.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Obadiah Fayth [mailto:fayth@ibm.net]
> Sent: Sunday, February 21, 1999 8:15 PM
> To: JustBrits@aol.com
> Cc: mgs@autox.team.net; Jurgen Hartwig
> Subject: Re: MGB prices
> 
> 
> At 8:02 PM -0500 2/21/99, JustBrits@aol.com wrote (trimmed slightly):
> 
> >   You would be better off buying Lawrie's car, pull the 
> motor and rebuild
> >to *FLAT OUT RACE CONDITION* than wasting your time looking for a
> >suitable donor for a V-8 transplant sitution at anything 
> NEAR a reasonable
> >price.
> 
> I didn't mean to step on any toes by wanting to convert to a 
> v8 engine. But
> there is no way that the stock 4-cyl, modified to "*FLAT OUT RACE
> CONDITION*" is a substitute for the alloy rover v8 (for a 
> street vehicle at
> least). Easier, yes. Cheaper, maybe. But if I wanted a 
> dedicated race car I
> would be building a race car. What I do want is great handling, a wide
> powerband, low end torque and a car that is a sleeper for what will
> primarily be street driving. Perhaps I should have said that before. I
> spend maybe 5% of my driving time on the track either 
> autocrossing or time
> trialing, what I want is a car that is well suited 100% of 
> the time, is
> that too much to ask ;)
> 
> Yes, I know that in terms of time and money it is usually 
> better to buy a
> car that is already in nice shape, but I happen to LIKE 
> fixing cars. It is
> enjoyable to know that I have done something, or to be able 
> to say "I fixed
> that". I would rather put someone's basket case back together 
> and get it
> back on the road than to just buy a car that has already had 
> everything
> done to it.
> 
> >   Of course, you can spend the next mellina looking for a 
> car that will
> >accept the new torque and horsepower 'cause it has nothing 
> rusted in it.
> 
> FWIW, Lawrie also told me that from time to time they do run 
> into the kind
> of car that I am looking for. They may be few and far between, I don't
> know, but the price is right and they are rust free. And that 
> is what I
> want.
> 
> >   Tell me (and list) when you win your SCCA class at the 
> Natiionals in
> >Salinas, KS in a Stock or Street Prepared 'B' and EVERY one will back
> >your idea!!!!   ----Just MHO, of course!?!?!?-----
> >
> >Cheers.................
> >
> >           Ed
> 
> What about when I put the on super deep dish negative offset 
> wheels and
> take it to the drag strip??? Sorry, just kiding ;)
> 
> -Obie
> 
> 

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