Does this mean that if I rip out my 1.8 and put in say a 1.3 from a Geo
Metro Sprint my MGB will be worth more money?
Mark Ascherl
1972 MGB Roadster
1981 TR8 DHC
----- Original Message -----
From: Kai M. Radicke <kradick1@ic3.ithaca.edu>
To: Scott Hower <howersl@yahoo.com>; Carl French <cfrench@cybertours.com>;
<mgs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 1:07 PM
Subject: Re: Fugliest MGB Award
> > Never mind the dash, what is the 'gauge' living where the tach ought to
> > be? Looks like it came from a
> > tractor!
> >
> > Guess he couldn't afford the other wiper...
> >
> > --Scott
>
> That gauge would be the Laughometer, however it only operates while the
car
> is in use. Simply, it measures the amount of laughter the automobile
> recieves as it cruises around.
>
> Seriously? I have no idea what it is. I doubt it is some sort of
> tachometer, as the car now has an automatic. It doesn't even have a dial
> that looks normal.
>
> Other notes: leaves in the engine bay. It looks like the car has been in
> storage quite some time, and apparently with the bonnet open so that
leaves
> could wander in. This would also explain why some items on the car a
> missing (like the petrol filler cap, and one of the wipers). The dash
> colour is correct, although that one suffers from longterm exposure to
> sunlight and as a result is faded (my '66 has the same colour dash now).
> BTW, where is the Smiths heater / blower unit? I also find the placement
of
> the bullet mirror odd. The alignment of the boot lid doesn't look
> satisfactory either. Absense of any visible rotating cooling aparatus in
> the engine bay, no crank driven fan or electrical fans behind the
> radiator... I will assume that they are in front of the radiator (as in
> later MGBs) but from the photos, I can't tell.
>
> What astounds me is that people are actually bidding on this car. 20 of
> them now, and the car is currently listed at $2500.00 USD.
>
> This has turned out to be one of the cars I have studied and ridiculed the
> most... which is sad considering what it is. (I don't even spend this
> amount of time at shows looking at a single car for faults or features)
>
> --
> Kai M. Radicke -- kradick1@ic3.ithaca.edu
> Not the only Triumph TR6 @ Ithaca College
>
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