I'm curious as to what she was asking for her 'baby'. Strange that she was so
attached to it yet let it decline to the point
where it's now a project....
I agree re: the manual trans thing. Of course, so few cars come with them these
days, and now it seems a lot of manufacturers
are going the 'automated manual' route, which most people just leave in
automatic mode anyways.... Both of my boys know how
to drive a stick, and the car they share is a stick as well. My daughter will
learn when it's her turn. Wanting to drive my 6-speed
Audi versus the family van was a pretty powerful incentive! ;-)
Dan D
Central NJ USA
'76 MGB Tourer
'65 MGB Tourer (Project)
NAMGBR #5-2328
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From: don <don@napanet.net>
To: mgs@autox.team.net
Sent: Mon, March 29, 2010 1:11:15 AM
Subject: [Mgs] searching . . .
Last week I took a trek to look at a '69 B roadster. I have narrowed my search
to a steel-dash car, but this one was intriguiging enough to look at even with
the safety dash and other features that I'd rather avoid. In talking with the
owner on the phone, I was told that she had owned the car since the mid-'70s,
and it was more than a car; it was her baby. Now the car lives (sleeps) in the
corner of an old industrial building in an old industrial neighborhood. It
sounded like a possible "barn-find," but I knew that the chances of it being
that were quite slim.
Just finding the right door to the old warehouse building was an adventure.
Once inside, I found two young men that were working there and they directed me
to the owner's office upstairs. She explained that she could not leave her
desk as the business was short-handed, and that she would have the young guys
help me. They were quite cooperative, but neither of them knew how to drive a
standard transmission. One of them asked if it was a German car, but the other
fellow knew such cars once existed because he had seen Austin Powers movies.
They removed the canvas tarp on the car, and pushed it out to daylight where I
could look at it better. It was a complete car and I could see no rust on it,
but body panels were not aligned well. The interior was on the shabby side.
The car's condition was such that repairs and some TLC would not quite do the
trick; it would require restoration. It ran, but poorly. It was a rather sad
old car, but probably
better than many its age.
I decided to keep looking.
What was a shock to me was that the young guys working there not only could not
drive a standard transmission, but had no clue as to what MGs were! When I was
their age, I knew what a Hupmobile or an Auburn was. I knew about Model T
Fords. I think the younger generation are never going to be into British
sports cars, especially if they can't even shift gears!
Don Scott
Calistoga, CA
1962 MGA Mk II
1973 MGB GT (selling)
2001 Miata SE BRG
63-67 MGB (searching)
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