2-24-2011 Back to work...at least a bit

It is winter and I am notorious for not doing shit when it is cold. Maybe it is the SAD which hits me in the winter or maybe I just don't like freezing my ass off... either way, I do very little in the winter months.
Well it got warm here for a bit and that got me out and working. I cleaned up the garage and got the Spit down off the jack sands and back on her own wheels. I then moved her sideways into the back of the garage so my Wifey can finally get her Mini Cooper into the garage.
The Spit is small enough to fit in with the Mini and the MG roadster in there and still allow me to work on them.
THE BIG NEWS:
I picked up a 1967 MGB GT. I paid way to much for it and it has more rust than the Titanic but it looks good and it is drivable...if you don;t mind the Flintstone floorboards, leaking rear axle seals, intermittent brakes, bad starter and utterly inadequate charging system.
So I'm doing a rolling resto on that now...uggggggghhhh!












Back to the Spitfire.
I pulled the carb off and sent it off to get rebuilt. A local guy who is a NASCAR mechanic is doing the work...maybe the Spit will go fast when he's done...nah. I also have just about all the parts I need to finish the restoration so I may actually have the thing running in a week or two.

I started de-rusting the lower front apron area beneath the bumper. I'll also have to fab up some brackets to get the front bolt holes on the bumper to line up with the bumper brackets on the frame.
The Wifey says it will never run. I can't blame her, the damned car was supposed to be done last summer.
It WILL be on the road and finished by spring. The GT will also be finished in the next few weeks so I'll go from zero LBC's on the road at the begininning of the year to two finished ones. Then it's just the 74 MG roadster and 95 Corvette and all my cars will be done.

I think I may do an all-electric Spitfire or MG next...
:)