November 25 2012

Well much has happened since my last posting.
My wife decided that we really didn't need to be married anymore...no comment.
So the practical reality is that I had to move while only working about 2 days a week.
What a coincidence that the marriage crashed after my loss of full-time employment.
Also, no comment.
To the point.  I started selling stuff.

I got rid of the 95 Corvette :(

And now I'm thinking of selling the Spitfire as well.

The problem is that it is not running.

It's very close to running.  All that needs to be done is the carb reinstalled and she should fire up.

She ran fine before but the carb was rough so she should be a runner when put back together.

The bigger problem is that winter is rolling in and I have no place to work on the car (along with the MGB GT and the MG roadster.

The biggest problem is that I have about $3500.00 in the car, just about all of the parts needed to make her like new but I just don't have the time or space to finish her.

I have the chrome bumper conversion nearly done, the complete interior ready to go in, just about all of the rust repairs are done.  I even have the paint to make her a pretty dark pearl blue.

So If I try to sell her now I won't get anywhere near what I have in her.  I know you never do when you restore a British car but I don't want to get bent over by selling her.

Drats!

What I've been doing on my British cars lately

I haven't done much with the Spit lately.

I've been working on my other British cars, the 1974 MGB roadster and the 1967 MGB GT

I've done a lot on the roadster lately..
Unfortunately, a lot means scavenging parts to get my 67 GT back on the road.

I spun a bearing in the GT engine just driving down the road so I decided to scavenge the roadster engine and gearbox to get it running again.

I hate doing it but my wife and I are separating and I have 3 British cars and a Corvette that need to be finihsed and the GT is closest to completion so it wins.

You can follow my work on the GT blog. It is updated more frequently (as you can tell) than this one is.

After the GT is on the road again the Corvette goes into the shop (I'm not doing the work) and then hopefully I can get the Spitfire running by my drop dead moving out date of August 1st...I'm hoping at least :)

Thanks for stopping by, see you at the link below :)

http://mgbgtproject.blogspot.com/

The 67 GT with the roadster engine installed