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Location: Texas | Authur - I forgot to say - her name is the Queen Mum - on the highway, her name is the death mobile :eek: No air bags or seat belts...whewwwww |
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Location: CA | Now THAT is stunning. Next you're going to tell us it is an MG which actually RUNS! Be still my beating heart. |
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Location: Texas | She is in Florida right now in intensive care with an MG specialist - had the engine and transmission rebuilt and a hundred other things - she will be home this coming Sunday or Monday. She drives like a dream now....before that, it was a crap shoot if you got home alive.
I must say that she has travel more than I have - she came from Michigan (owned by a con artist who said she was in perfect condition)shipped to me in Texas - after one month of terror on the highway with her - she was shipped to Flordia for a major restoration and now she is being shipped back to Texas where I can finally enjoy her. I have wished that a wart the size of Montana is growing in an unnatural place on the man in Michigan!!!! |
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Location: Paris/France | Congrats Vision.
Nice guitars and wonderful car!!!
J :) |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Originally posted by vision:
Authur - I forgot to say - her name is the Queen Mum - on the highway, her name is the death mobile :eek: No air bags or seat belts...whewwwww You drive so much more attentively with your butt four inches off the asphalt and none of that wimpy safety crap! :p
Very nice! |
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| Wire wheels - the automotive equivalent of a slothead. Excellent.
I was born and raised 3 miles from WHERE the engine was built. Depressingly I was alive and kicking WHEN it was built......
I've got a friend who put about 10 years and a small fortune into an MGA. As I kept pointing out to him they were crap cars when they were built - he kept pointing out that there was a great car struggling to get out from inside the crap one.
My neighbour (who's ass I covet) had one of the latest MGs. It spent 90% of its life in the shop having the transmission, oil leaks and roof leaks fixed. Then they went bust.
The Chinese bought MG 2 years ago......
I hope your Florida guy fixed it good. Enjoy. |
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Location: Texas | Awwwww - classic cars :eek: :eek: They can be your greatest joy or your worst nightmare. If they are treated right and are worked on by a professional who actually knows what they are doing, they can turn out to be very reliable cars. Just riding in a car that is 52 years old is a treat and the looks you get are priceless.
If I was inclined, I could fly to Florida and drive her back to Texas - that is how good she is now. Of course, I have no intentions of driving in the heat of summer - the car would be fine but I would be found dead on the side of the road from the lack of air conditioning. :)
I don't know much about the MG's of today ( only recently found out that they were still being made) but if you can find that special MG of the past, it will put a smile across your face - and to get that smile, it will take a lot of money.
It might have helped if the man I bought it from had told me that it had been sitting in the "GReat Room" of his house for 13 years as a piece of art deco - now please - any car that sits that long - there are going to be 1,000 problems.
I am happy to report, even though my pocket book it now empty, that a piece of history has been saved. :) |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | We would sure like to see a complete set of pics of your collection. Please post in the gallery! |
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Location: Texas | ProfessorBB - I will put up pictures of all my guitars this weekend and then figure out how to post the gallery to this thread - I am new at this :) |
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Location: France | Congratulations Vision!!!
Tom |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | Hey Vision, Thanks for the pics of the Tele. You did a real nice job on it. |
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