So I got interest in another thread, and have wanted to kind of do something like this for awhile, so I'm going to be updating this thread with any progress/updates that occur.
The car is a 1964 MGB that my fathers grandfather bought used back in the 1970's, and then sold to my dad in 1980. He daily drove it in Los Angeles for years, but then when he moved up to the PNW it went to a mechanic that did minor work for nearly five years, (during this time the car was stored outside, which is where the majority of the rust comes from,) and then went to a hangar for at least 10 or 15 years.
I've bugged my dad about it enough in the last few years, as I've gotten older and more into cars and willing to put in time on something like this, that we've pulled it out, and started making actual progress on it. It was completely driveable, which meant that last year, inevitably, my 17 year old self took it just a wee bit too fast over a nasty speed bump, and came down hard on the exhaust. Of course, its a fun little British two seat roadster, a nice little exhaust leak, that wont stop me from driving it :) but then we decided to fix it, which is where the fun begins...
I'll go ahead and post this as sort of the background, and I'll start writing about the current shtuff going on and upload pictures in just a minute.
The car is a 1964 MGB that my fathers grandfather bought used back in the 1970's, and then sold to my dad in 1980. He daily drove it in Los Angeles for years, but then when he moved up to the PNW it went to a mechanic that did minor work for nearly five years, (during this time the car was stored outside, which is where the majority of the rust comes from,) and then went to a hangar for at least 10 or 15 years.
I've bugged my dad about it enough in the last few years, as I've gotten older and more into cars and willing to put in time on something like this, that we've pulled it out, and started making actual progress on it. It was completely driveable, which meant that last year, inevitably, my 17 year old self took it just a wee bit too fast over a nasty speed bump, and came down hard on the exhaust. Of course, its a fun little British two seat roadster, a nice little exhaust leak, that wont stop me from driving it :) but then we decided to fix it, which is where the fun begins...
I'll go ahead and post this as sort of the background, and I'll start writing about the current shtuff going on and upload pictures in just a minute.
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Koala Bear: May 17, 17 20:49