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Subject: Re: MGB Info Request
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Date: Sun, 5-May-85 01:56:57 EDT
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Posted: Sun May  5 01:56:57 1985
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I know your request was for pre-1965 MGB info, but I am ignorant enough
not to know the differance between pre-1965 MGB's and 1966 MGB's. 
Therfore, I will pass on to you my small tale of woe.  I bought a new
1966 MGB in 1966 (naturally enough) for about $3400 or so.  It had wire
wheels and knock-off hub nuts.   I had to sell it in 1968 because I was
going back to school and couldn't afford two cars.  My point of sorrow is
that the man who bought it from me in 1968 for $1800 is still, today, in 
1985, driving it around.  And I'm sur I couldn't get it back, even for
more than $1800.  I'm not sure what his maintenance problems have been
over the years,  but I do know that the little crack in the door by the
outside rear view mirror that was about 3/4 inch long in 1968 did not
grow enough to cause the door to break in half as I had feared it might.

My only consolation is that I am still driving the 1961 109" Land Rover
pickup that I took back to school as my only vehicle in 1968.  That is
more of a tribute to American ingenuity than it is to British engineering
however.  It's saving grace is the all aluminum (really aluminium) body.

Oh well, I would still be willing to race the Land Rover against my old
MGB if I could pick the road.

Cheers,

Jim Potter jp@lanl.arpa