Jon …Better clean your glasses.. Right on the Front page are “Roxie”,”, “Casper” ,”Lil Green Mouse” and Last but not least MY “Angelica”

Be nice Bill….use this larger font!!! My site ID, “Pink MG” is my car’s name.

Jon, I think it would be neat for us to post the explanation for each car’s name. 

By the way Bill, the upholsterer in Lakewood ran our of leather last week (never called me either!) and only got the seat back and the pleated seat surface of the 2 seat bottoms completed! Sounds fishy to me. I gave him a 55 sq. ft. hide. He told me he only needed 35 sq. ft. to do the 3 pieces of the seats and the door panels. I bought another hide (46 sq. ft.) from Keleen Leathers yesterday. He’s had these seats since 7 September! I’d better make these seats removable so I can bring them into the house as furniture!

Car names; I worked on my badly deteriorated (previously abandoned and left for dead) Fiberfab for well over a year before it was worthy of any name at all besides “that damned piece of —- out back” but eventually my wife said “you have to give that poor guy a name”. She has always named her cars, including a few VW’s to which she is quite partial. Back when I was a hippie, I had this dog named Merlin, who lived 16 years and went through most of the major transitions of my life with me and is buried in my backyard. Merlin is also a figure from the lore of the  British Isles and the name of a powerfull British motor, so it seemed the natural choice. Back in the sixties, when I worked on my first (and only other) auto restoration, a 1950 Chevy pickup, Merlin was with me for every knuckle bruising agonizing moment.  I had neither tools, knowledge nor money, just a lot of time on my hands, determination and my dog to keep me company. I find myself thinking about him a lot when I work on this car, because the smells  (did that truck mostly on the gravel in front of a friends shop who did fiberglass.) and the work remind me of that time. Now I have plenty of money for parts, a comfortable dry place to work, and a ton of tools, but I don’t have the dog. When Merlin is complete, I’ll remember my dog every time I drive his namesake.

Michael

Well I just acquired this unbuilt, red CMC Fiberfab kit. MG is a British car and in the James Bond movies, Moneypenny is James’ redheaded love, I guess “Moneypenny” will be her name. newkitman40421.4148726852

All of my hobby cars and trucks in the past have had well thought out names.  Soooo.. I’m sorry to say that over the past 2 years I’ve taken the apparent easy route and have always refered to her as simply “The Duchess”

Now that I see it print, I like it!  “The Duchess” it is.

 ‘Dixie cup” is the name because she is our ice-cream getter ride to ,Baskin- Robbins on these warm southern evenings  Dan R

Ice cream. yeah! Or, in our case, Gelotti from Ritas

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(Caution: stunt driving)

Ed. Note: I fixed the link Ed.

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Cool story Montie – here’s to another 40