Nice rack!;)But seriously…it is a super idea! Thinking outside the box.This site has SO many great minds!Thanks for sharing!

Nice ride!And I like the removable luggage rack!

Nice!

Nice looking ride Bill

I am trying again to post a pic of a luggage rack to show everyone pics of Herbie. I hope this comes through. Paul my apologies if I posted about a luggage rack here, instead of on that topic. I am just learning how to post pics from my ipadTks   Davehttps://flic.kr/p/BNXg4Gdavearoy2015-12-19 21:40:29

Ok here I go again to try and up load another picture from Flickr, to our web site. This luggage rack is a design I came up with. I did not want to drill any holes in Herbie’s body. My car is a Duchess so the engine opens backwards, and the luggage rack clears the bumper. Made from 1/2″ electrical conduit, and scrap lumber from Hm Depot. I will…[Read more]

If you do not have a VOM you can use your test light instead by just reversing the leads. Connect one to the + post on the battery and the probe the ground connections at the LED and the driving lights. Only problem I have with using test lights is that you are creating a parallel circuit and can sometimes be misled by the results

You noted that the LED on the switch was not powering on as it should when driving light switch turned on. Assuming power + to LED is common to driving lights it sounds like either switch is defective or power wire to switch has fault. You can use test light to verify if you are getting power to switch and also test that contact in switch is…[Read more]

The quickest and easiest is to hook up a temporary jumper from the + terminal of the battery and connect the other end of the jumper to the hot lead at or near the lights. If they light, it is a hot wire problem, possibly the switch. If no light with the jumper, then the problem is a bad ground.

Bolted to the badge bar, which is bolted to the frame. Like I said, they were fine before and if the badge bar is the ground, the driving lights have not been moved or touched at all. I guess I’ll just get all-new wire from each light to the power source and that pretty much HAS to be it, there must be a broken wire in there that I can’t…[Read more]

I’d try a test light on the wires. And, yeah: grounds. What are they bolted to?

BCW originally had no seat back adjustment–just an angle bracket with wood screws. I installed used original TD adjusters for the look, but the seat still sits all the way back all the time–unless I’m trying to make a little room to get into the transaxle.

My guess: bad (intermittent) ground.

Car still not on the road. what holds it is a screw into the inner tub wall. I stripped it trying to be sure I could get it tight enough to withstand the vibrations I’m expecting. I have seats and back and steering wheel in as comfortable a driving position as I think is possible given that my total experience is in the garage. . Good to know you…[Read more]

I assume your seatback adjuster is the same as mine, which is the kind from MG Magic that has multiple holes and you screw the knob into one hole on each side.  I use mine only to put the seatback as far back as I can recline it.  If you stripped out the knob, however, I don’t understand what holds the seat in place.  However, if all you st…[Read more]

took an inch and a half out of steering column extension, to get the steering wheel off my belly.  I have stripped the thread out of the knob for the seat back adjuster. As I rarely adjust the seat in my new car Don’t know if I want to go to the trouble of a fix. Does anybody use the seat back adjustment?

Could match the “fake spare” wheel with a new set of 15s that look like ’em. These Gas Burner knock-offs are close enough that no one would point and laugh, imho. The Pedrini would be even closer to perfect (if you can find a set). Paint ’em gold–or powder-coat–and done.
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Thanks, guys. It’s all pretty academic at this point, not to mention lower on my “love to” list than refinishing the dash and refurbishing the gauges. Just had to replace the gearbox, which ate a fairly large hole in my hobby budget. Still, I do like those wide whitewalls and think a set of 15-inchers would fill the wheel wells a bit better.

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jebarry wrote:

Tex 

Your car is great the way it is !! 

I agree, the black and gold is a very classy combination.I vote leaving it!