“The King of Gears”

Is that stunning or what?

Lafers are unique beasts. Not so much an MG TD “replica” as a TD-inspired, and slightly classier, neo-classic. The spare tire cover, the glass side windows, the tail lights–all unique to the marque.There’s a Lafer owner in North Carolina on the Speedster forum (also owns a Speedster). His name is Aaron White. He’s emailable at…[Read more]

Worked for me just now. 

Tires. you have flat spots. becha $1

You’ll get used to it. The “closeness” in these cars is very different from what we’re used to, but a lot of it is function of the car’s dimensions. The windshield is almost upright, for instance. Your other car’s windshield is on at least a 35 degree slope. So the dashboard on your modern car is about two feet deep. Whereas the TD’s dash is about…[Read more]

Tach works. So does the oil pressure gauge (though I seem to have misplaced the light that goes in it). The fuel gauge is a no-go. The sender reads 63 ohms as it sits, with about 7/8 of a tank. Should be closer to 10, 15 ohms there, and like 80 ohms empty. When I hooked the gauge up it went to 3/4 full and then clicked and went to empty. I…[Read more]

More progress on the kick panels. One, in fact, is done. The door panels are going to be the hard part.Here’s the edge panel test fit.I drilled new holes through them and widened them on the panels for panel clips. Gonna go for the mod “hidden clip” look. Wish me luck. Here’s the done panel before the holes:Scored some “hidem” strip with my last…[Read more]

Nice shots Allen. The red ‘vert with the white wall tires is a sweet one. I liked the Benning auto Parts rod too. That your red TD? 

That looks like a nice car. If he did the engine right it’s a deal for someone out there.

Larry,
Thanks for posting that – all these years I have been coming on here and did
not know the photo gallery was up there – I only looked at the Aqua one to
the left.

@Ray:Yeah, almost unbelievable, huh?

Thanks, Dan. Yeah, not rushing is the hard part. I want this done! But I have the old door panels for now. They’ll be going in next week or so and we’ll, I hope, be on the road while I work on this stuff on rainy nights.

Good luck Bill. That’s a really nice, brand new car.

Be careful. And good luck. I think I’ll be doing this next year on Bridget. Total disassembly. I’m really not that psyched for it, but we shall see.

yes, actually.

I buy the seller. Let him or her drive the car first, watch ’em, listen. I think I can tell when someone is taking it easy on a car they usually drive like a maniac. This is hard to do on ebay.Don’t like dealers, either. They make way more than me & I can’t afford to pay them that. This includes the salesmen. Few years back went to a local dealer…[Read more]

Good luck, Mark. 

good idea. Please post photos and a how-to guide when done. 

some of the Speedster peeple are talking about running part of the route through PA.