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Are the grill badges still available? I now have a car….just no badges. This should be an easy fix/update for my car.
Pat
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Thank you to all of you for the warm welcome. I have been watching craigslist and ebay for several months looking to purchase a TD replica. It will be the second one that I have owned. Prior to finding this web site I have looked at a number of TD replicas. I walked away from all of them for various reasons.
Larry, thanks for the tip on the TD that is in Reidsville. However, his asking price of $10,500 (yes he went up from somewhere under $10,000) was just too steep. While the car made a great first impression, I found it extremely difficult to justify his price (or anywhere near his price) versus the condition of the car. There didn?t appear to be any major issues with the car. But it does have a number of things that need attention, mainly due to being a low mileage car. As we all know, things can and will go wrong as a car sits for extended periods of time. With only 2700 miles since built (1992), it has done a lot of sitting. In the past I have owned several kit cars. I have seen things happen first-hand to cars when they spend more time in the garage and not on the road.
Knowing the issues of the car in Reidsville were minor I continued to think about the car. Fortunately, I called back and began ?days? of negotiating. I was finally able to drive the car home and call it mine. OOPS, should I have said that first and not save that info for the end of my post? (…smile…)
An interesting side note about the car. The car is titled in North Carolina as a 1992 MG. The car is only seeing limited usage (around the neighborhood) until I get new tires put on. The DOT date code indicates the tires were manufactured in 1992. Yes, the same year it first hit the road. The tread looks new and there is absolutely NO cracking of the sidewalls. But my knowledge and experience with aged tires tells me to replace them ASAP.
Again, thanks for the warm welcome.
And Larry, thanks for the tip.
Pat
