That sounds about right.
Look at some side shots of a real TD. I’m sure there are tons of them if you google.
 

I still check eBay for small stuff like parts, etc. But as far as complete vehicles I’m done.
My ’40 Ford was on eBay and didn’t sell. I contacted the seller and made an offer after the auction ended based on the description and some more questions. The car was a POS when I got it and almost NOTHING in the description was true. His reply, “I…[Read more]

My house went on the market (official listing) yesterday afternoon and 2 different people are coming to look at it already. One couple tomorrow (Friday) afternoon and the other couple Saturday afternoon.
Keep your fingers crossed for me please 
 
 
 Pink MG40626.5748148148

Only $3,000

Congratulations on your pending retirement  Hope you “wow” the students and teachers on your last day too

I even invested in that tool to lower/raise the spring plate so that it doesn’t guillitine your arm off.
It’s a PITA job, but not that hard. Each torsion bar (left and right) have a different amount of splines, one side of the bar has finer splines than the other.
I removed mine from the Pink MG and re-indexed them after having .100″ turned off of…[Read more]

IMHO eBay sucks for buying vehicles. There used to be good stuff up there sold by honest people.
However, I believe that since early in the 2000’s, it started to become a dumping ground for misrepresented vehicles…”to the best of my knowledge”, “as far as I know” and “I’m listing it for a friend” are the terms used to say “I just lied my ass o…[Read more]

Did anyone notice we had a “real” Elvis in the club
Elvis lives!

Ray10 has the right advice…Rick Drake is THE Universe’s Chevette EXPERT!

Paul should share his story about the Jovi (Chrylser Lebaron conversion) he sold.
There are a thousand stories in the Naked Kit Car Realm!

Larry…NC didn’t lose out yet…it’s still a possibility.
Yup guys, the circumstances suck, but it is what it is. Six Saturdays and a Sunday…I like that.
As for being busier than now…At least when I retire, I’ll be busy doing stuff I want to do…I hope 
I told Wiggle’s my 2 year old Cocker Spaniel that when I retire we’ll get to be old men…[Read more]

WOW! That was fast!

TDY! A government employee?
My buddy’s wife used to refer to it as “Cheaty-Y”

Well, this topic sure “sounds” like Spring Pink MG40616.5933449074

Great News! You got out in the open air. Thanks for sharing your joy.
Now that Daylight Savings Time is upon us, it won’t be long before we see a 70 degree day here in NJ. It was almost 60 on Saturday. There are still a few stubborn piles of snow left in parking lots though. Hard to believe it was from the 26-27 December 2010 blizzard.
The…[Read more]

Don’t know where you are located, but my original “Pink MG” which became Bill Collins “Angelica” was sold a couple years ago to guy just off the Washington D.C. beltway in Virginia.
A week or so ago, Larry Murphy spotted it on eBay. Maybe if you PM’d Bill, he has the guy’s name and phone number?
I built the car, Bill added/changed some equipment…[Read more]

Ed, the VW and Chevette shifter bushings are both nylon, but that’s where the similarity stops.
The VW bushing acts like a true bushing with the tubular shifter shaft riding through it.
The Chevette “bushing” is actually a “U” shaped foot that fits onto a machined area of the shift shaft and the shifter handle “fork” slips over it.
Both of these…[Read more]

Welcome to the forum. All the kits have a potential to be a lot quicker than an original MG-TD. As you already know, straight line acceleration is determined mainly by the horsepower to weight ratio.
That being said, several options for a project TD kit arise:
1) VW based: The lightest of the kits and probably the most vibrant aftermarket of the 3…[Read more]

Great news…compression, fuel and spark is all you needed!
As far as that $150 “034” vacuum advance distributor, the module is Chinese, not a Pertronix. I bought one…it lasted about 500 miles. I bought another from aircoooled.net (John Connelly) that has a modified Pertronix Ignitor I installed. It was $100 more than the Chinese POS. This is in…[Read more]

Welcome Karen…and I thought NC was always FIRST!