All credit to Roy on the hard top, I say!Nice job, Roy.

I bought my first MGT in 1968 while living in Rhode Island.  So, I figgered that I would assemble my normal top, lay Saran Wrap or something similar over it and then lay fiberglass cloth over that.  I figured that the fiberglass would not adhere to the Saran Wrap, but so what if it did?  Then I would carefully remove the fiberglass top-shaped en…[Read more]

Jeff, I once had a tow dolly that was too wide to tow a TD.  That is to say that the wheels fell inside of the dolly’s recesses because the TD track was too narrow.  

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I never knew a tool like that existed. Gonna have to get me one of them darn things.

Dennis, you seem to have found the Achilles’ Heel of TD replicas.  Getting yourself inside and closed up to the weather is so cumbersome, it is quite laughable.  You can take some comfort in knowing that if you succeed to get the curtains on, they are much more “weatherproof” than original TD side curtains are.  

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I use synthetic or semi-synthetic in the daily drivers to stretch the time between changes and because it may lubricate better in the mean time. 

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Paul, in a very few months, I turn 72.  Believe me, I know about stiff!  

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Kent, you ask a good question as usual.  Normally, I would see no need for helper/coil overs on a lightened vehicle.  But, my port side was down a lot and the only reason(s) I could come up with are that the builder mis-adjusted the rear torsion bars before he put the tub on or that the previous owner weighed 562 pounds and I was looking at some r…[Read more]

I had enough room to put coil over springs around the existing shocks.  Works well and looks good. Not some cobbled up job.  

I stand corrected.

In MD it’s antique after 25 years. So my 1982 build date rated the “Historic” tag–never mind the ’69 chassis, ’66 engine or ’52 styling.

A classic, indeed.:-)

That’s pretty much the look I was going for, but those carts don’t come big enough.

Thanks Ed, that’s what I’ll do.  

Bill, I thought that my grandson’s go kart went too fast and suggested he needed a cage.  This is what he came up with:  (Hope you can use some of the ideas.)

No “rear body panels” for the hill climb? Time to post pics of that, Bill! You talking about the fiberglas pseudo-“gas tank?”

Me guessing here but I’d think less bolt is better. I believe I read on that Ghia racer’s thread that the snubbers get cut about in half on their application, which woud suggest there is less than full metal inside the snubber.

I hope someone can help here.  I have included a couple of pics of the bump stops which are supposed to “fit” atop a post.  The hole in the bump stop is a 5/8″ and extends 2-3/8″ into the inside.  

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Allen,

Allen, 

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