Ballparking it with the car up on stands, the bottom of the oil pan appears to be level with the front cross member. The cross member ran with 4-1/2″ of clearance.

I don’t understand what the dealer’s purpose is in this scenario. He charges $1,000 to make your bid? Why not just go to the auction and buy the car yourself?

Aluminum underpan is almost done. The driver’s footwell is removable to facilitate access to the pedal set & under the dash.

Hey Bill,

I found the post (Oct 3, 2015) but the links to the various pictures don’t work…???

I assume that you remove the bumper at the chassis and bolt on your tow bar adapter???

…but then again, if I don’t get busy I’ll still be working on bolting fiberglass panels on come May…..

Jack, there is a thread in here of the building of my tow bar setup. Complete with pictures.

Great information — Now I know why fate “forced” me into buying a front engine, Ford-based TDr — so I can build a teardrop trailer and tow it to the beach with my TDr — I’m sure it would be a real head turner, as you all have said —

Ed, you mentioned that these little trailers do not have trailer brakes — why not add them to the trailer and…[Read more]

Hey Bill,

That engine compartment is going to look so awesome that you may want to put plexiglass windows in the hood and floodlights in the engine bay so everyone can admire it…….that would keep you from wearing out the hood hinges opening and closing the hood to show off the “guts and Glory” of the TDr…!!!

Looking forward to seeing…[Read more]

Yup: it’s all so quick and easy.

This is fun, right?

Here’s me spending 50+ hours making a pedal set. Now all I’ve got to do is cut the whole thing out and weld it back in two inches to the left.

A little more progress. Three steps forward, two steps back.

I began installing the pulley kit and alternator bracket kits I bought months ago. I found out that they were incompatible.

I’ll never keep a belt on these pulleys.

Back on the internet. I found an outfit that supplies a complete package for alternator only with a v-belt.

Even…[Read more]

Pretty cool look I say! And good to see you on the board again.

@bebop Let Paul or I know what information you have on the manufacturer, dates, base car, etc. and we can include it on the MG TD Replicas page. If you have an assembly and/or owners manual to share, all the better! We can include it in the Library

Well, after applying the updates that I thought would have no effect, blamo! several of the pages disappeared. So I did the one thing you should never do in that situation. I applied more updates.

In the end, we are now running the latest WordPress (from above) and the blank pages are fixed. So scratch item 1 above, only the SPAM filter left to…[Read more]