possessor of a Fine Private Collection of MGBs), $6000
should buy you four or five MGBs. Well, two, anyway,
if they work and look nice and run well. Or one, if you
plan to spend half of it on the car and the rest to
make it perfect.
I have seen Limited Edition MGBs for sale between $4000
and $8000, though. Personally, they're low on my list
of nice Bs to have, unless you lower them an inch and
a half, take off the 50-lb bumpers and give then a nice
18G motor, and in that case you ought to just get a '71
or earlier in the first place.
>In the end, me dear wife Ann doesn't like the thought of two-seater sports
>cars. Not that she doesn't like them, but with two little boys she
>figures she would never get to ride in it with me...
Seen on a pair of bumper stickers in the paddock at Sears Point:
a) We interrupt this marriage to bring you the racing season
b) My wife said if I went racing once more, she'd leave me...
God, I'll miss her
Obviously, the solution is to spend your theoretical $6k on
two MGBs and have her drive Boy 1 and you drive Boy 2. I can
vouch for the effect that an open car has on Small Girls,
and I imagine that on Small Boys it's much the same. "Whee!
Say whee, Daddy!"
But I admit that Kim doesn't get to ride in the MG much
now that we've had Torrey. On the other hand, I was *so
miserable to live with* when I didn't have one that she
finally handed me the checkbook and pushed me out of the
house. So Garry, you're not trying hard enough!
--Scott
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