I've been thinking an MGB would be a good companion for Kermit. On my way
out of Hildene, I spotted a friend who has one each 70 and 74 MGB
roadsters for sale. He was showing the 74, and I sat in it. I felt a bit
confined; it especially seemed that the top was low and the windshield
narrow and far away. I don't feel that way in Kermit, and I don't recall
my 67 Alpine feeling that way; I worry I would not be happy in the B
cockpit. I gather that earlier ones had less padding and were more
spartan. Do earlier ones seem roomier than the 74?
I suppose the new old house will be my next obsession for a while, anyway,
and the next car choice will be less calculated. I was hoping to buy a
car that was ready to go, maybe with a bit of tweaking here and there.
But something will probably come along, as Kermit did, and say, "Ahem,
sir, I think we were meant for each other. I am really about to die of
rust and neglect, and only you are fool enough to care."
Ray Gibbons Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
Univ. of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu (802) 656-8910
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