On Tue, 2 Dec 1997 22:02:00 -0500 (EST) MGMagnette@aol.com writes:
>
>Has been said...
> I haven't had a breakdown in the BGT since I bought it in 1991, and
>I've only put 94,500 miles on the thing since then.
>
> Maybe I'm not driving it enough? I only drive it 7 days a week.
>
>
>WOW! I have to say, 94,800 miles on an MGB without a break down is
>not only
>an incredible exception, I'd say a new world record too. Serious, can
>anyone
>top that?
>For the most part though, time has had it's toll on most of our cars.
>Most
>are to the point where mileage is nearly irrelevant and parts are
>beginning
>to break because of old age. Was this BGT fully restored, and at what
>price?
>
>
> John
John,
No, the bloody thing is STILL a rolling resoration.
I managed to buy it from a guy who, in the five years prior, had
managed to put about 500 miles on a rebuilt engine. It had been cranked
and run regularly, but not driven much. In fact, he had not even
registered it since he moved from GA to NC.
I bought it sight unseen through a buddy who I trusted, for the
princely sum of $1700.
Since then I've converted to OD, rebuilt the carbs (right after I got
it) and of course, the ususual maintenance items get taken care of as
soon as required.
A record? I doubt it. One of my friends in my local club has a 1977 B
which he bought new. It is his ONLY means of transport. In the slightly
more than 225,000 miles he has put on it the closest he has come to a
break down was forgeting to tighten a plug back when changeing it. He
called me to help him figure out the skip he had. After retightening the
plug, he was embarrassed to the tune of a full 6 pack.
I think the key in both cases is the fact that he and I both drive our
cars every day and when something seems amiss, we investigate and fix it.
Right then.
With out taking a survey or any such scientific blather, It seems, at
least in my club, that the more often an owner drives the car, the less
likely major problems crop up. I know one member who puts his TR in the
shed the first time a leaf falls, and doesn't pull it out again til the
dafodils rear their head. Then spends the next 3 months sorting out all
kinds of little bugs.
Rick Morrison
72 MGBGT
74 Midget
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