Restore the MG (assuming it's a chrome bumper car) and sell the Spitfire.
Spitfires are not very good cars and will probably never be worth much.
You'd be better off driving a CRX or MR2 and sinking some money in the B.
Don Scott
At 06:43 PM 6/20/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Understanding the lists understandable bias towards MGs, I have a
>question. I know that several of the listers have or have had a MG.
>Next month I will be returning from Indiana with my high school and
>college sweetheart (a 1974 1/2 MGB). Presently, my daily driver is
>a 1980 Spitfire. The MG will take some work to get it running, but
>is otherwise in good condition. It has been garaged for about eight
>years.
> I would like to do a frame up restore of one of these cars and
>use the other as my daily driver. My question: Should I restore the MG or
>the Spitfire? What are the pros and cons of either? Expense? Ease
>of restoration? Other considerations?
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
>
> Rob Schuck
> Evans, GA
>
>
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