My wife and I just returned from three weeks in Thailand. I suffered
withdrawal symptoms the entire time; eyes always scanning the road ahead for
an LBC, sneaking peaks at my parts catalogues which I secreted into my
luggage, etc. One day we pull into an artist's refuge (very cool but
another story) and in the driveway is sitting an ancient Standard motorcar.
I of course gave it a thorough going over. The body was remarkably rust
free but the passange seat was missing to make room for his belongings and
the top frame was a strange mixture of original metal and more recent
bamboo. It turns out that the artist, a Thai native named Pipop, had just
recently driven it to Hua Hin (about 3 hour south of Bangkok) from Malaysia.
That is something like an 18 hour trip in a car that he said is all but
impossible for him to get parts for! Swear to God, they can fix anything in
Thailand with bamboo, reeds, and scrap metal.
Anyway, he told me that Standard was a precurser to British Leyland and
therefore qualified as an LBC. I hate to admit my ignorance... Is he
right?
Lonn Howard
'70 TR6 -mine
'71 TR6 -in my garage, therefore it's mine (dad might disagree)
'70 MGB GT -mine, mine... all mine
'89 Saab Turbo Convertible -hers
"We are but temporary custodians with an obligation of preservation."
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