[Spridgets] Hi and info request

[Karl Vacek]

Hi

I was on this list in the mid-2000's, but have been away from the list for
at least 10 years.

 

In 2006 my wife was fondly reminiscing about the 64 MIdget I'd bought for
her in 74 when we were first married.  eBay to the rescue - we bought her a
very clean, 14,000 mile 78 Midget. that had been won on Wheel of Fortune.
One owner till it was sold to the kid who flipped it to us.  Extremely rust
free - actually lots of still-shiny threads on things I've taken apart.  A
treat to work on, other than the fact that I didn't realize till we bought
it that Leyland had dropped the BMC engine and shoehorned a Spitfire engine
into it.  I wa always a TR guy - starting with a TR3 in1965.  But it just
doesn't fit in the car well.

 

After I'd renewed hydraulics, brakes, fuel system, etc. she was excited for
a while and drove it all summer, but after a few years she just didn't drive
it much it came out less and less till in 2016 (I think) we just put it
away.  Now, after maybe 6 years in storage, we brought it home, thinking
that with prices up we might recoup some of the giant pile of dollars I put
into the car.

 

So much of the suspension rubber that I put on in 2006-7 has now split and
deteriorated.  Back then there were choices in parts dealers (I haven't been
a Moss fan since Al Moss sold out - used to be a great place to get real TC
parts when that's all they sold).  Now they seem to be the only game in
town, and many of the bad new rubber came from them.  Further, they don't
even list some of it any more.  Rimmer has some stuff too, and the MGOC
lists lots of parts, but I don't know anything about them except the
assumption that they would have good quality.

 

Who can I trust?  Where can I get quality parts nowadays?

 

Thanks!
Karl

 

 

 

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