Brings back some fond memories of a time when I could build just about any car I wanted....and I wanted that one! The second one I had came about from a feller coming to the shop and seeing the one I was doing. He says "Hey...I got one of them cars. One of us needs to own BOTH of them." I though he was hinting at buying mine, but then he says "I don't need two of them. If ya want it, come git it". Sweet!
So....I take about 6 of my buds out in the country to this feller's place, and he takes us even farther out into a pasture where he has a fenced in area.....with aboot 30 cars in it. GUESS where the MG was.....go ahead...GUESS. Thass rite...ALL THE WAY IN THE BACK CORNER......
We spent all day out there digging that turd out, after moving 10-12 other cars out of the way. Neat thing was, this car still had the original engine/trans/driveline, and the original wire rims. The interior was trashed, of course, but the car was pretty much complete. So now, I had
two of these things. I stole some parts off of the 2nd car for the race car, but other than that, I had no real use for it.
I started building a '56 hardtop Belair for a drag car, so I took the engine out of the MG, and put in the '56. My Ford buddy decided he just had to have the MG so he could turn it into a Cobra look-alike, so I traded the MG to him, and he bought me a full manual shift Powerglide trans for the '56. The '56 then took a back seat to a V-8 Vega. I took the engine/trans/diff out of the '56 and put it all in a friend's '72 V8 Vega, with the express intent of outrunning a new guy in town that had a '68 Camaro that bragged he could outrun ANY car any of us could put against him. The owner of the Vega did NOT want to sell me the car, but he wanted to shut the Camaro guy up too, and his engine was blown up at the time....mine was still fresh, and was a full race engine, where he had been running a mildly beefed stock engine. So we partnered up on it. Once I finished the Vega, the Camaro guy dint have much to say.....
I wound up flipping the Vega...barrel-rolled it about 15 times....in a cotton field.... Dam near killed me
....and the two other people with me. But....thass a story for another time....
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