We had a full house today with lots of activity and much progress.
Casey finished the complete lubrication on a 1977 MGB and returned to this extremely early MGA.
Curt worked throughout the day on a 1974 TR6 front suspension.
Trevor and Ken worked on the MGB
I did a variety of little projects including preparing a number of dash components for Moss to use as examples for the duplication of some Lucas items, as Delphi, now caught up in some high finance trouble, has seemed to eschew the British car owners even though they own Lucas.
I also fitted some rings onto pistons of Mark O's MGA.
Around noon a fellow came into the shop and told me he'd brought his doors for re-skinning. Gosh, I replied, it's not possible to skin them off the car (well it is, but getting the alignment right is nigh impossible). I suggested he bring his whole car in. Little did I know that he'd already spoken with Caroline and Lisa about the project. "Where're you from?" I asked. "San Diego!" was his answer. I could see that any further discussion about bringing his whole car to the shop would be for naught. In the end I told him that Mark would hang them on another car and that would allow him to get the lines very, very close. The doors and repair panels were in three larger boxes. I asked him if he'd driven here. He said that he'd flown and checked the parts as luggage. And I was going to put him off! He was originally from GR -- we'd sold him parts 25 years ago!
Tech time didn't bring too many calls -- just one from a fellow enquiring about the components in his 1979 MGB brake master cylinder.
If you've made it this far, you'll want to know about the poster. I quit college in the summer of 1968 and joined the army. Within the year I was stationed at Army HQ in Long Binh, then I moved to the HQ of the 25th Infantry Division. I continued to correspond with the editor of the college yearbook. He told me that if I sent a picture from Vietnam, he'd print it. I did, he did, and this is the picture. I've wanted to run this in an ad with a line "He defended your country, now he'll repair your MG" but I've never got the wording correct.
