| I have always had a love for rebuilding older cars, specifically MGB's, so when I came across an advertisement for a 1966 MGB I was eager to get a look at it. Unfortunately the car turned out to be in terrible shape, rotting from the inside out and missing two of its gears. There were two things that sold me on the car though, and the first was the price; I ended up buying the car for next to nothing. The second, and my personal favorite was the story behind the car. |
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| The car was once owned by a Private Investigator in the Bay Area. Thoughts of Dick Tracy immediately sprang to mind, until I learned that he had been living in his mothers house. Suddenly my dreams of a private investigator racing around the bay in a 1966 MGB were replaced by the reality of a struggling man living at home with his mother while his car rots in the street. The car was in such bad shape that the city was forced to remove the car via tow truck leaving the previous owner at his mother's house with no car, and effectively ending the private investigators chance of ever having a date again. The happy ending to this story of coarse is that I ended up with car, and immediately began rebuilding the car to its former glory. |
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| Even though this was by no means my first rebuild of a car, I did face a lot of unique challenges during this project. The first thing I had to do was completely strip the paint off, which foreshadowed the work to come. Before the project was done I ended up completely replacing the interior, as well as repainting the exterior. It was the first project car that I rebuilt the transmission in, and to top it all off I did all of this in an old goat stall. It doesn't get much more "Do it yourself" then that, but as the saying goes "If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself." As you can see, after the rebuild it looks like a completely different car, and I couldn't be happier. |
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