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Bill Rubenstein wrote:

Many years ago I drove a TR-3 and it, like most Brit cars, needed
parts
frequently. I carried points, plugs, tools to do the valve lash
adjustment and adjustment of the SU carburetors, etc. The
electrical parts were also very suspect (Lucas)

Prince of Darkness!

so I kept several of these on
hand... The dealer never disappointed me when I needed something.

Drove a TR-4 for a couple years and owned an MGB. Carried tools
sufficient to rebuild the MG and a quart of LocTite.

I also owned an MGB as well as the TR-3. Guess I was a glutton for
punishment, but they were great fun autos to drive. I finally sold
the MGB when the kids in my neighborhood at college kept stealing
the knockoff wheel nuts.

I sold mine to my boss's boss. Damn fool put a $1000.00 sound system
in it and then ran it through a car wash with predictable results.

On my first and only date with a particularly attractive coed at
school, we took the MGB to a drive-in theater. (Outdoor movie theater
for you youngsters.) It was a beautiful summer evening and we put the
top down. It was idyllic for a while, at least until a squall line
loomed on the horizon. The movie was excellent, so we put up the top
and stayed through the thunderstorm to *attempt* to see it to its
conclusion, the wiper blades doing a mediocre job at best. With the
wind coming in on her side, she got soaked and didn't deal with it
well. I never asked her out again--I couldn't stand rejection.


ROTFL!!

I bought mine just post divorce and in full mid-life crisis.

I always thought that's what Corvettes are for. g

I had a lot
of one time dates driving the MGB in the Pacific North West where rain is
a Feature. Your post recalls a particularly bad one where the wind was
blowing rain in on her and the semis were blasting water in on me. Might
have been better off with the top down. (

After a point I began to believe that. I finally installed a tonneau cover
and left the top down most of the time, even in lighter rain. Girls didn't
like their coiffures to get blown, so I had to put the top up from time to
time.

Max