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These are the famous words of someone who took apart an MGA, got in over their head, then let it sit for a number of years and now are trying to sell the car. It is my experience, that although they say it is all there, I am sure it is not.<\/p>\nThese are the famous words of someone who took apart an MGA, got in over their head, then let it sit for a number of years and now are trying to sell the car. It is my experience, that although they say it is all there, I am sure it is not.<\/p>\n
I have bought four cars that were dissembled when I purchased them. I have just finished restoration on one of these cars and believe me it was not all there. In addition to owning thirteen MGAs I have accumulated a lot of parts along the way. I also don’t throw anything out. You never know when you will need it. The question is, will you be able to find it when you need it? I seem to spend a lot of time looking for something I had in my hand five minutes ago.<\/p>\n
I have often wondered how many of our little cars are resting in someone’s basement or garage. I think there are a lot of them out there just waiting for some TLC. Here is a story of one.<\/p>\n
I got an email from a NAMGAR member in Arizona who was at a conference in Chicago and met a women who had an MGA for sale in Pittsburgh. I contacted her and went to look at the car. The car was in a rent-a-spot place outside of Pittsburgh. It was good thing I owned an A or I might not have recognized it. The car was totally dissembled and in a big pile. I did not want to tear into it until I got the story of how it ended up here. She said that her husband was a teacher and they took the car apart at the auto restoration shop at school. He had passed away seventeen years ago and she saved the car for their son. The son was now out of college and he did not want the car. I asked the question, is it all here? She assured me she was very careful when she moved it here from the school seventeen years ago. My next question was do you have a title? That answer was “no”. At that point, I told her that although she thought it was all complete, I thought there would be pieces missing. I made her an offer that she did not accept.<\/p>\n
About two months later I got a phone call on the last day of the month and she said if I could get the car out tonight I could have it for the price I offered. She did not want to pay another months rent. I went over with three friends and a car trailer. First I paid her the price I had offered and then we started to carry the parts into the trailer. At the time I took a quick inventory and when we finished I explained to her that there was no rear end for the car and no A arms and king pins for the front end. In addition to that there wasn’t a single nut and bolt. The point to this story is that it is never all there.<\/p>\n
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