Topic: Our new addition
We gave a little thought to Life After Wartburg and I owe the team a car. Well a few months ago a posting came up on GRM for a 1980 MGB rolling shell with a 1/2 cage for $100
The seller was local(ish) and I figured I couldnt go wrong so I made the deal sight unseen and thanks to the prolific amounts of snow we didnt get to pick it up until today.
During our wartburg work we discussed drivetrain options, and the team is really pushing for magic spinning triangles. Well, we go to get the car and it has 2 ratty but possibly usable racing seats in it, an older but usable spax tube shock conversion on it, rear swaybar, and it appears that it was previously converted to rotary power so all the necessary chassis mods are done. It also came with just enough spares/unnecessary parts that we should be able to sell it down to $0 to start. The roll bar is of unknown/questionable quality so we'll just cut that out and start over to be safe.
Coming to a Lemons event in 2011. After the warburg this one just seems easy.
OTTER: "I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part."
BLUTO: "We're just the guys to do it."