Another action packed day at University Motors! Please note the newest item in our GOLDSTAR re-manufactured line-up. This is the MGA remote control assembly. We'll have data on the GOLDSTAR pages in the next couple of days about this remote control assy and the other GOLDSTAR products.
Casey worked nearly all day on the Midget 1500 and has much of that engine/gearbox re-installed. Eariler in the day he concluded the work on the 1977 MGB with the faulty servo and rear brakes -- as well as sorting through some very poor wiring.
Curt worked along this morning with the hydraulics on the MGA so that when the engine/gearbox are reinstalled the clutch works properly. Then he finished re-assembling the Sunbeam Tiger.
Right when I got to work I began a review of the work done on the 1952 MG TD. The gearbox was a little over filled, so I drained out some of that oil. I also lock wired the castellated nuts on the steering cloverleaf. Then I adjusted the clutch -- and by then the owner was in the shop. He looked over the bottom which Andrew had painted yesterday afternoon. I set the timing a little earlier and had the car running when the owner walked in. I helped him run the car up onto his trailer and off he went to reinstall the interior himself.
Trevor spent some time today in our little painting area to make sure it was clean and picked up. James worked around the shop cleaning up.
Andrew went right to work on our GOLDSTAR distributors. We should have those available in about a week.
Lisa struggled more with our computer program. There is much we have to learn!
Several months ago I nearly purchased a new bottom tool box, believing mine to be too damaged to repair. This afternoon I removed each drawer, one at a time, made small repairs, lubricated the slides, and now the box is working excellently! At the price of those new toolboxes, I figure I saved myself a couple of thousand dollars!
I took a couple of technical questions -- and spoke with one gentleman from Connecticut for quite a while. He said he was an instructor, teaching mechanical engineering but admitted he was a klutz when it came to practical application. The Technical Seminars in February had caught his fancy -- and as the new owner of an Arnolt MG, he was keen to come to the gearbox rebuild class.
Gunner sent me a note from Old Cars Weekly to say that a small article was in this week's issue about the tech seminars -- and for those of you who receive the NAMGAR MGA! magazine, there is an advertisment in there for the seminars, too. We should have the PDF of the 2006 seminars up soon.
If you've made it this far, then you'll want to know about the green wood with the graffiti. In 1983 we purchased a building across the street from us on Eastern Avenue. I purchased the edifice, and old bakery, from an old resident of that city. He owed about $4000 in back taxes and I believe I offered him $3000 for the property. He told me to write it down for just $2000 and give him the $1000 in cash. So, at the bank, with his wife signing her name to the deed, I handed the owner ten, one hundred dollar bills, literally behind her back. He was in heaven. That grand bought him a girl friend for a couple months. He was about 75. He died June 27, 1992, three days before my second son was born. I told his widow that we named our boy, James, after her late husband. When you stop around, I'll fill in the blanks. Anyway, about the wooden sign.
We had that old building torn down, but just before Courtade got there with a front end loader, Brandon cut these pieces from the front of the building. The graffiti says: Wilma Pearson is a hoe. She'll give it up. Brandon mounted the siding on a couple of supports and named the creation "Condemned Building 1983." We probably could have sold it to the City for thousands -- if we'd wanted to give it up!
