Dear Scott,
Thanks for the thoughtful suggestions re: an MGB GT as an all-purpose car.
Roland suggested, quite reasonably, that I consider a trailer. No
insurance, minimal other costs. I am going to reconsider that, but I
thought I should explain why I initially rejected the idea. It was a
variant of TeriAnn's shipwright's disease, which I call "mightaswell"
thinking. It went this way:
A trailer would haul lumber and sheetrock cheaply. However, if I am going
to get a trailer, mightaswell get a small car trailer--it would haul
lumber as well as a utility trailer, and when I find a 62 Ferarri GTO in a
barn (my son bought it new the week before he was kidnapped by aliens, you
look like just the sort of person he would want to have it, would $600 be
too much to ask for it?) I could truck it home. But a car trailer would
be a bit much for the Prelude to pull. I'd have to trade it for something
with a bigger engine. Mightaswell go whole hog, and get a 4WD truck or
Ford Explorer, something that wouldn't struggle pulling a trailer fully
laden with GTO.
But if I had a truck or Explorer, I wouldn't need a trailer. Sh*t, better
rethink this.
Hmmm... maybe an MGB GT *is* the way to go. Slip a 289 Ford V8 in the
sucker, and really *haul* that sheetrock. Not to mention crumpet.
Ray Gibbons Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
Univ. of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu (802) 656-8910
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