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Re: Oh My Gawd

To: <Rhbuxton@aol.com>, <mgs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Oh My Gawd
From: "Carl Elliott" <grunt2@adelphia.net>
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2000 18:36:46 -0500
Your car , Do as you see fit, My car is original to a point, I now have a
metal flake paint job , hood scoop,
Its functional, and special tuning air dam, Looks good to me, Its mine. Carl
E.
----- Original Message -----
From: <Rhbuxton@aol.com>
To: <mgs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 9:00 PM
Subject: Oh My Gawd


> Hi All,
> I am a lurker and don't usually post but I have a question  How much
> modification is okay in your holy eyes?  None?  Just a little?  Or only if
it
> is done in such a way as to maintain the purity, for example putting
chrome
> bumpers on a 1974 and a half, but only if you use  MG parts?  Can I put a
> different year engine in my car and not be a heretic?  How about a V8
Rover
> engine in my car that came with a four cylinder?  If that is okay, why not
an
> american V8?  Oh I know, because it isn't British.  But wait, we all know
the
> engine was designed in America and made in America before it was sold.  So
> where is the line?  I want to put a huge Chevy V8 in my MGB, you can't
tell
> me that it is unexceptable because it isn't pure and you can't tell me
that
> it destroys the handeling because of the additional weight (the difference
is
> that of a passenger or less).  How about a no name top or an aluminum
> cylinder head?  What is okay?
> Running for the flame suit!
> Rick


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