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Re: Interesting item on eBay web site item#317967065: MG : Midget

To: "Allen Hefner" <Ajhsys@aol.com>, "Ron Soave" <soavero@yahoo.com>, "Spridgets" <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Interesting item on eBay web site item#317967065: MG : Midget
Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 22:47:20 -0400
Allen, Are you sure the heater box was removed? As I recall, and agin, I 
could be wrong, Some shipped w/o a heater at all. I beleive mostly sent 
to the southern part of the US.

Larry

>>>>On 5/1/00 4:36 PM so and so (Allen  Hefner) said. (And I quote:)

>Well, yeah.  Except for the parts that were Bondoed (sp?) and repainted, and 
>the heater box that was removed, and the NOS tonneau cover for another 
>(later) year, and the carpeted boot, and the aftermarket radio, and the BIG 
>chrome light mounted next to the radio...shall I go on?
>
>As I said in another post about this car, the guy has only had the car for a 
>year, and I don't think he knew what he was getting into.  It would be easy 
>to interpret this car as an original...if you don't know what an original 
>looks like.  The engine is very original.  I don't think the bonnet has been 
>opened very much, because the right hinge was binding when I opened it.
>
>We revel in the maintenance our LBCs require, that's part of the fun of 
>owning one.  This guy is now looking for a Miata, and he has an SUV and a 
>minivan.
>
>Allen Hefner
>SCCA Philly Region Rally Steward
>'77 Midget
>'92 Mitsubishi Expo LRV Sport
>
>- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>
>In a message dated 5/1/00 3:38:16 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
>soavero@yahoo.com 
>writes:
>
><< OK, I'll start - if it's "unrestored all original",
> shouldn't the rockers be black?
> 
> --- type79@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> > 
> > Listers,
> > Here's a Midget in Southern Jersey for sale. I had a
> > fellow lister look at the car and thinks it is a
> > good value for the current bids. >>


Larry Macy
78 Midget

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Larry B. Macy, Ph.D.
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System Manager/Administrator
Neuropsychiatry Section
Department of Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania
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Philadelphia, PA 19104

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