That awful colour MGB GT

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SiC wrote: Fri May 06, 2022 7:49 pm And it FTP'd here:
Chinny reckon.
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Big day for my BGT. It's rolled over to 60k!
I've had it for 5yrs the other week and I was hoping to do something on that day. Unfortunately I was on holiday with family, so I didn't get a chance to make it roll over.

I've done almost 2700 miles in it since purchase. Paultry I know but I'll use the excuse that everyone always uses, that COVID got in the way.

Anyway it rewarded me with this milestone by losing a headlight (dodgy connection) and it appears to be leaking oil out of the cooler. Could explain why I get quite high oil usage sometimes!

I should also add that it's 31c out there and the temperature gauge was rock solid where it always is. About a third way around the temperature gauge. I don't have any doubt it can easily withstand much warmer temperatures than that.

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paulplom wrote:
SiC wrote: Fri May 06, 2022 7:49 pm And it FTP'd here:
Chinny reckon.
That's what the yanks said at the time on FB. PhilA can testify that it can be true. As it's on a straight 30mph road, I coasted there out of the way.
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This is now the longest I've ever owned a car. Even cars I intend to keep for a long time end up getting written off or catastrophically fail.

HOWEVER I've hardly used it this year! In truth I think my time with it may come to an end soon. I simply have not really had any urge to take it out anywhere recently and even today, driving it didn't excite me like it used to. I still don't have 100% trust in it either. Always in the back of my mind that it'll suddenly let me down.

The MGB60 is next month and I'm booked in. Definitely going to (attempt) to make that. After that? I really don't know.

Not sure I want to keep it. But the mental thought of selling it and someone else driving it away makes me a bit sad. It would be like saying goodbye to a prodigal friend who you've had a mixed relationship with at times.

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I've hardly used the Minor this year aside from maintenance useage so I know where you are coming from.....I'd never sell it though after 19 years - only Mrs Rocker has been more of a keeper than that. One day it will throw something unfixable at me - probably bodywork related but it will be the last one out the door. I just like knowing it is there....
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SiC wrote: Wed Aug 10, 2022 9:42 pm
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SiC wrote: Fri May 06, 2022 7:49 pm And it FTP'd here:
Chinny reckon.
That's what the yanks said at the time on FB. PhilA can testify that it can be true. As it's on a straight 30mph road, I coasted there out of the way.
Yup, been a long while since I've gone down that way though- it's one of those routes that, from my parents house, you have to actually go out of your way to travel on.

Some nice little byways, so long as you don't catch the inevitable tractors at the thinnest parts.
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Going to get a new oil cooler. Definitely got oil on the back, so probably leaking.

Just debating whether to replace the lines too. Possibly more risk of leaks disturbing them? But then they're rubber and quite old now!
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