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MGA Guru Gone Mobile...
 After lying low around Tallahassee, Florida over Thanksgiving week end, on Monday November 27 we shuffled over to visit MG Classics of Jacksonville in Atlantic Beach, FL. Been here before. Nice club meeting, friendly folks, no one needing anything urgent for their cars, but I did pick up the name of a previously unknown workshop. By Wednesday we were off to visit SJE Classic Car Care in Jacksonville, FL. In the business -- and in this location for two years -- they provide service and full restoration for all British cars (and a few other types).
MG Classics of Jacksonville club meeting
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SJE Classic Car Care - lots of Brit cars in process
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Having visited most of the clubs and shops in Florida on prior visits, and lots of individual friends as well, we were thinking things might be fairly quiet during the holiday season. So, we wandered down the southwest coast to hang around Tech Central Racing in Bonita Springs where we knew people would be regularly tinkering with their British cars on Fridays (and often Saturdays). It is not only driving season in Florida, but also very nice weather (meaning not too hot) to be working on the cars.
December 1st had been off to a good start with old friends and a few new friends, and wondering what new gadgets may lie in wait for us. There was a Spridget in process of getting a rebuilt engine and freshening of the gearbox. A Ford Ranger truck with engine out for a gearbox repair (don't know who let that in here). There was Headley Wilson's MGA with last year's rebuilt 1800 engine, but looks like it has not progressed much since. There was a chrome bumper silver MGB recently acquired for a very reasonable price that would be getting a
Triumph GT6+, TVR, Alpine Tiger
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variety of tune up and adjustments and electrical work in the next few weekends. A red MGB got a carburetor
adjustment same day. A Triumph GT6 Plus was in for some minor repairs, while a resident TVR was hanging around mostly good with not much urgency, and a Sunbeam Tiger was midway through restoration. There was an Alfa Romeo stashed in back that would soon be getting some brake work with the intention of getting it running and roadable in coming weeks. And a Nissan sport-ute that would be getting a new battery before day's end. We tinkered for a short while with a vintage pressure washer with no engine compression and seized spark plug, ultimately relegated to be scrapped.
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January 2018
