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I'll call Jack if you wish. I talked to him last Thursday regarding a different subject.

Had he offered to install the wiring?

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Rick, Jack had offered to install the wiring but that was before he had his accident. Out of consideration, and allowing as how that probably put him behind on his work we wouldn't hold him to it, but still we need to plan. Since the offer was originally conveyed to Steve I asked him to follow up on it but I guess he hasn't had the chance to do it yet. I don't think he'd mind if you did, assuming you are a close acquaintance. I didn't feel real comfortable stepping in as I do not know Jack personally, and I don't think we've communicated directly other than on the MG Experience forum. I'd like to remedy that of course but would feel better about letting someone else bring up the topic of the wiring who knows him a little better and can accurately gauge how much of a burden it would be to him.

If he'd still like to handle that part of the build, the car can go to him immediately after Townsend rather than coming back up here and I can tell Steve C. that we need the wiring kit at the meet. If not, it can come back here for the wiring.

JB

Jim and gang,

If jack can't get to it, or would rather not under the circumstances, leave it here and Jim Watson and I will wire it.

I'm only 2 hours from Dan & Jim W., although his plate's pretty full (Jim's).

I talked to Jack and he said he would do it. I told him we could bring the car after the Townsend meet.
that's as far as we got.

I'm sure he would let other do it they want. I can call him or Rick can.

steve

I've sent Jack an e-mail and copied Steve and Jim.

Should hear from him soon.

I'll follow up with a phone call to him as well; giving him time to read the e-mail, of course.

I've talked with Jack...he is happy to accept the Roadmaster after the V8 meet in order to install the wiring harness.

He is also planning on coming to Townsend for a day to meet us.

I told him the beer would be cold.

Excellent Rick, and guys, thanks for helping with that. I don't know Terry's exact schedule so it'd probably be a good idea to get in touch in the next few days. Rick, since you and Pete are going up and need to coordinate anyway would you like to call him?

JB

We can do that.....please e-mail or PM the contact information. Address of the dealership as well, please!

I sent Rick a PM with Terry's info.

Terry just called me and the car is finished and ready to be picked up. Terry will not be back to Sioux Falls until mid March so Rick, it is now up to you and Pete to schedule the pick-up. There will be some paperwork necessary that Terry has to clear with Mike or whoever oversees the pick up so you'll need to discuss that with him.

Steve DeGroat, we will need to send Terry three receipts for $5000 each in donated work and materials, one for last year, this year, and next year. If you need his address I can send it to you, it is also in the spreadsheet of contributors.

Terry is going to have his guys send me some photos of the car. It is maroon with a silver stripe. Can't wait to see it.

JB

With an indicated value of $15k in paint and bodywork, I bet it will look pretty darned sharp.

Gentlemen, I'd say we've just turned the corner.........now it's all downhill.

Don't forget, that was just the finish work. There was quite a bit of bodywork done before the car ever went up there. So it'd probably be realistic to say that the car has about 20K in body and paint. If you include the body mods for the BBB it'd be even more. Once we start tallying up the other improvements, about 7K for the IRS, 3K for exhaust, 5K for the engine, then seats, wiring, tranny, radiator/fan, and various odds and ends plus labor and it wouldn't be out of line to put the value of the car around 50K in my view. Add in the value of it's unique character and circumstances of it's creation and, well it depends on what value the market sees in such things but what that does mean is that we've just done an outstanding job of achieving what we set out to do.

Yes, we have turned the corner. From here on it is all just reassembly. We will have a chance as a group to decide exactly the direction that reassembly will take. Remember, when we started this project the goal was just to prove that a BBB could be installed in an MGB. We've had a bit of "feature creep" along the way, with the paint job as the obvious high point. Honestly, it now has the potential to look better than the cars most of us own. That is way far and beyond our original concept but on the plus side, it means the car will just be that much more effective in fulfilling it's role in attracting new blood to our sport. Where we would have relied on flash, now we can almost completely support that goal with substance. It will indeed be a most impressive car, and one that any one of us can be proud to drive around town in. I can only hope this will give each of us enough incentive to get out there and show it off when we have custody of it, rather than letting it languish in the garage unseen. After all, that is the whole point.

JB

By the way guys, I ended up going with American National (ANPAC/Chrome) insurance. Seemed the least restrictive & had good rates. I talked with them a bit about insuring the Roadmaster too. They do write policies for vehicles owned by a company, non-profit, etc. I need to know some details for them to write the policy ---

Valuation we want to put on it -- may ultimately need an appraisal but value we think is enough to get a quote.
Owner -- e.g. to whom is it titled -- and if not a person, then the name of the company, state of incorporation (if incorporated), etc.

One of the things that seems to affect the insurance is who the drivers are... that may not be easy to answer -- I doubt having multiple drivers is as much of a problem as knowing the driving record of the drivers. I'll have to talk w/them to see how we could handle the car being moved from person to person.

Sounds good Rob, let's continue to explore that. It wouldn't be the only time we went with plan B. B.A.D.A.S.S. LLC is the owner. We'll know who has it when before we start and they regularly request driving records in their business.

JB

I will need a picture to use for the T-Shirts for this year.
Let me know when you get some.

Steve

First order of business, Rick, when will you guys be able to pick up the car?

JB

I thought you said Terry was not available until mid-march?

We also do NOT want to risk any blizzards, etc.

I would anticipate the last half of March sometime.

He said he doesn't have to be there for you to pick it up. But that's OK, do it when you can, and by all means stay away from blizzards. Edith claims there's some bizarre ratio of blizzard size to weight gain and the Oreo ones are the worst! (I don't listen of course) Anyway back on point, I'll try to get up there the following weekend if I don't have schedule conflicts. Spring break is out of course but hopefully we can squeeze in a work weekend before Townsend, maybe the last weekend of April.

JB

Jim,
I have tried to e-mail you and have not been successful.
Please send me Terry's contact info.

Steve