Hi! At long last, the Europa is home in Ocean Park. Got lots of comments from truck drivers in the rest stops we stayed at that noticed the little LBC on our trailer. Odd -- the combo gained approximately 1600 pounds and a car with a drag coefficient of .29 and at times only incurred a .4 mpg loss. It was quieter with the car on it, for sure. Nice car to tow, first car I've towed...
Now -- the decisions... I do know that the car is "bastardized". I can restore it, and would like to. But, as my neighbors come over and peer inside, I am getting new ideas. I have heard that new, locally available U.S.parts such as rocker switches, gauges and fuse boxes would be both cheaper and more easily attainable. And, my MGB is mostly stock -- it has Moss' Cobalt fuel injection, but otherwise has all correct parts and looks restored. So, I have that. Weighing in at about 3 miles distant is a Mazda enthusiast who is telling me that a correctly restored Mazda 12A would last easily over 300,000 miles with no attention. The modification his mentors prefer would also bring in an additional 30 horsepower. So, twink power on a shoestring budget.
www.pineappleracing.com is the website, I believe... I do need several stock parts to complete the car. I still need someone with a twin arm wiper set-up to go out and measure the arm length and the blade length for me, for instance. For auto-jumble hunting. But, for the real decisions...
What do you think? Restore it -- I see in the internet that there's plenty of people pulling the Renault engines and looking for others, so I think that I can acquire one sooner or later. That's really what I want to do. Then use my newly acquired Moss bullet connector kit and straighten out the wiring issues, restoring that poor wiring loom. Then restore that worn out interior.
Or ... Thanks, Dan
