Not so short a story!

Welcome to the Madness, Jim!

That's a pretty cool story!   Thanks for sharing!

9 months is impressive.

Welcome to the Madness Jim.  Post a few more pictures. 

Very cool. I really like the rims.

Way to go, Jim-- and welcome!

Be sure to talk to Gordon  about installing a blast furnace for heating in the winter in your area.....ha Ha ......and welcome too........Bruce

Thanks for the warm welcome.... There is a lot more to the story and yes, I have lots of pics, but most are actual photographs taken with one of those old fashioned things..... a camera! So, I will convert the build pics to digital and post the build from the beginning. And eventually, pics of what I am doing now.  It has been sitting for the past 7 years in storage.  Now, it is being completely gone through. So far, the basics: Oil change, fuel tank drained, new fuel pump installed, new carb, brakes bled and new backing plates rear w/ wheel cylinders, shoes and hardware, new speedo and tach, (speedhut), new wiper switch, new horn.  I guess a car that was built in '83 is now an antique even though it is a replica of an antique!  

Nothing wrong with antiques, Jim.  Most of us on this forum fit that qualification.

Creaky antique here too (but smart enough to move to FL!).  So is that the nose of matching color MGA in photo? Measure width of the Ghia seats - suspect you'll have to narrow them a good 2-4" for them to fit narrow chassis.

Yes, I am certainly getting creaky!  And creakier as the snow piles and the temps drop.

Yes, that is my friends MGA, 1960 I believe.  He was taking his to storage and drove by my storage garage as I was dragging mine out of storage! He put the MG away for the winter. I drove mine over to my house and now my regular car is out in the snow while I putter with the Porsche.  I adapted the seat frames years ago using electrical conduit welded to the original frames to narrow the floor tracks.  I am not very big or heavy, but the original kit seats were horrible. So, these Ghia seats are getting new upholstery and foam padding and are looking great in my basement workshop! Pics to follow soon.  

40 Hours to build... Ha!  We all are looking for that last zero that suddenly fell off and rolled............ somewhere :~)             Welcome to the Madness.   ~ Drclock

Here is a little better phone pic of the MGA and Porsche prior to our first snow this year...

Nice. I bought an early '80s TD kit eight years ago and it was registered as an antique—the build date qualified, and it was the newest thing about the car! I realized that the kit was already older then than a real TD was when the kit was built. 

Your build still looks great, as does your buddy's MGA.

Welcome.

Haha,,,, Yes, sometimes I feel like a time traveler! 

Hi, Jim!   And we welcome your return to the Madness!

Way back in 1967 I was headed to Houston, TX, and picked up a magazine at the airport - the first year, first issue of "Dune Buggies" magazine.  I was thoroughly hooked.  It took a while to get to it, but I ended up building a Dune Buggy, then a bunch of dune buggies, and then Life got in the way for 25 years or so until I finally built a CMC Speedster.  40 hours, HA!  More like 7 years, but it got done and I've been having fun with it ever since.  Just put her up for the winter last Friday after filling the tank and doing a final run around town.  And now a lot of us in the Great White North sit around watching too much TV (Ooh!  We can Binge on "The Crown"!!) until the driving season returns.  

Get that going over going!  You daughter is probably itching for another ride!

She just brought it up when she was home for Turkey Day! I told her it was out of the old garage and at our house being worked on with every spare minute!  We checked it out in the garage and she couldn't believe she used to sit in the boot, in a baby seat! I think she has her eye on it for a second car.... But she is gonna have to be patient, very patient! She is 31 now, married and a professor. Wow! Time Passes faster than a speeding........ Porsche!