Member Page: Stephen Farrell
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Stephen FarrellMember ID: mgdriver67
Status: Silver Member  Pensacola, FL, USA 
Last Login: 2025-11-04 21:39
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I'm a financial professional, married with 3 grown children and 3 grandkids. I have been living in Pensacola Florida since 2005. The previous 30 years was in Louisiana.
I've been a sportscar fan since my teens when my 2nd car was a 1963 MGB. My present B has been with me since 1990 bought as a package deal in Houston along with a long gone 76 TR 6.
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Is There Any Light At The End Of The Tunnel?
Posted on: Saturday December 2, 2017
Last March the engine started spewing oil back through the side vent breather totally blowing off the little chrome filter clamped on top. My $6000 paint job was flaking and cracking already. I had her towed back to the body shop and he speculated that there was a flaw in the prep work. Perhaps the soda residue was not cleaned off with vinegar or some such theory. They took it back to bits again and sanded it to metal. This last week it has paint on it again. Only 9 months so far, it was 18...
1 Step Forward 2 Steps Back
Posted on: Tuesday August 1, 2017
The 67 B was soda blasted to bare metal prior to it being painted a cpouple of years ago. A few months later the paint started dimpling or worse. Pretty disheartening on a $6000 paint job. It's now back in the body shop since March and is back to bare metal including removing the body filler. Apparently they forgot to appropriately prepare the body after soda blasting. I am not sure what that entails but I know is wasn't done correctly. Someone told the bodyshop owner it should have been cleaned...
Got It Back!
Posted on: Wednesday November 11, 2015
The B has been in rehab since July. What a summer. I missed my B but found another Mistress to occupy my attention whilst she was recovering from the bumbling attempt to repair by the previous wrench. First it was a 2015 VW GTI Coupe S 6 speed MT pre owned with 16K mikes. I then traded her back in for new 2016 VW GTI Autobahn 4 door with the 6 speed DSG, performance package, lighting, and Dynamic chassis control. It's a fantastic car. By far the most I ever spent on a vehicle. Two weeks ago I...
Carbs Coming
Posted on: Sunday June 14, 2015
My B started acting up and would run on two cylinders only. Of course it was 9:30 pm and I could not make it the 5 miles home. I called my mechanic and he brought his rollback and dropped me off at home. The next day he informed me I had carb trouble. I was sceptical but decided I had to trust the expert. I had a spare set of AUD-135 SU HS4 so elected to trade them in to Chester Gilliam at Rocky Mountain Roadsters. The newly built carbs will be here Wednesday. While waiting for carbs I decided...
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