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Phil, I m sure he did enjoy your visit. When he opened the business, he was the youngest new car dealer in the state of Indiana, selling MG TDs as a side business out of a gas station he was running at the time. He would take an order from a customer, then have a friend drive him to Chicago where he would pick up the car from the distributor and drive it back to Logansport to deliver it. The wind from a passing truck blew the door off the first new TD he ever sold (apparently they didn t always latch tightly even when new) and he wound up having to do bodywork and lose money on the car. He told me he should have realized that was an omen. Here s a photo of the place when I worked there in the 70s (sorry the sign isn t visible) [img]
http://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/AGzIn_Dtft ... C99FC9.jpg[/img] And here s what it looks like now. (They re helping me with bodywork on my MGA.) Still the same business, but sadly the MG sign is gone. [img]
http://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/AGzIn_Dtft ... EBC7B6.jpg[/img] Steve Cool, thanks for the followup. When I made my impromptu stop in 1993, the apparent owner/proprietor seemed to enjoy the idea that a couple of old MGs just passing through stopped in. I'll have to look, I'm pretty sure I took a picture of the car under the sign - after all, how many MG dealership signs were still up in 1993? (he had to have been one of the last). [img]
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[b]Subject:[/b] [mg-tabc] Re: Tranny Release Bearing Phil, Yes, absolutely it was in Logansport. The business is now run by the youngest son of the founder. The business went from being an MG/Jaguar/Triumph/Fiat dealer when I was there to being a Jeep/Chrysler dealership. Chrysler jerked those lines during the government bailout. They very nearly went out of business after that, but they managed to hang on and now repair and restore vintage British and Italian sports cars, and are a strong supporter of SCCA to boot. Steve
