Flyin' Miata has been doing a weekly Facebook Live for about a year and a half. Sometimes it's new products, sometimes it's theory, sometimes it's a car tour. Since we went to working at home a few months ago, I've been doing them all. I'd like to think I've put out some decent content, as I basically just ramble on about some sort of suspension or handling or aero thing. But it's a good way to have an actual conversation with the audience - I can respond to questions and comments in real time. They're all available on the FM YouTube channel if you have some time to kill.
But this week is a more GRM-focused one. I'm giving a tour of the LS1-powered MGB GT. If you have questions about the car or if you want to see all the warts and bumps and mistakes, now's your chance. Live at 2:00 Mountain on Thursday the 25th on the Flyin' Miata Facebook page. If you don't like Facebook, then it'll be available on YouTube afterwards and I'll post a link here at that time.
This is a perfect hotrod! What's funny is that in making the video, especially with the questions, you essentially conduct a class in what "hotrod" means, looks like, and sounds like. That which is perfect (in a dealership/new car/fashion model sense) is a bore. Nice work!
I just watched this. Very nice, though I followed along with the Slowcarsfast build, it's nice to see the car hanging in there, warts and all. I kind of like the paint-like a vintage lacquer.
I have come to accept the paint. The rest of the car matches. It was just frustrating at the time when I did everything in my (insufficient) abilities to give it a perfect finish. Had I pulled that off, I may have spent more time finishing the interior and tidying everything else. It's hard to get the motivation to do a clean, perfect job when it's in a car with damaged paint. And I don't believe in rat rods, so don't go there.
The rabbit flares with the interrupted chrome trim look perfect!
Thanks, the flares and side trim are something I'm pretty happy with.
I put the link in my main MG thread because I didn't see any interest in this thread before the video, but here it is.
Getting too close to the pro-touring scene really soured me on what hotrodding (seemed like it had) started to become in recent years. In other words, when you know enough guys who pay $200-300,000.00 to have others build their '69 Camaros (to states of wax museum perfection), it starts to seem that you might want to re-consider your connection with the skateboard hobby (for financial sense, if nothing else). It's that pull toward "perfect" in a way that didn't remotely exist when the vehicles were first built, and it kind of drains both value and fun out of the hobby. Perfect is what we might want to buy, but it surely doesn't need to be attached to what we build, at least in that laser-edge door gap kind of way that costs thousands per week. Blah, blah, blah.
The MG rocks with the paint it has, but that's maybe just my own standards being overvalued. As someone who has a few gray hairs popping out while I sleep, there's nothing wrong with something old looking a bit aged. Just don't tell the local plastic surgeon.
