Member: Allen Bachelder

Allen Bachelder Membership Status: Silver Member Member Since: 2003-11-07 Home Site: The MG Experience Location: Harbor Beach, MI, USA   Email: [Sign in to view] Website: [No website] Last Login: 2010-07-10 05:33:04 Last Forum Posts: 2010-07-10 05:46:20 Forum Posts: 191

Some information about me –

• Fanatic collector of octagonal automobiles! I've been playing with and using MGs for daily driving since 1984. Now retired, I've moved from SW Virginia to Harbor Beach Michigan where I own and operate SPRING CREEK HOME FOR WAYWARD MGS - a nonprofit nonbusiness operated exclusively for the pleasure of its proprietor (me, of course!). About the picture... In 2003 we drove our first Magnette, "Nettie", from New Castle Virginia to Mount Hood, Oregon for NAMGAR GT28. Mount Hood shows in the background in this picture. The trip was outlandishly successful and Nettie did the 6000-mile round trip without any problems. In a moment of insanity, we have since sold Nettie, but there is still, and will always be, a Magnette in our MG stable. Her name is "Geraldine" and she can be seen below.

Allen Bachelder's Vehicle Registry

1949 MG YT
"YerTle"
YT4127EXU

1953 MG TD
"TeDdy"
TD27890

1958 MG Magnette ZB Varitone
"Geraldine"
KATT4322988

1960 MG MGA 1600
93085

1963 MG Magnette MkIV
"Iris"
GHS2L21863

1965 MG MGB
GHN3L57254

1969 MG MGC GT
"Cecil"
GCD108703

1973 MG MGB GT
"BriGiT"
GHD5UD320993

2005 Sunbeam Sweetheart
"Alice"
8252005

2007 Sunbeam Sweetheart II
"Claire"
8242007

10 Vehicles -- Total mileage: 592,650 mi (953,778 km) -- Average age: 1970

Journal – Allen Bachelder's Journal

There are 9 entries in this Journal.
Showing summary of the most recent Journal entries:

Our "Cover Picture" Car: #31962

Posted on: Sunday September 27, 2009

Our "cover" picture (or signature picture) here on MG Experience is "Nettie", our first running Magnette. It was taken at Mount Hood Oregon, where we had driven her from New Castle Virginia for NAMGAR GT28 in 2003. Regrettably, we sold Nettie a year later to a buyer in Florida. Another year later, he sold it on Ebay and the car disappeared off the planet until it showed up at a Leake Auction in Houston on September 19th-20th, 2009. She sold at auction for a mere $1100 - less than 20% of her sell...

Progress On "Geraldine", The Magnette

Posted on: Sunday September 27, 2009

I visited "Geraldine" in the 'hospital' Friday (and every day, currently). The 'hospital' is Russ's Body Shop here in Harbor Beach where Geraldine has been getting some dermatological long-term care. She's looking much better now and her "hulk" will be home soon for reunion with her engine, transmission, and a few other parts. Then she goes back for outpatient-care: fitting of wings, bonnet, boot-lid, and doors.

September 2009: A Great Month For TeDdy

Posted on: Tuesday September 15, 2009

Following "The Brake Job From Hell" TeDdy finally hit the road again this month, and just completed his longest trip under my ownership: 260 miles round-trip from here in Harbor Beach Michigan to Detroit and return - for the Detroit Triumph Club's annual "Battle of the Brits" - Michigan's largest British car show. At such a large show, you can imagine my surprise and delight in seeing TeDdy judged 2nd in class! TeDdy got so excited, he started tooting his own horn on the way back. I had to stop...

Magnette Conversion Plates

Posted on: Friday May 30, 2008

The main problem in converting a Z Magnette (ZA or ZB) from its original 1500 engine to a five-main 1800 is attachment of the Magnette 1500 oil pick-up brackets. The five-main 1800 not only lacks the attachment holes, it lacks the casting surface in which they were originally drilled in the original engines. I solved this problem with a conversion plate which sandwiches between the block and the sump. It provides mounting surfaces for the oil pick-up brackets, while adding 1/4" ...

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