Inventory & Teardown

One of the first things I needed to do was "try" and figure out what exactly was inside all of these boxes. Seeing as this would take quite a while I decided to recruite the help of my mechanically inclined friend Tanner. I've known Tanner since elementary school and we've always talked about restoring this car. As we started laying parts on this canvas where we took pictures of every part, we began moving along pretty fast. Part way through the inventory we were trying to find the guages that mount on the dash, and they were nowhere to be seen! After about twenty minutes of searching we finally stumbled across the missing parts, and then went about taking millions of pictures. A few hours of dilegent work went by and we had already finished everything we wanted to do...but we didn't stop there. We decided to take whatever was left, off of the car. This included the tub,(the part of the car you sit in) and usually in modern cars the frame for the car is made out of steel. In an MG TD the frame is constructed out of wood...not the safest car in the world. It will definitely take a while for my mom feel comfortable with me driving it, seeing as they put me in the safest car they could find that will be tricky.


Here's a photo I found of an MG TD assembly line!