He lived a long and productive life! I hope he didn't succumb to a smoking related disease at the end after spending some time at least working a smoke filled environment.

From a longevity perspective I wouldn't refit them they contribute to cill corrosion.

Right a follow up to tidy the thread up and bring it to a conclusion! a happy one :D The alternator that was taken off was as follows; BOSCH 0 120 485 050. KC - 14V 32-60A 31100-PP4-E03 Next to the barcode is 60/4 The service and communication from Guys Auto Electrics in Essex was first class. The o...

You're a very useful chap to have around then Hugh!

Coming back from Prescot the other week I was enjoying myself ascending the hill out of Nailsworth in second gear. The K Series was making a nice howl and I was enjoying the drive shall we say. At some point beyond the dip and bend in the climb I touched the brake momentarily and was promptly overta...

Thanks for the pictures and update John! Have you done any research on 3 Door numbers by any chance? Tom Pinney's website holds the data, but he's not around at present.

Assuming that is a Wedgewood/powder blue shade and not silver? it does look nice; MGTF's look very nice in that colour too.

This has jogged my memory some more, once when my young daughter was in the car I left her in it, shut the door and went to fetch something from somewhere, it locked itself and set off the alarm as she was inside. She thought I'd done it on purpose, i.e locked her in but I obviously hadn't. S o a si...

I've been locked out of a P38 R.R multiple times in Sainsbury's car park in Bath; my fault really I knew the thing held a vindictive hatred toward me and it always happened in the same location! :D I owned a 89 GSI for over 10 years and put over 100,000 miles on her in that time. Not quite the same ...

A man with good taste!