>I think the best thing for me to do is to continue bodging away with the
>help of my five drunken monkeys and just never sell the damn thing.
I have a friend who owns a 289 AC Cobra. He is the second owner and the
car was just a few years old when he bought it.
He tells people he is his own dreaded previous owner. He had no idea he
was going to keep the car so long and that it was ever going to be worth
anything.
He keeps running across those bodges he did 20 plus years ago and forgot
about. I occasionally do the same with The Green Rover. I can't help
but wonder what was going through my head at the time.
Morals to the story; don't settle for bodges because if you keep the LR
they will come back and haunt you and document your wiring.
There have been a number of times I have saved lots of hours making
repairs or additional electrical modifications to The Green Rover because
I do two things: I keep current wiring diagrams of the whole car the way
it really is and I buy the striped wire and maintain the Lucas wire
colour code.
My second car came to me after an engine fire. I rewired it completely
in a single coloured wire. When I went to test everything out became
fully aware of the extent of my folly. But I got such a deal on this
roll of wire with this nifty Teflon insulation.
Famous last words "But it seemed like such a good idea at the time!"
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