Still waiting - but the last two weeks of down-time has been productive.
Took the truck in for a front-end rebuild. I really don't have enough garage length to properly tear up a front end on a pickup. $2200.00 later it still drives like a truck, but at least I can keep it between the fenceposts, it's safe, and I'm less concerned pulling a trailer.
But a far more rewarding expense was personally rebuilding the front end on the MGB.
I've owned two. The first one, I never did anything with, and while it wandered a bit, it was acceptable for a college student more concerned with beer and grades. But at the end of the day, it was too far gone to warrant putting any money into.
But the one I've owned for the last 15 years we've put 30,000 miles on. It's been to Toronto, Sudbury, Killarney Provincial Park, the UP, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Cedar Rapids, Detroit, Wilmington, and all points in between.
During the build of the Midget, I let a lot of things go south on the B, most notably, the front end.
I attacked it last Wednesday, the shocks arrived today, it's all freshened up, and tighter than a frog's ass.
No more clunks, no more on-ramp insecurities, no more shaking - even on Milwaukee streets.
Right now, it's the best handling MGB I've ever driven, and the happiest I've ever felt about dropping $600.00 dollars on overpriced parts.
It's like a new damned car.