Bleeding the Brake-lines

I felt that brakes could do much better and decided to bleed the break lines.
Screwup - Dent on the Gas Tank
While I was Jacking up, car was lifted and then came back down by couple of inches. I looked around and everything looked fine. I put the jack stands on both sides and lowered the Service Jack to find that the fuel tank has a big dent and I jack-lifted the tank..
Luckily the damage was not bad - no leaks or internal damage.

Since this was first time bleeding, it was quite a bit of work for me and had to bleed couple of times to get it right. Thanks to my wife and dad for the help.. Finally completed the bleeding after 2 days (not whole day) of struggle..

Greasing the front shocks

I learnt a lot by watching on-line videos and wanted to grease the front shocks. I jack lifted from the front (after watching the video).
Screwup - Radiator pushed up
Apparently, it slipped and settled down putting the entire weight on the radiator. It was pushed up by about 2 inches. Looks like radiator was pushed up enough to touch the hood; and had to push the hood hard to close the hood properly.

I was lucked out this time also - no major damage and no leaks from the hood. Temp gauge didn't go beyond 70%, which was same as before this mishap.  Whew...

Greasing went fine on both the front shocks, which improved handling quite a bit. I'm quite impressed with the improvement.

Hunting MGB on Craigslist

Surprisingly, there are lot of MGBs for sale in local CL. I wanted a car which is in a good condition, drivable and not needing any TLC/fixing.  I wanted to enjoy driving this old lil' convertible, until conversion. Mike and I went for test driving the shortlisted MGBs.

First one was good, lil' pricey. Second one was by a dealer owned dented one.  Third one was a clean car, priced just right and more importantly, everything working. Brakes were not so impressive, but was working good and I decided to go for it. A 1979 MGB.. Thanks for the deal Jim!!

Converting to an EV

Why do conversion:

Saving environment for future, reduce dependency on oil, driving alone on Car Pool Lane and learning something new are few reasons I started thinking about converting an old ICE car to an Electric Vehicle.

What do I convert:

I started to think I'll convert my 94 Honda Civic with 208K miles on the dashboard, until I met Mike B in San Jose Electric Auto Association. Mike asked me why am I thinking of converting, what kind of car and why newer cars. He showed his converted car and I was impressed with the cool, old car. I was more  fascinated by the simple design he had implemented. The more I looked at his car, more convinced I was that this is something that I should consider.

In couple of days, I decided to convert an MGB, by MG - a British car.  There you go - an Indian born, American who never went to UK, decides to buy an old British car. I never thought I would buy a car this old and my '94 Civic was old enough for me