Agree, the only thing I couldn’t fix myself cause I didn’t have welder. Friend had Mini Cooper MK it was blast.

I will! When does the club meet again?

I had a Spitfire. Ran great for a couple of years. Then, one day smoke came out from under the hood. I popped the hood and saw a white-hot wire burning in a bundle. I found a rag and tore the wire out. When I quit sweating, I got back in the car. Started up. All the gauges worked. All the lights worked. Just like nothing had ever happened. I drove it for several more years and without a problem. I had to give it up when my first child was born. Twenty years later it was time to get back in. I ran right down to the British Layland dealer. Oops...

The only modern car with the same feel is the Miata.

BTW driving a small British car is the most fun you can have with all of your clothes on.

Carburetor’s have internal check balls, if left out can cause vacuum leak. (how do I know this? When I was 18 I rebuilt my first autolite 4100, found small ball bearing in the clean up pan, I looked at the parts break down with kit and it didn’t show it. I had to get repair manual to find out where it went, symptoms was similar to you’re’ s)

Any shop with experience on carburetor’s, ( side drafts??) should be able to rebuild the carburetor after they diagnose the problem (not intake manifold leak, vacuum hose broken, cracked, fell off, or even cracked intake manifold?

Which one is Glenn's

There is an auto repair shop in Leesburg that does work on foreign cars. Sorry, don’t remember the name. I’m sure you can Google it.

Many of your posts are making me feel really lucky. I owned a 1979 MGB for a few years and never had to touch it.

Two of the best days of my life was the day I bought my 2005 Lotus Elise - and the day I sold it. When not in the shop, it was like driving a shifter-kart.