An update.

The Great news is the car was finally approved by the local Inspection station as a Modified car and now has a plate attached to show it is 100% legal. It took 4 inspections as they kept finding little things they thought was not right.

The bad news is that happened 18th of December and I left that day to drive to Hobart, so the workshop owner took the car back to Sydney and put it under a cover in the corner of his workshop awaiting my return on the 12th of January. I drove to Hobart with my wife in the Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV with baby seats fitted, my son, partner and two children flew down and used the car while we were there and flew back. On the way back we had 9 nights in various locations to do some sight seeing. The outlander was doing surprisingly well on the petrol generating electricity down hill and then using it along with the petrol engine on flat road afterwards.

Then the very bad news. Monday the 1st my holiday went downhill. I tripped on the 3rd last step on my sister in law's place and felt the leg pulled behind me and a huge pain just before I hit the ground. I ruptured the Quadriceps tendon tearing it off the knee cap completely. After a very painful wait in the public system I managed to get fixed in a private hospital two days later, I had to then cancel accommodation in Tasmania and Victoria for which I got no refunds, my son flew down to drive the car back with my wife and I flew back business class. An expensive way to not get to do the part of the holiday I was looking forward to the most.

I am now back in Canberra but still in some pain and have a lot of recovery in front of me. 4 Weeks with my leg in a straight brace, 2 weeks allowed to move my leg 30 degrees, after another 2 weeks move up to 60 degrees, then 90 degrees. After 12 weeks I think I can take the brace off fully and then have a lot of physio to fully recover. So not sure when I will be able to drive the MGB, I was planning on going to the MG national meet over Easter but now I feel I will be lucky to drive the Mitsubishi Outlander by Easter so I cancelled my accommodation. Getting in the MGB might take me a long time.

Until last week I was basically in bed watching TV, Now I m going to sit in front of the computer for a while and catch up on the Talk Morgan chat I have missed out on.