My MG Metro - thinking about selling - now sold

[RichardMoss]

I can't remember if I listed this on here, but if I didn't it's too late anyway

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Thinking about my 1982 MG Metro, I'm starting to come round to the idea that I just don't have enough time during my visits to the UK to give it the attention it needs. So, I'm thinking of selling it.

 

1982 MG Metro 1300 in some sort of silver paint which looks like crazy paving. That must make it one of the oldest MG Metros left in one piece. Grey seats (not black).

 

This is a 1982 built, 1983 registered car (if my memory serves me right) and was originally shipped to Cyprus but brought straight back to the UK - never having been registered in Cyprus. One owner from new until late 2011 when MG Mal rescued it, before selling it on to me. It has a huge pile of history - including the original bill of sale.

 

It's had some welding which seems to be solid but is a bit scruffy (the usual boot corners etc) but needs a bit more. Rear arches are not too bad and the floor seems to be OK - it got a first time MOT pass last time. The doors were rotten so I have replaced them with better ones in the right colour. I have a couple of spare front wings, a bonnet and tailgate as well as a pile of spares in the boot.

 

It's a solid prospect which needs a bit of TLC. I want to keep it away from the Mini owning bastards who would rape it for its engine and anyone who bought it would have to promise to do the same.

 

I'd be asking £350 and no haggling at that. That said, I won't scrap it, I won't let its engine go to a Mini and if it doesn't sell to a good home then it is coming to no harm at all in a nice, dry garage.

 

 

......but whether I did or did not, it is now sold - to a good home to be a project car but the new owner can tell you all about that. I'm glad it has gone to a good home

[londonm]

Funny, isn't it? I agree that this car needs and deserves to be preserved yet at the time it was made I'd have looked at it and thought 'how dare they put a MG badge on a bloody metro'. Funny how times change.

[Wilko220]

Missed this first time around.

Is the new owner someone on here, Richard?

[brickwall]

It's a very good example. Just a few blisters here and there. Mine was black with red edging and it returned to being iron deposits in the ground quite quickly.