MGB GTat

[diesel=ambrosia]

I've finally got some pictures of the foolhardy impulse purchase I made not long ago. My free time since has mostly involved putting up extensive shelving in the garage and dis-guarding assorted hoarded scraps of wood, off cuts of carpet, false limbs etc...

Hopefully I'll be able to collect soon and begin to soil the newly painted garage floor with copious amounts of  iron oxide and tears.

 

[diesel=ambrosia]

A few more pics. I've included a couple of the yard/field of the previous owner as he has quite and interesting collection of shite.

[mercrocker]

Great stuff in that yard, there....Can imagine folk on here creaming over the 120Y coupe.   I am a little concerned there might be a Beta pick-up lurking there as well?

[michael1703]

You should see if Beko wants that hoover

[xtriple]

I've taxed worse...

 

Looks okay does that. I look forward to the years of restoration threads we have to look forward to!  

[diesel=ambrosia]

Yeah its a beta pick up. I asked about it but it's just been stored for the owner. Shame to see it slowly rotting away.

Yes I intend to build one good one out of the two a flog the leftover parts.

The digger is still in use for general diggery type duties. I want a go.

 

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[Tamworthbay]

Any useable bits on the S Capri? It looks very frilly around the arches and sill so guess it's too fooked to restore.

[diesel=ambrosia]

There's a few usable bits; doors, some interior and running gear but the photo hides the fact there is not and engine or gearbox. 

[beko1987]

That looks like an Electrolux. Possibly around the same era as the XI, but it does look different

 

 

plus that's a yank picture, our UK machines may be different.

 

Looks like a project and a half though, although I imagine that hose wont hold air for shit!

[beko1987]

Apparently it could/may be an Electrolux 25, which had the longest run of all the models of that time due to popularity. Knowledge came from someone with more experience of this age of machine than myself though!

[Mr A Lawrence]

Years ago I worked for an agricultural tyre company and was sent out to repair a jcb in a field in the middle of nowhere, fixed the puncture in no time so had a bit of time to kill.

 

I spent the next hour digging the biggest hole I could with the back actor then filled it back in.

 

Top fun.

 

The mgb looks not too far gone, there's one not far from me rotting away on someone's driveway.

 

My mates knocked loads of times but the owner won't sell.

 

Shame really.

[Tamworthbay]

There's a few usable bits; doors, some interior and running gear but the photo hides the fact there is not and engine or gearbox.

 

that's a shame, but if he is looking to get rid give me a shout. And good luck with the GT, I had one as a daily for a few years and loved it to bits, sadly my right foot was too heavy and I couldn't live with 15-18mpg. Great fun when driven close to the edge with someone who doesn't know old cars in the passenger seat.

[Joey spud]

Where is this auto shite utopia,that early 120y coupe is winking at me ?

[diesel=ambrosia]

I'll have to converse with the owner about revealing his location. I think the 120 is being stored for a friend as are some other of the beauties.

 

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[Fabergé Greggs]

MGB GT's look ace on steel wheels methinks.

[beko1987]

Im still waiting to be offered the hoover! Atcnbe...

[diesel=ambrosia]

I'll have a word and see if the hoover is included in the sale. I very much doubt he's put it in the car for safe keeping though. 

[diesel=ambrosia]

Last week I finally collected my new treasure and last night I finally inserted it neatly into the garage. Well you can't just rush straight into these things can you?

Was a lovely morning and I headed about two mins up the road to the yard where the car was waiting, I'd spoken to the mechanic I was buying it from (who was also facilitating the delivery) and he said I'd be best removing the steering lock as there was no key and we didn't want the steering lock deciding to engage during maneuvering. 

I set about removing the entire mechanism from the steering column, was lovely to start working on the car in the glorious sunshine surrounded by other shite. I dropped the steering column down in order to access the top of the shear off bolts, tried tapping them round with a hammer and punch and had no such luck. Instead I removed the whole column from the car and we just cut it off with a grinder, I was to worried out fubaring it as have a donor car which I can hopefully transplant from. I refitted the butchered column to the car and we set about trying to roll her from her resting place. The whole job was pleasantly simple and straight forward something I'm not used to with my previous modern shite. 

 

She wouldn't roll, so much to my own personal excitement we fired up the digger!! Wrapped a chain around the spring hanger and the other end on the digger bucket and dragged her out. Brakes now forcibly freed off we hitched her to a ranger rover with a rigid bar and journeyed the short distance home.

 

 

I pretty much immediately started stripping out the seats and carpet to have a look and the condition of the car, I then realized I was ill equipped, so missioned to machine mart and bought a set of 9 clarke imperial spanners for £23 with a lifetime guarantee.  

 

What I found beneath the drivers seat wasn't the best but there was still some solid metal left. I also found £1.85 in very moldy coinage! That's only £498.15 to generate through sale of leftover parts in order to break even!

[diesel=ambrosia]

The fruits of yesterdays labors were a sharp U turn in the project. I removed the front wing from the chrome bumpered car, had a prod and poke about and discovered multiple previous bodges such as pieces of metal siliconed over holes as well as plenty of rot. I then went and had a good look at the rubber bumper car which is lovely in comparison. I thought it would be a shame to butcher a good car so I'm now going to convert it to chrome bumpers and restore the newer car.

 

[fatharris]

Thats a bloody shame, that, still at least it'll die so another lives!

 

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[diesel=ambrosia]

It may not have to die completely, all I really need is the chrome trim and bumpers, glass, door cards and maybe the odd clock/interior trim. I think I would get more money if I broke for parts once I'm done rather than sold as an incomplete car. 

[John F]

Is it really that bad? The rubber-bumpered one would look wrong in chrome, and the final product would lose that all-important* pre-1973 cachet.

 

If it was mine I'd just crack on & sort it out.

 

(insert Maserati joke here)

[diesel=ambrosia]

I've decided after much deliberation to not to rape and pillage either vehicle and just restore the both.

Was a little overwhelmed at first but the rubber bumper car has a really good shell so is a good start for my first full on resto, so I'm going to cut my teeth on that one and the white one can be a very pretty driveway ornament before I give it the attention it deserves

 

 

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