who sold that MG recently??

[retrogeezer]

and where was the thread or photos? (poxy useless forum search moan, groan etc etc)

[seth]

This one?

 

 

If so then it was me.

[retrogeezer]

Yep, that one....how much was it again?? £2k?

 

A friend is going to look at this one tomorrow...

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 500wt_1182

[Tayne]

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[trigger]

There a tidy rubber bumpered model for sale outside my local pub for £2250.It's also the same colour blue as Seth's old one, you can just about see it in the Princess photos in my spotted thread.

[trigger]

Just had a look at the MGB GT near mine, it's a 1979 on a T, looks just like Seths, has 13000 miles on the clock, the bodywork is very good although you can see it's been painted at some point as the passenger door has started to craze.It's stated as having 6 months tax and 12 months mot but it's been sat on the pub forecourt a little while now, and the interior is very tidy and has a cd player, the price is £2250 though you could get it cheaper i reckon.Mind you it's miles away from you so this post is a bit pointless really!

[retrogeezer]

Cheers Trigger, I'm not actually sure where this mate of mine is living at the moment (he's a forum friend!). He doesn't know much about cars so I am trying to put him off an MG as they are hardly ideal for someone like that.

[seth]

We sold ours for 2.5k within a week of an advert appearing on line. It had been very well restored and the people who came to look at it knew what and where to look. They'd already seen a bunch of tarted up dross for similar kind of money.A chrome bumper, tax exempt car will always be worth more than the equivalent rubber, taxed one. That looks pretty nice in the pictures but they don't really show a lot of detail. You need to look out for rust bubbling (or filler reapirs...) on the top of the bulkhead by the windscreen and on the joins between the rear wing and C pillar.A B can be an ideal classic for someone who doesn't know about cars as they are really basic machines so he can either start to learn to do things himself or find a friendly garage who are not going to be put off by strange engineering. There are so many MG specialists all over the country and as you can buy everything you could run one in the same was as a modern while being completely ignorant of its inner workings (like a modern)

[retrogeezer]

Thanks Seth, I'll give him that info. I know mechanically they are pretty simple but I remember from my days as an MOT assistant in the mid 80's how these rot underneath, especially the outriggers and this guy is no welder.Yours did look very tidy.

[Station]

Can't you just remove the rubber bumper and put the chrome on? I actually prefer the rubber bumpers, think they look a bit more, er, 'shite'.

[Mr Lobster]

Have to say I prefer the rubber bumpers too. Partly because all the MG purists don't like them though

[Vin]

If you can find a chrome one and then put rubber bumpers on, that would be better

[Captain Mainwaring]

Another one for rubber bumpers here, if only for originality's sake.Plus there's always going to be an MG anorak who'll know you've replaced the bumpers from the registration number and the ride height.

[dollywobbler]

Yeah, chrome-conversions where they haven't dropped the suspension always look very odd!Apparently, back in the mid-Seventies, people were throwing away their chrome bumpers and fitting the rubber ones so their MGBs looked up to date! I've got a bit of a hankering for a BGT myself at the mo...

[Station]

Buy a 60's MGB, put Ripspeed alloys on, neons, put the rubber bumper on (painted with hi temperature silver paint). Take it to classic car show, wait for the purists to attempt to gang up and mock your efforts, swiftly dispatch a roadhouse kick to their throats.

[Captain Mainwaring]

Or take a grenade or two and get rid of the cunts and their fucking cars once and for all.

[barrett]

bit harsh innit??!

[Des]

If going chrome to rubber, you want the MGC, that should get the flatcaps buzzing, don't know if the wheelstud pattern might be the same as the regular Sherpa coupe, as would maybe allow OE Toyota or Nissan alloys, nice.

[Captain Mainwaring]

bit harsh innit??!

Yes.

[dollywobbler]

If going chrome to rubber, you want the MGC, that should get the flatcaps buzzing, don't know if the wheelstud pattern might be the same as the regular Sherpa coupe, as would maybe allow OE Toyota or Nissan alloys, nice.

Now that sounds like a plan. Chuck in some Toyota seats too perhaps and those side marker lamps that everyone used to fit in the Eighties.

[Captain Mainwaring]

Toyota? Chuck them lurid rubber bumper seats in!