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Title: Lovely MG
Post by: Bent valve on 16 November 2010, 22:37:05
Do you think this would be a good restoration project?

Bit of T- CUT perhaps and some new tyres...http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/MG-B-GT-GOLD-/150521235381?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item230bc3c7b5
Title: Re: Lovely MG
Post by: Del Boy on 16 November 2010, 22:45:33
I'd love to buy my youngest something like that to work on  :)
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Post by: symes on 16 November 2010, 23:12:40
This is what I had to do on my consul (http://)
Title: Re: Lovely MG
Post by: Bent valve on 16 November 2010, 23:30:12
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This is what I had to do on my consul (http://)
T-CUT and new tyres?
Title: Re: Lovely MG
Post by: Marks DTM Calib on 17 November 2010, 08:03:00
Lol, not sure that is moveable with building a supporting frame around it!
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Post by: Welung666 on 17 November 2010, 08:11:21
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Lol, not sure that is moveable with building a supporting frame around it!

I thought that! ;D ;D Just take a shovel and a few black bags ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Lovely MG
Post by: Psychoca on 17 November 2010, 09:16:16
Is that one of those lowest bid jobbies, to try to get someone to take it away....  Not sure it would even restore, I can't see a usable piece on it anywhere, except maybe the rear light clusters...
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Post by: henryd on 17 November 2010, 09:22:24
its certainly not a rolling restoration project but for someone who is willing to stump up for a new heritage shell it would yield a lot of parts
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Post by: The Red Baron on 17 November 2010, 09:22:44
looks a bit beyond it to me. :o
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Post by: Dishevelled Den on 17 November 2010, 09:25:29
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Do you think this would be a good restoration project?

Bit of T- CUT perhaps and some new tyres...http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/MG-B-GT-GOLD-/150521235381?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item230bc3c7b5


 ;D ;D Splendid - although it may take slightly more than that to restore marital relations in this household.......


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I've basically had a strop with husband and just want it off the drive which is why I don't want it delayed any longer by waiting for documents from the DVLA
Title: Re: Lovely MG
Post by: aaronjb on 17 November 2010, 10:40:17
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I've basically had a strop with husband and just want it off the drive which is why I don't want it delayed any longer by waiting for documents from the DVLA

After reading that bit - and knowing it has no V5 - would you actually take it away? I'd be wondering if the husband & wife were going to fall out again over 'her' selling 'his' car and him report it stolen!
Title: Re: Lovely MG
Post by: bluey on 17 November 2010, 12:38:16
That'd drag on a trailer easily enough.  It looks awful but I've seen worse and they're actually an easy motor to sort out apart from the front wings, they can be a real pain to get right. 

I wouldn't bother with the heritage re-shell as they're something like £6k before you get any paint on them.  For that sort of money there's plenty of decent outfits that would do the whole lot ready for re-fitting.
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Post by: mantahatch on 17 November 2010, 13:39:42
£100.00 and "reserve not met" snigger  ;D ;D
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Post by: mrgreen on 17 November 2010, 15:39:31
i'm with you Manta 100 quid for what? i wozuldn't take it for that money can't imagine what the chassis is like!
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Post by: bluey on 17 November 2010, 17:21:04
What the reserve is would be interesting.  Budgeting for sills, wings, inner wing repairs and probably patching up the front floors (rot on GT models can often be less severe than the roadster for obvious reasons) will take the budget for someone doing this at home to about £1.5k.  Add in a decent paint job, new interior, running gear overhaul and you're looking at a bill for around the £5k mark. Probably need another grand in reserve too.  bet a fair bit of that would be spent on spools of wire and gas for the MIG welder!  ;D
Title: Re: Lovely MG
Post by: Psychoca on 17 November 2010, 19:40:37
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i'm with you Manta 100 quid for what? i wozuldn't take it for that money can't imagine what the chassis is like!

You can see part of the chassis through the hole in the wing...  More holes than swiss cheese....

Judging by the state of the bodywork, I shudder to think what is left of the engine...
Title: Re: Lovely MG
Post by: waspy on 17 November 2010, 20:11:51
That "pile of scrap" is exactly that. It wouldn't even fetch £100.00 scrap value, there's not much left of it ;D
He should order a skip & a shovel ;D
Title: Re: Lovely MG
Post by: albitz on 17 November 2010, 20:22:15
No such thing as a lovely MG - they are all rusty heaps of sh1te. :D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Lovely MG
Post by: Bent valve on 17 November 2010, 22:35:07
I love the period sticker in the o/s rear window, they were all the rage in the 80's with messages like 'Designed by computer, built by robots,driven by an idiot'  ;D
Title: Re: Lovely MG
Post by: 2woody on 18 November 2010, 11:26:23
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I'd love to buy my youngest something like that to work on  :)

I have a 1500 Midget in similar condition that you can have for the cost of the petrol to transport it to you from Lincolnshire

[pm me if interested]
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Post by: Kevin Wood on 18 November 2010, 13:58:35
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I'd love to buy my youngest something like that to work on  :)

I have a 1500 Midget in similar condition that you can have for the cost of the petrol to transport it to you from Lincolnshire

[pm me if interested]

If only you could still buy Westfield eleven kits. ;)

Kevin
Title: Re: Lovely MG
Post by: 2woody on 18 November 2010, 15:15:41
I've got enough bits to make about ten of those !!!
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Post by: aaronjb on 18 November 2010, 15:31:46
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I'd love to buy my youngest something like that to work on  :)

I have a 1500 Midget in similar condition that you can have for the cost of the petrol to transport it to you from Lincolnshire

[pm me if interested]

If only you could still buy Westfield eleven kits. ;)

Kevin

Ahh that might have been what the purple bike-engined thing was at Anglesey..

(http://batpics.dyndns.org/e/1043/therugseller/tb825603.jpg)
Title: Re: Lovely MG
Post by: Kevin Wood on 18 November 2010, 15:39:13
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Ahh that might have been what the purple bike-engined thing was at Anglesey..

(http://batpics.dyndns.org/e/1043/therugseller/tb825603.jpg)

Nope. That looks like a Fisher Fury / Sylva Phoenix.

Nice paint job... if you like that sort of thing. :-X

This is a Westfield 11:

(http://www.motorbase.com/uploads/2008/10/28/fs_1a.jpg)

Kevin
Title: Re: Lovely MG
Post by: Kevin Wood on 18 November 2010, 15:41:17
Yuk!

Let's try that again

(http://www.motorbase.com/uploads/2008/10/28/fs_1a.jpg)

Kevin
Title: Re: Lovely MG
Post by: aaronjb on 18 November 2010, 16:01:06
Ahh well I was close.. ish.. ;D (It was very purple..)
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Post by: henryd on 18 November 2010, 16:21:31
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Yuk!

Let's try that again

(http://www.motorbase.com/uploads/2008/10/28/fs_1a.jpg)

Kevin

that looks epic :D :D :y
Title: Re: Lovely MG
Post by: 2woody on 19 November 2010, 08:32:53
maybe we could convince them to do a run and build ten !
Title: Re: Lovely MG
Post by: Kevin Wood on 19 November 2010, 09:06:40
Their web site doesn't imply that they aren't making them. I'm sure they just did a limited run of them though. :-/

http://www.westfield-sportscars.co.uk/XI.html

Oh, and I don't think the 1500 engine fits. A-series or bust.

Kevin
Title: Re: Lovely MG
Post by: 2woody on 19 November 2010, 11:16:38
got plenty of them, too
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Post by: aaronjb on 19 November 2010, 11:54:32
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Yuk!

Let's try that again

(http://www.motorbase.com/uploads/2008/10/28/fs_1a.jpg)

Kevin

that looks epic :D :D :y

Somehow 'epic' isn't a word I'd attach to something with an A-series engine, though.. but maybe that's just me being snobbish ;) (Plus my memory of the A-series is limited to the Austin Allegro ;D)
Title: Re: Lovely MG
Post by: Kevin Wood on 19 November 2010, 13:36:45
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Somehow 'epic' isn't a word I'd attach to something with an A-series engine, though.. but maybe that's just me being snobbish ;) (Plus my memory of the A-series is limited to the Austin Allegro ;D)

I haven't driven one but a neighbour of mine had one and he reckoned it was a total hoot. Modest power and modest levels of grip, admittedly, by the standards of modern sports cars, but it is very light and reasonably aerodynamic.

Best of all, the "limits" will be come across in reasonably low speed, low-risk conditions, and it's docile, so you can spend all your time steering it on the throttle rather than dreading the moment when it swaps ends on you. He's a serial car junkie and his previous car was a megabusa which was regularly tracked, so for him to love it speaks volumes, IMHO.

When the snow was too bad for me to drive at all last year I came across him driving his classic SAAB 99 with a grin like a cheshire cat. ;D

Kevin
Title: Re: Lovely MG
Post by: Andy B on 19 November 2010, 13:41:12
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Do you think this would be a good restoration project?

Bit of T- CUT perhaps and some new tyres...http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/MG-B-GT-GOLD-/150521235381?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item230bc3c7b5

If you could buy this too ..... clicky (http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=53.608727,-2.313373&spn=0,0.027831&t=h&z=16&layer=c&cbll=53.608795,-2.313478&panoid=84Dpb10-yIhtj921r8TkPw&cbp=12,81.71,,2,8.66)  ::) It's been sat there for the last 18 yrs that I know of, and is in very similar condition. It used to be sheeted up.
Title: Re: Lovely MG
Post by: aaronjb on 19 November 2010, 13:55:43
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Somehow 'epic' isn't a word I'd attach to something with an A-series engine, though.. but maybe that's just me being snobbish ;) (Plus my memory of the A-series is limited to the Austin Allegro ;D)

I haven't driven one but a neighbour of mine had one and he reckoned it was a total hoot. Modest power and modest levels of grip, admittedly, by the standards of modern sports cars, but it is very light and reasonably aerodynamic.

Best of all, the "limits" will be come across in reasonably low speed, low-risk conditions, and it's docile, so you can spend all your time steering it on the throttle rather than dreading the moment when it swaps ends on you. He's a serial car junkie and his previous car was a megabusa which was regularly tracked, so for him to love it speaks volumes, IMHO.

When the snow was too bad for me to drive at all last year I came across him driving his classic SAAB 99 with a grin like a cheshire cat. ;D

Kevin

Fair point - there is a lot to be said for reducing the levels of mechanical grip to the point that the 'fun factor' appears :)

Rather like the Caterham superlight in the wet a few weekends ago, at least based on the way it looked from behind ;D