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[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

.........1972 (K) reg MGB GT today at a local garage.   Looking very fetching in old english white, the sticker on the window read £3495.

Amazingly small by the standards of 2012......I reckon  the 3.5 V8 version would have gone like shit off a shovel.

Perhaps I'm going through a mid-life crisis.

[TheBoy]

Don't you mean old age

[omega3000]

What you need is a spin in one of these mr opti 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MGR-V8-4-0-ROADSTER-UK-SUPPLIED-/330739132603?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item4d0196a8bb

[waspy]

Don't they have a smell all of their own. I was looking around an old Triumph a few weeks ago & the smell was just sublime 

It reminded me of my old Rover P6's that I used to own

[waspy]

Don't you mean at my old age

Fixed that for you Jamie

[TheBoy]

Don't they have a smell all of their own.

Yes, wee wee.

[waspy]

Don't they have a smell all of their own.

Yes, wee wee.

Just PMSL (because of my age) 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Three things put me off an old M.G

1. Girlie image.
2. It shares an engine with a Morrris Marina 1.8 TC.
3. It handles like a dog on lino.

It was the chrome bumper model though.....

[albitz]

In 1979 I sold a 1968 MGBGT for £70. I felt like I had robbed the bloke at the time,but I wish I had the oldheap of sh1te now ££££.
A Morris Oxford in a gay coupe body.

[pscocoa]

I visited this place week before last in St Agnes- Tim Kelly had one up at £12500

Quite a collection of jobs/scrappers

http://home.btconnect.com/timkellymgcentre/tp_kelly_mg_centre_2_020.htm

[albitz]

If an MGB owner had time on their hands they could pull up a chair and literally watch it rust away before their eyes.
Mine had an alloy bonnet and a fibreglass airdam. Every other panel was as rotten as a pear.

[Olympia5776]

I had one in 1974 , a GT in aquamarine which was a pretty rare colour. I had it 9 months due to the crippling insurance which would be considered pennies today .
It was a "cool" car in it's day though and I still have some vivid memories from those nine months of ownership
One bad memory I have was being continually beaten away from traffic lights by Mk3 Cortinas  with the drivers kids waving at me from the back window.
It was a great long distance tourer though and took me on my early youthfull forays south of Hadrians wall several times , all very enjoyable .............
WHS 975K , I hope you're still out there .

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

If an MGB owner had time on their hands they could pull up a chair and literally watch it rust away before their eyes.
Mine had an alloy bonnet and a fibreglass airdam. Every other panel was as rotten as a pear.

How about the rare as hen's teeth MGC?.....3 litre straight six with 145 BHP. That agricultural lump was used in other cars too.......but I can't recall which ones.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

I had one in 1974 , a GT in aquamarine which was a pretty rare colour. I had it 9 months due to the crippling insurance which would be considered pennies today .
It was a "cool" car in it's day though and I still have some vivid memories from those nine months of ownership
One bad memory I have was being continually beaten away from traffic lights by Mk3 Cortinas  with the drivers kids waving at me from the back window.
It was a great long distance tourer though and took me on my early youthfull forays south of Hadrians wall several times , all very enjoyable .............
WHS 975K , I hope you're still out there .

Ah yes.....the Mk3. A good friend of mine owned a 2000 GXL. If memory serves it was  white with a BVR. Pretty swift it was too.

[dbug]

Guess we invented the V8 MGB - we fitted a Rover 3.5 V8 lump & gearbox into an MGB roadster in 1970 - went like stink.  Then a couple of years later BL started fitting the V8s into MGB GTs - don't think they ever factory fitted V8s into roadsters though.

The MGC was an absolute rsol of a motor - great heavy 3 litre staight 6 lorry engine fitted and with all that weight at the front tended to go straight on at corners.  Believe same lump fitted to Austin Healey 3000s.