Does anyone know much about these on here?

I'm thinking of getting one
I know I'll probably have to do some work to it unless I pay decent money for one.

Is it hard to get parts for them?

 

they sound bonkers, rot like hell, handle badly and look ace.

 

Spiffing old chap.

Chock's away.

 

Obviously I'm expecting some silly replies

 

From what I've seen of them I agree with all that

 

What What.............

 

Flip fronted so everything is a doddle to do

 

I might even put that private plate on it ............. you coooont

 

Love them!

 

Get a GT6 instead.... Better looking and better engine, sound mint!

 

we look after a few at work (we look after alot of old shit ) lol but we dont realy get many problems with them we normaly get recamended for the older car due to my boss being an old git lol from what ive seen tho they dont go wrong probaly because the ones we look after do like 1000 miles a year and sit in garages for most of there lifes.. if you need to no any think let me no en ill ask him

 

but if you want to buy an old car i would say get an mgb gt.. why??............................... because i have one

 

I'll get a pic of one on my round (postman) it's so rotten you wouldn't be able to move it and keep it from breaking into 1,000 pieces lol

 

That'll be it's Merlin 1.5 12 cylinder engine

 

What kinda year you thinking of Short stuff?
Bit of luck you might not need a ladder to get in the thing

 

Tally Ho.

 

Thanks fo the info Clarke

Hello Big Cunt

Any year really mate, I'd like an earlier one though but I'm not too fussed mate. Do you know of one going?

 

 

well they do em in yellow AJ so thats a good start!!



jokes apart I helped my m8 restore a mk3 spitty in the middle 90's, there easy to work on, as long as you get a relatively rust free one you will be fine.
parts are very easy to get for most models apart from the mk1/2 as there is a huge network of specialist that remanufacture those all important parts unlike fords lol

steve

 

No, but I love em for the fact that they are a great feat of British engineering and intelligence, built and sold to compete against their own companies

What do they do proce wise nowadays, MGB's are daft money now.

 

I've seen them going from beween Ł700 - Ł5k!

I'm after a Ł700 one LMAO

Steve, you knw they look good in Yellow mate

 

Loads of specialist out there and parts too but really aquired taste in every way! A lot of people put bmw rear end into them and mgb's the handling is so much better for it. As long as main body and chassis largely rust free everything else is rebuildable quite cheaply. Depends where you rather spend your money on mint ones either rust or running gear as owners rarely fix both areas and prefer to polish it instead.

 

I think I'd be happier buying a clean one in need of some mechanical attention.

 

can you weld?if not time to learn fastshould be cheap ish ,old classic

 

Hi, I'v done shit loads of work on one, my mate bourgh one for his miss as a wedding present, got it with out a mot, so we put it though one and it came back with 6 pages of problems and faults, sorted all of them after a long time, its was ment to be the car she when to the wedding in, but she took it out for a lil driver once it had a mot, and she took it out and thought she'd see how fast it would go, and she blow it up, well snapped the crank!
so i rebuild the engine, but its again more problems since, and we've not touched it in over a year! It never made it to their wedding lol.
There a lil bit of a pain to work on, but not to bad, part from the bonnet, it will always be in your way! and the way the control are layed out are shit!I'm not a big lad and I really strugged to drive it, unless you got girls feet!
Best place for parts is Rimmer Brother in Lincoln.

 

Cheers for the reply
What's wrong with it now exactly? Ask your mate if he wants to sell it & drop me a pm if you dont mind