Rich
Club Retro Rides Member
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Club RR Member Number: 160
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MGB's as Dailys ???Rich
@foxmcintyre
Club Retro Rides Member 160
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May 10, 2012 20:10:26 GMT
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At £500 it will be in a bucket! Unless you get exceptionally lucky you're not going to get anything with an MOT thats going to keep going at that money without spending a lot of time and effort on it Me and mrs Rich bought a 73 Chrome bumper for £550 out of a woman's garage where it had sat for 4 years and it needed, after an oil change, points setup, new brake pads and a whack on the fuel pump, little more for the MoT than tightening a loose wheel, and aligning the headlamps. It even had an LE front spoiler and wire wheels, brand new overdrive, fuel tank, distributor and speedo. It looked a little rough as the paint was a bit manky but its solid and pretty reliable. Its always got us home, even when the coil was breaking down. You can get lucky, you just gotta look, not all £500 cars are gonna be rotters, but there are a more choddy ones than nice ones sadly. Other than that, nothing to add from what people have said.
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PHUQ
Part of things
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May 10, 2012 20:21:14 GMT
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The black one went for just under £600... about £10 more than my max bid in fact. Harrumph! I wanted it as a breaker though.
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Seth
South East
MorrisOxford TriumphMirald HillmanMinx BorgwardIsabellaCombi
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May 10, 2012 20:22:32 GMT
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You can get lucky, you just gotta look, not all £500 cars are gonna be rotters, but there are a more choddy ones than nice ones sadly. Agreed. We got lucky with ours too considering it only had hundreds of miles on it following a completer restoration some years before. The handy thing about MGBs is that there are so many out there you shouldn't ever feel pressured to buy the first one you look at as another one will be along soon.
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Follow your dreams or you might as well be a vegetable.
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tome30
Posted a lot
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By this stage of the thread I was really expecting to have been put off the stupid idea of wanting to yet again, get rid of a perfectly good motor for an older, slower, smellier one. All that has happened is my 'want' has increased.
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