Hello all,
My name is Eloy, 25 YO from the Netherlands. After having some cars and a motorcycle(EK4-E30-CBR600rr) I wanted to venture into the world of oldtimers.
This year my dad and I finished a 2/3 year Lancia beta coupe project, this was his personal favorite car as he had one when he was about 22. We did the majority of the tasks ourselves from welding to bondo-ing and what not, this gave me the oldtimer goosebumps I guess
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I looked a long time on the internet for cars that I really liked, I doubted between a BMW 1602 or an MGB. I wanted a oldtimer coupe with RWD and a more spartan drive feeling, but a car that can use some 21st century upgrades to make it more fun.
So a week ago I sold my E30 and went looking for an MGB GT, after looking at some cars we came across a car that I bought and will pick up tomorrow.
it's a white MGB gt from 1973 fitted with a 4 speed manual with overdrive, it's an original dutch car
the previous owner had the car since 1986 and has kept the car is a good shape technically.
The downside is that the exterior is a bit "scruffy" paint shows some blitsers at several places(different colours of white), and they sticked some horrendous stickers on the car. as far as I can see the car has not a lot of structural rust, there are some welded patches but these still need to be covered with bondo and get painted.
My goal with the car was to have a rolling project as I am still a student, i'm quite handy with the exterior work and my dad can help every once in a while with technical things. but I want to do as much myself that's why I signed up here and bought the Heynes manual
.
Tomorrow is the big day, I'm going to pick the car up and give it a thorough clean
here are some pictures of the new gorgeous.
My name is Eloy, 25 YO from the Netherlands. After having some cars and a motorcycle(EK4-E30-CBR600rr) I wanted to venture into the world of oldtimers.
This year my dad and I finished a 2/3 year Lancia beta coupe project, this was his personal favorite car as he had one when he was about 22. We did the majority of the tasks ourselves from welding to bondo-ing and what not, this gave me the oldtimer goosebumps I guess
.I looked a long time on the internet for cars that I really liked, I doubted between a BMW 1602 or an MGB. I wanted a oldtimer coupe with RWD and a more spartan drive feeling, but a car that can use some 21st century upgrades to make it more fun.
So a week ago I sold my E30 and went looking for an MGB GT, after looking at some cars we came across a car that I bought and will pick up tomorrow.
it's a white MGB gt from 1973 fitted with a 4 speed manual with overdrive, it's an original dutch car
the previous owner had the car since 1986 and has kept the car is a good shape technically. The downside is that the exterior is a bit "scruffy" paint shows some blitsers at several places(different colours of white), and they sticked some horrendous stickers on the car. as far as I can see the car has not a lot of structural rust, there are some welded patches but these still need to be covered with bondo and get painted.
My goal with the car was to have a rolling project as I am still a student, i'm quite handy with the exterior work and my dad can help every once in a while with technical things. but I want to do as much myself that's why I signed up here and bought the Heynes manual
.Tomorrow is the big day, I'm going to pick the car up and give it a thorough clean
here are some pictures of the new gorgeous.
