Three Amigos - splitting up

So.. The Mini is actually up for sale on RR as the mgb is now wafting around in a soft and wallowy way, more suited to my wife despite her maintaining otherwise (she loves that mini) and my back isn't what it used to be. 

With her having MS a classic Mini was really proving a little too noisy and bouncy if we're honest.

Goodbye little friend




Hello mgb gt (we're not friends yet) 



Freezing my ass off covered in muck swapping in a good engine on my driveway seems to have paid off. The car pulls well and overdrive works, perhaps slightly sluggish to engage. 

Some rot to address, typically mgb. Offside dogleg exhibiting signs, as are top rear wing seams and very slight emergence on lower screen corners. However the sills appear good but time will tell. 

Its shiny though 😏

For peace of mind I'll be stripping the mgbs underside then applying either bilt hamber or perhaps lanoguard (anyone tried it?) for peace of mind.

Once the Mini has found a new loving home its time to give the Mr2 the attention it deserves since it the Bodywork is in great shape and can handle damp conditions. I'd like to keep the mgb as a fair weather car. 

Finally Mini Moo is off to a new loving home 😪

So the lineup of Amigos has changed to the original Eunos I bought off the forum for my parents in law, Muttley the mk2 Mr2 and our mgb gt the new amigo as yet still to earn his spurs to be accepted as a full time member of the group.

Jobs to do..

Eunos needs light rust treatment and a new hood for summer.



Mr2 needs an mot just brake discs to renew and then time to tart up the paintwork. Tom's upper rear wing and Airwalker sideskirts will be next.

I'm going to be busy with a scraper removing underseal and coatings from the mgb sills to sort through inevitable corrosion.

Wish me luck.

Aaargh!

Mini sale didn't work out. Oh well, can't be arsed to put her up for sale and we do love her 😕🤔🙂

Gearbox crunching changing down into 2nd so it's on it way out. Thought my days of engine swaps were behind me. Got an 1100 and box from an ad016 kicking about so that's a slow build up job.

I'll tool around in the mgb until someone gives me around 4.5k for it

Thanks James 👍 too many to keep on top of tbh.

I might pop the 3.76 diff in from the 850 although a 3.44 would be more like it

Nice 2 👍 not a standard MK2 colour ? or is it just the camera ? In your earlier pics it looks more like Teal (aka Turquoise Pearl - 746)

Leaking capacitors are becoming more common on MK2's, odd since that kind of failure is almost unknown in MK1's. Hopefully it will be repairable. 🤞

Bargain 😎 I take it leaking capacitors were the problem ?

So this happened. Having sold the black B The itch to own another never went away. This popped up at Mathewson's and I had to have it. It's a '58 with 58000 miles, useful upgrades like led lights, chuffed to bits with it so far.

The three amigos are no more, I'm down to two cars including this and the MR2. Never thought I'd say this but it's quite nice not having so many motors on the driveway - shock horror I'm thinking of actually moving to one car ?!

We've got a work van and and elsewhere in the family there's an mg tf we can borrow if we feel the urge for the top down on a sunny day.

Now the sensible thing to do would be to keep the brilliant MR2, however my wife is struggling to get in out of it and prefers the mgb, so the Toyota might well find a lucky buyer in the spring.

I'll probably really regret it.