MG MGB and MGB GT Tech Talk
and look what I found!
'60 Austin Healy 3k that has been lurking in my garage
dad hasn't worked on it in 12 years
interior not finished
drivers door never realigned/shut right after body shop, missing bolt on front control arm, other stuff, rubber stuff prolly shot
my dad needs to take a few month break from work and get this pimpmobile mobile!
Wow, beautiful car! I would offer to finish it for him - for a small price, the car!
Dan D
That car's a mess. What a nightmare. I'll do you a favor and take it off your hands, cheap. Free up some room in the garage. Just as a favor to a fellow MGer, you understand.
You'll never get to drive that and your B at the same time. Plus, it looks like you barely have the room for it in the garage. Tell you what, since your sucha nice guy I'll agree to finish it, drive it for you, garage it, and wash it every week. Just mail me the title, and I'll take all those burdens off your shoulders.
I'm going to go out and look in my garage and see if I can find something like that.....................
That would be too much trouble for you Wray, due to distance. However, I'm close and could do it instead.
And John, if your Dad wants to trade that car for a couple Bs, let me know.
Chris, you know what a generous guy I am. You have so much to do, what with all your MG stuff and ranch things, your business, and so on. There's no reason for you to have to stop what you're doing. I don't mind helping John out. Distance is not a factor.
Can't help it, when folks need help getting rid of burdensome cars, I'm happy to assist. I just gotta be me.
I already did - I found a nice MGB, a bunch of boxes (we are moving a week from tomorrow) and a 1980 Yamaha Virago 750 in much need of some TLC, but now A-H's. Perhaps my garage is defective!
Did you really not know about this car? Hope you get to drive it a lot!
It's not often you open a box to find a gem of a car and a gold mine inside.
That's odd, Eric. I found two of them in my garage. Maybe I got yours? AL Bradley
I've sat in it once for a drive in the cul-de-sac in our old house in Englewood Colorado, probably '91. Never been driven since (maybe onto a trailer), or worked on besides building of the cat-block (plywood house). Sadly, that’s the only thing I remember about it from Colorado, my Dad doesn’t even remember us driving it.
My dad bought it in college and had it ever since, started restoration early-mid 80s
7/88
David; yes I did know it was in there, but hadn't seen it in its full 95% glory since I was a kid.
(no camera manners yet! im like 4)
I think I'm blasting my face
I was the overseeer
'90
lot more 'stuff'
'92
To Oregon!
Pa unveiled it for a little Classic Car Show in our driveway a few weeks back, and some fellow Power Squadron guys brought their cars over, one guy brought two beautiful Packards that were neat..
3 car garage: MGB, AH3000, 18' jetboat, bandsaw, lathe, drillpress, table saw, jigsaw, belt sander, full freezer of fish, two walls of shelves etc, ceiling is strapped with hardwoods [minor earthquake dropped a 15" chunk of walnut onto my DS fender! =( lil dentage]
A lot of crap, so little time
My B sometime between 88-92, pre rust! Washington plates shows what it had coming tho. On its 2nd owner, my Dad's sister. His other two sisters own/have owned Midgets. The one in Atlanta still has hers, burried in their garage
I love it too, even its Maco paintjob is cherry! =D been in a damned box
AFAIK, nothings wrong with it! hehe, well I couldn't get it into gear. Complete interior install, replace missing supsension bolt, if any stale gas, remove, check brakes etc
I know it can't be more than a few weekends of work to get it driveable, sans the malaligning door... but it stays shut with a bungee cord =D but my dad's weak sauce
its all natural rubber hoses and whatnot, apparently that stuff rots away, couldnt be that hard to renew em all
Those photos are priceless. Don't ever let 'em get away from you....
They are priceless!! I would treasure them if I was you John!!
no sir, I tresure them as much as the rest of my goofy kid pictures. Shorts and button up shirt and saddle shoes reaching to touch a hot BBQ, naked wearing mardi gras beads, gigantic pioneer headphones on 3yo head, pimpin in a full-on multicolored addidas sweatsuit w/ flimsy tennis hat turned sideways (baby photo in senior yearbook), dressed up and hair fixed some weird way that I looked like kid hitler w/o mustashe.. seriously freaky
apparently the body doesn't let the doors in well because the frame sat for about 2-3 years w/o an engine, no brace in the door frames, got banana body! my inexperience tells me a body jack in each door frame will spread em enough to let the doors in, dad thinks few gs at a reputable AH bodyshop (not in oregon) to get it straightened out again
Great pictures! Thanks for sharing them. A beautiful car indead. It deserves to be finished and on the road
