My mg restoration, MG BGT , Glasgow

[mgbglasgow]

Hi all,

Smack in the middle of restoring my MG BGT, if anyone has any pointers/pitfalls on what im doing/ about to do, let me know!

im on www.mgb-glasgow.blogspot.com if you want to see what im up to.

If any others are thinking/doing or not doing (as my case was for a long time there) get in touch. Happy to help out with any one elses problems too (car issues only really!)

Long live old cars!

Steve

Edited by mgbglasgow on Tuesday 11th January 20:20

[Spitfire2]

I'm liking those dolly's you made Steve - good effort.

Now where can I get me some trolley wheels like that .......

[alfa pint]

Hi Steve - I'm just up the road in Helensburgh if you ever need a spare hand.

[mgbglasgow]

cheers,

will be welding the rear quarters in this weekend, but will be needing help when im getting near thened/ or start getting fed up with it...

what you driving alfa pint?

[alfa pint]

Inca yellow 79 B roadster (and an equally yellow 99 Alfa Spider, hence profile name). Had a chartreuse 77 yellow B roadster for 10 years too.

No probs - just ph me whenever you need a hand and if I'm around, glad to help out.

[mgbglasgow]

cheers alfa pint,

hello spitfire, what you driving?

Steve

[Kentish]

alfa pint said:

Inca yellow 79 B roadster (and an equally yellow 99 Alfa Spider, hence profile name). Had a chartreuse 77 yellow B roadster for 10 years too.

No probs - just ph me whenever you need a hand and if I'm around, glad to help out.

I had a Zoe Yellow Spider, a 1999 Lusso with bluie hood and blue momo leather - looked just like yours.

Mileage was quite low (in the 40k's) when I sold it, wonder whether it could be the same one?

I have a 1969 MGB GT I'm currently restoring too btw.

I must update my Project MGB thread!

[alfa pint]

Ah, my spider has a black leather interior. Although I did like the look of the blue. (would have really really wanted a rosso red one with a tan interior, but couldn't find a good one) It's a 99 T reg from London originally, bought it off a bloke near Woking who'd just bought a Carrera 2 convertible.

The B was my late father's, who bought it in 1986. I ended up with my first B when I had about £5k to splash out on a classic convertible and couldn't afford a decent TR4 or Spider and couldn't think of anything better that was semi-practical and still reasonably fun. I just need to get my dad's car up to the same suspension set up as mine now!

[pilbeam_mp62]

Hey Steve, I just wanted to say best of luck with your restoration - I have looked at the pictures and descriptions on your blog and it looks to me like you are doing a good job.

I am on the South coast, so too far away to help you ! I have an MGC-GT - I will be following your work with interest.
Regards

[mgbglasgow]

Cheers, its hard staying on top of it,

next thing is welding up the quarter panel at the rear, then let in the repairs to the front spring hangers. I want to bulid a tilter to sort the rest out underneath,

cheers for support all!


Steve

[mgtony]

Hi Steve,
If you're thinking of building a stand to rotate the whole body, I thought these links might give you a few ideas:

http://www.mgexperience.net/phorum/read.php?1,1616...

http://www.mgexperience.net/phorum/read.php?1,1519...

Just make sure this doesn't happen; (Scroll down for the pics of the stand)

http://www.mgexperience.net/phorum/read.php?40,161...

Tony

[mgbglasgow]

cheers, had a look, all very sturdy. my plan is to just make a tipper assy to allow me to put the car at 90 degrees, and weld from there. cheers for the links, the guy that widened the mg has done some serious modding there!

Always thout a stretched MG would look good, decent seats at rear would be a real bonus,,