Hey, the good news is you paid the right price. Expect to
rebuld/replace everything sooner or later. That's the way it is with
all of them, even when you pay two or three times what you paid.
Start buying books, they keep you going and hopefully keep you from
making too many mistakes. Haynes manual and Lindsay Porter's "MGB
Purchase and Restoration" or something close to that are the two to
start with. Go to http://motorbooks.com and do a search for "MGB".
Then get the Moss and Victoria British catalogs and start building a
spreadsheet, but don't do a total on it or you will scare yourself
silly.
Fix the running gear first so you can drive while you restore it, and
have fun, these cars will give you a lot of pleasure, but to be
affordable you are going to have to do a lot of your own work. They are
pretty simple and durable cars, and parts are cheaper and more widely
available now than when they were in production, albeit sometimes the
quality is not as good. That's why I collect parts cars.
--
Stuart MacMillan
Seattle
'84 Vanagon Westfalia w/2.1
'65 MGB (Driven since 1969)
'74 MGB GT (Restoring)
Assisting on Restoration:
'72 MGB GT (Daughter's)
'64 MGB (Son's)
Parts cars:
'68 & '73 MGB, '67 MGB GT
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