Welcome to the list John. A word of warning, these cars although grossly
overengineered, can show frame bends in surprising ways. Find out where the
damage came from and what was done to fix it. Check the door seams to see that
they are all even top to bottom and driver to passenger side. Look at the
front of the car where the fender bolts to the radiator support tray (next to
the headlights) and check that the fittings look the same on both sides of the
car and that they don't look tampered with.
My 71 does not show the dammage to the frame but once I added the thickness of
the paint, the front of the driver door scaped the paint off of the edge of the
fender, I also get a shimmy at speed that I beleive comes from the frame being
not straight. I owned the car when the damage happened and I know these things
developed afterwards. Since the car is a unibody car it will tend to tweak
things all over, so have a look around and look for signs that something may
have gotten bent where you don't expect it.
Of course, this is all IMHO and I have been known to be wrong before so I'll
shut up now.
--
James Nazarian
71 MGB roadster
71 MGBGT (the one that is supposed to be a v8)
01 Impreza 2.5RS
"Given a conflict, Murphy's law supercedes Newton's."
-Anon
"Nothing good has ever been reported about the full rotation
of a race car about either its pitch or roll axis."
-Carroll Smith
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 04:59:44PM -0800, John Wightman profoundly declared:
> Hi,
>
> I'm new to the list (be nice to me!), and am currently considering the
> purchase of a 1968 B-GT that has been totally stripped to bare metal. It's
> obviously a huge project, but while I'm new to MG's, I'm fairly experienced
> with other cars so I'm not daunted (yet!). At any rate, on to my question -
> the driver's side frame member has a fairly significant wrinkle in it where
> it curves down at the bottom of the firewall. The owner (who appears to be a
> trustworthy fellow) assures me that he has had the frame checked out and it
> is straight, however I'm still a little concerned. Does anyone have any
> experience with this sort of thing, and any advice on purchasing such a
> vehicle? FYI - the car is very reasonably priced, due to the number of
> panels that have dings. The dinged body panels don't worry me too much as I
> would replace/mend them as necessary.
>
> Thanks for any replies.
>
> John Wightman,
> Victoria BC
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