Barrie -- FYI: look at the date stamp on your message:
on 1/31/03 3:02 PM, Barrie Robinson at barrier@bconnex.net wrote:
> I was going for a new Heritage shell but the delivery was something like 12
> months (but this is a few years ago) I decided to have dipped a 1970 MGB
> GT shell I had bought as "good". The chap who was doing the work for me
> called and said the body was dipped and he had one word for it -
> "DISASTER". So I had a real top notch body man "do it". It needed new
> floors, boot floor, one full rear quarter. one half rear quarter, door
> skins, new dog legs and sills, repairs to tunnel, bulkhead, bonnet, engine
> bay (to fit a Rover 3.5l), headlight holes fixed - a new wing(fender) had
> a different shape (correct) to existing (bodged). When finished it was
> better than new and you could not see where the repairs were done. Doors,
> rear tailgate, and bonnet fitted perfectly. Total cost of body repairs
> including panels was close to Cdn$6K. My estimate of the Heritage shell
> was Cdn$10,000 before I got it shipped !!!
Cheers,
Max
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