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Re: rebuild or part out?

To: MG List <mgs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: rebuild or part out?
From: Max Heim <max_heim@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 12:02:46 -0800
Man, that sounds like just what I need. My problem is I have no place to put
it. Hmm, perhaps some scheme wil present itself...

--

Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires
(parked on dirt under the acacia tree)


on 3/17/06 11:42 AM, Dodd, Kelvin at doddk@mossmotors.com wrote:

> 
> In the British Car Classified section of the Valley British Auto Club
> Newsletter that arrived in my mailbox today.
> 
> 
> 1967 MGB  All apart, garaged for 10+ years. Wheels on body, rest in
> boxes. Restorable.  Don't think husband is ever going to get around to
> it!  $500/OBO.  Call Dennis or Lindsey Martin  559-222-3014
> 
> The car is probably in the central California area and so relatively
> rust free.  
> 
> 
> They are out there,  you just have to keep looking.
> 
> 
> Kelvin.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-mgs@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-mgs@autox.team.net] On
> Behalf Of Max Heim
> Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 11:06 AM
> To: MG List
> Subject: Re: rebuild or part out?
> 
> on 3/17/06 4:40 AM, Dan DiBiase at d_dibiase@yahoo.com wrote:
> 
>>   As far as reshelling, you may be better off locating a new shell
> from the
>> south or west, where it is dryer.
>>   
> 
> Yeah, if you can find one. I have an automated eBay search for chrome
> bumper
> MGB body shells, and only one has come up in the last year. I don't
> think it
> was a Mk. I either. My impression is that the supply of 62-67 MGBs is
> drying
> up -- you occasionally find restored examples for sale, but "cheap
> drivers"
> are non-existant, and viable projects are extremely rare. Now and then a
> hideous rust pig is offered at a ridiculous price.




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