Originality is great but driving safely down the road is more
important. Bent and rusty is never as good, never as safe, and never
as nice to look at as new on shiny. The body shell for the MGB was
listed as an available part when the cars were new. The Heritage B
shells that are now being sold are produced from the same forms as
the original cars with all of the original care and craftsmanship and
although not in the original factory at least in the originating
country. How original can you get? And how many owners of rusty
TIGERS would turn down a brand new JAL shell fresh from a resurrected
Rootes/Jensen heritage organization that used original forms that had
been gathered up from scrap yards all over the country? And how many
of us are prepared to scrap a TIGER with a bent nose when a junked
Alpine would supply the sheet metal?
Anyway
Godspeed
JC
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