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Re: Time-capsule MGB

To: mgs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Time-capsule MGB
From: Rick Brown <brown409@home.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 08:21:05 -0500
There sure are - two or three yrs ago a buddy of mine found a 67 BGT in a barn -
paid $200 for it - after we pulled it out and got it to his house it was on the
road within two weeks!  Car is rust free and in original paint.

Rick

mga wrote:

> I was just getting new tires put on my Mazda truck when I noticed a '71 MGB
> roadster at a shop nearby.  Looking again, I saw a bunch of Minis as well.
> The shop is a restoration/sales store for Minis in Santa Rosa CA.  After
> speaking to the owner of the MGB I learned that he had recently purchased
> it.  It's a '71 with only 31k miles and had been sitting in the prior
> owner's garage for 20 years due to a stuck smog pump.  The new owner said he
> had to go thru the engine as it was siezed and redo the hydraulics.  The car
> looked very nice and he said he paid $500 for it!
>
> I guess there must still some old MG's and similar sports cars sitting in
> garages that haven't been discovered yet!
>
> Don Scott
>
> '62 MGA roadster
> '80 TR8 roadster
> '73 MGB GT

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