Max Heim <max_heim@sbcglobal.net> wrote: 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.
So I wouldn't be too quick to write off Peter's car. As I said, in many ways
it sounds like a better candidate than my still-driving example.
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Ha, having said that, an early B turned up on eBay this morning.
The body looks pretty straight, Max. Although you'd think he could move the
car AWAY from those stains on the road! I mean, we all know where they came
from!!
Dan D
The Garden State
'76 MGB Tourer - Driver - "On the Road Again....!"
'65 MGB Tourer Project - Yep, still is....
'04 Audi A4 1.8T q MT-6 - quattro, baby!
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