[Mgs] Now I'm in for it...

[Hans Duinhoven]

Nice project Max.

If you really like to know everything about the origins of your B, I'd
advise to get a BMIHT certificate.
It tells almost the date of production and will provide all specs the car
was equipped with when shipped from the factory.

Cheers
Hans
Still the same 71 BGT (24 years with me now...)


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Van: Mgs [mailto:mgs-bounces at autox.team.net] Namens Max Heim
Verzonden: zondag 14 september 2014 1:39
Aan: MG List
Onderwerp: Re: [Mgs] Now I'm in for it...

Correction:

I said "...29,000 roadsters [in 1967]..."  -- that's way off. I was going by
the VIN range, but that included GTs as well, and it turns out they
preallocated VINs in groups, so not all of those numbers were used. So there
were only just over 15,000 roadsters in 67, making it kind of a down year. I
suspect they shut down the line early to prep for the changeover to the Mark
II. That still puts this in the last month of production of Mark I models,
probably in the last 2 weeks (this would be October 1967).

Curiously, it doesn't have any sign of ever having had reverse lamps, which
supposedly were rolled into production in March 1967, some 15,000 VINs
earlier. I'm thinking "The Original MGB" must have its facts wrong in this
case.



on 9/13/14 12:40 PM, Max Heim at mvheim at sonic.net wrote:

> I just bought a rolling 67 MGB shell as a replacement for my trusty 
> but rusty 66 roadster. It's been in dry storage in a woodshop, 
> apparently -- it's full of sawdust but no rust on the bodywork. The 
> seller had got it in a package deal with a 65 runner that had rusted 
> out doglegs. He just wanted to flip the pair of them. He was eager to 
> move them since they filled his shop floor to the point of gridlock.
> 
> The plan is to finish stripping this shell and drop it at the paint 
> shop. It is missing a left front wing (which I have) and a front 
> valence. The only body damage I could discern was on the rear valence 
> near the right spring shackle -- it looks like it had fallen off the 
> jack onto a jackstand. After I got it home I would swap everything 
> over from the 66, including the entire suspension (mine has wire 
> wheels, this has steelies from some other marque with enormous tires 
> -- 195/70 and 185/70), the drivetrain obviously, and the decent 
> interior bits. This would leave me with enough parts to host my own 
> swap meet, though the 66 shell is probably too far gone to interest anyone
out here on the west coast.
> 
> The floors and boot are full of miscellaneous junk that needs to be 
> cleaned out, some of which constitutes actual parts (air cleaners, 
> door pulls, window winders). The seats are out of a 73 or so, but I 
> wasn't planning to use them -- pretty much everything would come out 
> of the 66 or new from Moss.
> 
> We did a little horsetrading -- he wanted to keep the windshield and 
> the Nardi steering wheel for the other car, but I got him to throw in 
> the fiberglass hardtop for $100. I actually hooked this onto my 66 and 
> drove home with it -- it's quieter and sturdier than my Snugtop, even 
> with the headliner falling out and no seals. This is one of those 
> rounded-looking ones with the wraparound rear window -- probably a 
> dealer option since it was painted body color (Old English White).
> 
> From the VIN, this was one of the last 500 67s off the line (out of 
> over
> 29,000 roadsters).
> 
> Oh, well, it will keep me off the streets, as they say...
> 

--

Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Menlo Park, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires
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