No telling how many hands have been into these things by now. The current MG here has evidence there was some other engine in it, no way to know what that may have been. Odd holes drilled in the chassis and "panel modifications" as indicators, ie: left side footwell hammer-bludgeoned inward, probably to accommodate an overly-wider tranny. Hole in the lower front panel, cut with a chisel (!), most likely. When we got it there had been a "resoration" back to MGB spec's, done by an outfit in Chicago called Sonehenge MG. The engine was a proper 1800 but the number tag was missing, probably boiled off in a rebuild. But it turned out to be a five-main block (that one now holds up my garage CAB fridge). Diff had been swapped out and it has a later, "three-quarter-floating" type now. And the body was painted "Refrigerator White". A real hodgepodge of a car!