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MGB-GT MGB GT Roof Transplant?

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MGBGT_noob

MGBGT_noob

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Has anyone ever attempted to transplant the roof from one GT to another?

I have the opportunity to get a second '74 GT body for free. However, a PO has cannibalized the roof from this car.

I can take the roof from Igor, and fix all the rusty bits, and hopefully splice it onto the new body (which I've named "old Baldy"). This makes more sense than it sounds, because Baldy's body has 99 44/100% less rust than Igor.

When they cut the roof off Baldy, they left the windshield (pardon me, "windscreen") frame complete. I got a suggestion to cut the A pillars, near the top corners of the windscreen, and weld it together there.

The big problem comes at the back. They cut the C pillars perpendicular to the slope of the back of the car, starting at the "point" of the quarter windows. That leaves very little of the C pillars attached to the quarter panels.

Also, Igor has quite a bit of rust, at the bottom of the C pillars. That means we'll need to fab up patches, when we connect Igor's roof onto Baldy.

Does anyone have any advise, about potential pitfalls we might encounter, with this operation?
 
Too bad you were not closer. You could have this rust free one here real cheap.
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vping said:
Too bad you were not closer. You could have this rust free one here real cheap.
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Cool...an MG Midget/GT!!!!!!!
 
There gotta be someone out there that wants this. No reasonable offer refused /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif
 
My take is that you would be completely out of your mind to do this. Wouldn't it be a lot easier to scour junkyards for a whole GT non-runner? I'm sure you could dig one up for no more than a couple of hundred bucks. Compare that to the vast amounts of labor time, window alignment problems, structural integrity issues and more, only to end up with a totally non-original bodyshell. That way you could spend your precious time restoring the rest of the car and working towards something that would have some value when you got done.
 
davester said:
Wouldn't it be a lot easier to scour junkyards for a whole GT non-runner? I'm sure you could dig one up for no more than a couple of hundred bucks.
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Yes, I like to call that "Plan A".

Unfortunately, GTs are kinda hard to come by, here in the Dallas area.
 
vping said:
Too bad you were not closer. You could have this rust free one here real cheap.
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Well, shoot.

That's exactly what I need. How much do you think it would cost to ship that to Texas?
 
If you can figure that out be my guest. It's actually in really good shape. If you need other pics let me know and I'll snap them for you.
 
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