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MGC MGC-GT tub in Seattle

RickB

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I went to British Auto Wrecking in West Seattle yesterday.
I wanted a heater duct they had for my Midget.

I mentioned I have this MGC project and the guy took me up to the yard and showed me a 69 MGC GT tub.
No running gear, no axles, hubs or wheels and as it sat no front fenders.
Just a tub.

He said he would work up a package deal with two good front fenders and call me within a week.
I'm sure they will want too much, the guy has a NOS Midget grill up on the wall - the black one with the chrome trim in the center - with a $300 price tag. I mentioned the same one is available on Ebay for $150 brand new old stock in the box.

At least he knows he's dealing with someone who knows "something".

This tub isn't "pristine" but it's one heck of a lot closer to me than New Mexico. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif

It has rusty but solid floors, the inner fenders are solid & undamaged, the rockers are solid and not rusted and the rear wheel wells have surface rust but are solid. There's surface rust just about everywhere but I couldn't see cancer anywhere. He has to pull all the stuff out and properly examine it.

It's got a few hundred pounds of "parts" inside, some MGC & some other. There was a Triumph bumper in there.
He said whatever MGC stuff was in there would come with the deal.

If I went this way at least I'd have a cancer free shell to start with, it would be sad to part with old #7651 but she would have to become a donor.

I've got to ask these guys if they deliver /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif

Now - where do I find plans to build an MG rotisserie? It would make it so much easier to work on this thing /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif
 
Is the one in New Mexico even available?

Rotisserie is easy: 2 engine stands with something on them (piece of metal, 2x4) to bolt to the front & rear bumper mounts connected together with a square tube of steel.
 
Thanks Tony,

I've been looking at them on Ebay & at this site:
https://www.autobody101.com

Your idea sounds practical.

I'm not sure what you mean by "connected together with a square tube of steel" - would that be: "the two engine stands connected together with a square tube of steel"?
 
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Yep!
 
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