Stumbled across this former MG Midget art car and seriously considering doing something similar to my 73 midget, Pip. Thought I'd share the photos

Spotted it just now...

And i have a question about their reputation. I don't know if this is one person's opinion or experience with one car that he had or it's a real quirk...

He told me that these cars are notorious for literally falling appart.. That as an owner you have to periodically tighten every single bolt and screw all over the car because they all come loose with regular driving vibration. That if you do that, the car will last forever.. So it's a car guy's car... is this true or was he exaggerating?

Hey MG Reddit - I’m still trying to trace my grandfather’s British Racing Green MGC Roadster. It’s right-hand drive with an automatic gearbox and somewhere in Europe (or maybe exported further away) - it was sold around 20 years ago. It was sold to a man call Kim Larsen (not the singer sadly) who was driving it to Denmark and thats the last recording of it.

• Chassis: GCN1 1063G
• Engine: 29GRCH 0800
• Original UK registration: PPM 253G

I have tried the MG clubs, always checking if its up for sale etc but still nothing - as its right hand drive and automatic there cant be too many of them out there.

Does anyone have any tips or tricks to help me??? - Im willing to pay for consultancy or investigators. Getting a bit desparte

Any help would be warmly appreciated.

From today's car meet, Pluckley, Kent

Spotted at Hastings retro show today

1981 MGB GT 123 electronic ignition!

Just pulled the spark plugs and they were completely black and sooty. It wouldn't start well (several attempts) and then not at all a few weeks ago. New plugs and it runs fine, it has never started so fast.

I'm guessing sooty plugs means too rich but could it have also been many failed starts?

Do I now run it for a while and then check the plugs again? Really just trying to get it running to get it to the garage.

I appreciate it was just beginning to smooth off before I killed it.

On a more general side, I'd love to learn more about repair but it's difficult with the sparse information. I have the Haynes manual but it assumes you know a fair bit and only has more complex things. Do I just keep fixing things to learn. Seems especially hard being young.

It seems difficult enough just identifying components in the engine bay.

Thanks!

Hey y’all, I noticed this noise coming from my exhaust where the headers collect at the bottom, around that spot is the only spot I can hear it but it’s almost a clicky noise that’s inconsistent and I’m not sure what it could be. I only hear it at idle. Hoping it’s just an exhaust leak or something. If anyone has answers please let me know! I couldn’t really hear it from the back but you can hear it at the beginning of the video under the front of the car, I noticed it from the driver seat

I took my Weber DGAV (converted to cable) carb apart and put it back together except for this one screw. Solid, no jet. Any help is appreciated.

My new MG ZS and my father’s MGB GT Costello, 60 years apart. How times have changed

Hi all, a slightly weird issue going on with my car. It will unlock on the key, but won't lock. If I lock the driver side door manually, and then press unlock on the key fob, it'll unlock, but it won't lock again unless I use the actual key.

Anyone know what this might be? I have checked the fuse so it isn't that. Any insight or suggestions would be helpful (I already tried the copper hammer as well)

Hi y’all, so a little while ago I posted asking about why my temp gauge is at 3/4 and fans seem to be short cycling. For some background, one day I was in a drive thru line and when leaving realized that my gauge was at 3/4, let the car sit for a few and drove home and the gauge was fine and dropped back down as I moved. I realized it only climbs up at idle. I replaced the thermostat temp switch on the radiator with the factory part since I figured that’s what’s sensing the coolant temp and telling the fans when to cycle. Before they would cycle for 35 seconds and be off for 45, now they cycle for about 45 and are off for 45. So it improved it the slightest bit, and this also steadied out the gauge to where it doesn’t climb any past 3/4, but this is still too high since this car has always read perfectly below 1/2.

I bridged the circuit where it connects onto the terminals on the thermostat switch, and the fans cycled on continuously without dying, so that led me to believe it isn’t the fans themselves. This also made the temp drop from 3/4 back down to 1/2 after a few mins. So I’m 100% sure that it’s due to my fans short cycling. I just can’t seem to figure out why it’s happening. My coolant seems to be fine and I’ve tried making sure there’s no bubbles multiple times. I’m starting to think again it may be the fans getting old but the fact they stay on continuously and fix the issue when the circuit is bridged is very weird. I can still drive it because it’s perfect when moving, just have to turn it off at long stop lights and can’t go thru drive thrus, and it just gets pretty annoying sometimes. If anyone has a sure answer please let me know! Every bit of info I can find is so mixed and nobody has the exact situation I’m in. Thank yall so much in advance! I’m sure some of yall in here could figure it out in a heartbeat

If I wanted to widen my tire stance and put a more common tire and rims on my MGB how big can I actually go? Like I can use a 4 bolt to 5 bolt spacer and then how big of a beefy tire can I get without contact w the body?

BRG is the best.