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With a heavy heart, I am offering my much-loved MGB for sale.
Known affectionately as Beryl, I definitely did not turn into a walking cliché by a red sports car on the day I turned 50....
Registered in March 1970, in Solihull I believe, the car has had at least a couple of owners in the local area Warwickshire and Worcestershire area. However, it then turned up in deepest, darkest Cornwall before I repatriated it back to the Midlands. The chap I got it from had bought it with the proceeds of an inheritance from an elderly neighbour they'd looked after in her twilight years, and they named the car after her.
I've covered around 1000 miles in the car quite happily, and it blats along at 65 or so quite happily. The overdrive works fine, which helps make things a bit more pleasant at that sort of speed, because it's a bit rev-happy in direct top. The steering is nice and light, as well as direct, and the clutch and gearbox work nicely.
I put a new exhaust on the car just after I got it, as the old one was rotten as a pear.
Currently showing 49, 200 miles on the clock, although it's been round the clock at least once I'd have thought. The previous owner had the engine rebuilt, and the details are in the file.
While the car polishes up well, and drives well enough, it's probably best described as an up and running project car. Personally, I don't like perfect cars because then you can't use them, whereas if this one gets a new battle scar then so be it. That said, whilst it's perfectly useable and solid where it needs to be, and drives well, there are some areas of paint that are mis-matched and the driver's seat bolster has collapsed. This doesn't bother me, because I'm tall and generously padded, but my wife has to sit on a cushion to see over the steering wheel.
I have got a set of cloth seats from a later model which I was going to put in while the originals were refurbished, but I haven't got round to it. These, as well as some other spares, are available by separate negotiation.
Obviously the car is tax and MOT exempt, as well as ULEZ compliant.
The car can be put on a two-post lift to help inspect the underside, though.
Only selling because I have several other, arguably rarer, classics that also need attention, and my work situation has changed recently too.
Better images to follow as soon as I can take some.
