Category: ’67 MGB GT (Page 4 of 7)

I got the rain gutter trim on today, along with the vent windows. I’m pretty unimpressed with my work on the gutter trim, but it’s shiny and passes a “glance” test, though not a very close one. I think I will leave it for the time being and buy a set of new trim when they’re remanufactured again. Rear window trim is going to be the same story.

With a lot of help from Jim, I got the front and rear screens installed today, and he helped me bang the headlight ring around so it would fit on the passenger side.
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The headlights and other lights are on–even though I don’t yet have the lenses for the sidelights or taillights at hand. I cannot get passenger headlamp rim to seat, so I need to attend to that. I can’t imagine that the originals were so hard to fit, and, frustratingly, I did pay for the “good” reproductions. Maybe that was a mistake, I should have gone cheap!
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Dash top is now recovered and respectable. This wasn’t too bad a job: Remove crash rail, remove defroster vents, remove fiberboard top, remove old material from board (mine fell off from heat damage). Then use contact cement to glue new piece on in two stages (top first, then wrap “extra” around to back on windshield side). Glue strip of foam along windshield on underside, cut holes for vents. Put back in car, bolt vents in, contact-cement the remaining “extra” fabric along dash edge to dash, bolt crash rail back on. (Haven’t got to that last part yet.)

After yesterday’s ruinous attempt at polishing some of the aluminum trim (resulting in a decision to pay someone to do it), I got a few things done today. I got the hatch latching mechanism installed, as well as the support stays. Thankfully Jim has a ’69 parts car I was able to steal some hardware from, as this car had none of the special pieces needed for the stays.
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I got the rear bumper and a few other gubbons on the car today. The bumper doesn’t fit as well as I would hope, but my car did have a fender-bender on the driver’s side in the back at some point in its life. That’s the corner that is being recalcitrant, so it’s probably a mix of slightly wonky bumper and slightly wonky car. The owner is beyond slightly wonky, of course.
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Not much to report–I got the side moldings on, and they look pretty good. As I add pieces to the car I discover all of the places I missed while hand-buffing, so I get to do those, too.

Hope to fettle the front bumper mounting to get it a bit tidier, while adding the overriders back (I’ve decided to go with them) tomorrow, as well as installing the rear bumper. I also hope to get the dash top out (and recover it at home on Saturday). I’m planning on trying my hand installing the windshield on Sunday–the MGB GT windshield is supposed to be extra-fun to install, so I’m looking forward to that!

With or without overriders on the front bumper? Trying to decide, not that it’s a permanent decision.
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Just some Photoshop foolin’-around…but this is what I’m thinking of going with. I have roughly 24 MGB wire wheels, including a complete decent set of five in addition to the good ones on this car. I’d keep the standard silver wheels, but paint up a set dark red, which I think looks pretty sharp and will match the interior. (Click image to see the photo at a larger size.) Thoughts?
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Doors are on, hand buffing is about half done, car is on its own wheels again. Not much more to say other than hand-buffing an entire car would really, really suck.
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