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35 Grand for a '67?
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bdperry Gold Member Brian Perry
Pearland / Houston, TX, USA   USA
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1980 MG MGB
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https://houston.craigslist.org/cto/d/friendswood-1967-mgb/7739927657.html

Certainly looks nice.

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Bankerdanny Daniel Palmer
Chicagoland, USA   USA
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1976 Honda MC CB750F
Beautiful color, nice wheels. Plenty of good upgrades. For that kind of money I would want a MUCH tidier looking engine bay and a nicer hood holding situation than a broom stick. I would probably have sprung for a professional detailing and photos too.

I won't criticize the price, we should stop running down our own cars. But if you want the top of the market for an MGB you need to put more effort into your ad than this person has.


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Rick Fawthrop Gold Member Richard Fawthrop
Langley, WA, USA   USA
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1960 Austin-Healey Bugeye Sprite
1974 MG MGB
1994 Mazda Miata
There are a couple of 67s in my area that are nice cars for 5k that need engine work.
That car would be difficult to sell in the Seattle area for over 18k.

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NOHOME P P
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Lots of people spend way more than that to restore an MGB. Paint job alone runs around $20k for most shop paint jobs. Add in a drive train overhaul, new interior and some trim-work and at a shop rate of around $100/hour its not hard to get to $50k for a nice restoration. Then you have to debug the build, cause that is a thing.


So as long as the car on offer is the right colour and in line with what you would have built, not only do you save $15k but you also save a few years of time. Plus you can sell for close to what you paid.

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riley1489 Gold Member Bruce H
Great White North, QC, Canada   CAN
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1959 Riley 1.5 "King George"
1973 MG MGB
I lke the sales pitch, "Has won lots of car show awards" . umm ...........

B


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DocDup1 Gold Member Richard Watson
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I have a 67 and I like to see prices for these cars going up. In this case, my question would be what has the seller been smoking? For 35K I want to see a really nice car with all of the details correct. Just the engine compartment and the rats nest of wiring would turn me off on this car.

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That "Modern wiring harness" looks like a rat's nest in the dirty and black painted engine compartment.


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Steven 67GT Steven Rechter
Jackson, CA, USA   USA
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That "custom" hood prop alone is worth the money.

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riley1489 Gold Member Bruce H
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In reply to # 4788442 by Steven 67GT That "custom" hood prop alone is worth the money.

The hideous bonnet badge only adds to the 'character' of that car.? grinning smiley

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Rick Fawthrop Gold Member Richard Fawthrop
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I looked on Craigslist and saw some MGBs I recognized.
A GT on there used to belong to an car show buddy. I helped him work on the car several times.
He sold it last year for 7k and now it is 15k.
I don’t think the value of the car doubled in a year. The car was parked outside most of its life and has patched up rust, worn door hinges, clunk in the differential.
But now it is a special garage Queen.
Another one jumped from 4K to 18k with a similar story.

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dr914 George Hussey
Marietta, GA, USA   USA
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yes nice 66 67 especially the GT are selling for that much. I do not, however, think that the blue one is in that higher category

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Soling2003 Gary M
Pahoa, HI, USA   USA
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And the front blinkers are illegal I would assume since they are clear. But I do hope that he gets it. Then I know mine is worth a hell of a lot more than I thought

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Arizona Shorty Greg McC
Prescott, AZ, USA   USA
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Maybe its a typo and they want $3,500.00?


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lgorg Larry Gorg
Renton, WA, USA   USA
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Gary,
All MK1 cars have clear lenses so they are not illegal.

I also agree with most of the comments about the engine bay. Ugly black paint just turns me off. A few things that I noticed that are out of place are the two cooling fans and the "modern wiring harness" going though the firewall plug instead of the normal routing through the firewall. Not sure what that thing is on the right hand shelf where the windshield washer bottle should be. Appears that the windshield washer was also upgraded to a later electronic pump version.

Quote: In reply to post #4788602 by Soling2003

And the front blinkers are illegal I would assume since they are clear. But I do hope that he gets it. Then I know mine is worth a hell of a lot more than I thought

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