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Pavilion Gardens | Buxton, Derbyshire
Viewing: Tues 20th May from 12pm
Auction: Wed 21st May from 9am
Location: St John's Rd, Buxton SK17 6BE
1972 MG B Roadster
Estimate
£11, 000 - £13, 000
Registration No: GFW 946K
Chassis No: GHN5UC288827G
MOT: Exempt
Current ownership since 2002
LHD export example, repatriated in the '90s and converted to RHD
Subject to an extensive photographic restoration in the late '90s
Original service to passport and handbook
Large collection of invoices, workshop manual and current V5C document
Introduced in 1962, the MGB Roadster enjoyed an eighteen-year production run. With nicely balanced handling and a good turn of speed, it merited the old MG marketing slogan 'Safety Fast'. Based around a monocoque chassis featuring independent coil-sprung front suspension and a leaf-sprung 'live' rear axle, its 1798cc 'B' series four-cylinder engine was allied to a four-speed manual transmission. Capable of over 100mph, the provision of front disc brakes and rack-and-pinion steering greatly aided control.
Pleasingly retaining its original ‘Passport to Service’ and handbook, chassis GHN5UC288827G was supplied new via Overseas Motors of Dallas, Texas. Repatriated by its only other UK keeper - a retired RAF fighter pilot - during the late 1990s, he had the MG converted to right-hand drive as part of a professional restoration (assorted photographs of which remain on file). Finished in the striking combination of Midnight Red Pearlescent with Beige leather upholstery and matching carpets, the B also sports a wooden dashboard / door cappings and alloy rocker cover. Entering the current ownership some twenty-three years ago, the two-seater was reportedly last treated to a full service on 29th April 2024 by the seller’s ‘usual, top notch, local independent garage’. Still highly presentable, ‘GFW 946K’ is said to have been ‘corrosion checked and retreated with 3M's Shultz corrosion proofing on the underbody’ during the vendor’s tenure. Offered for sale with a large collection of invoices, workshop manual and current V5C Registration Document.
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