9th Oct, 2024 13:00

Imperial War Museum | Duxford, Cambridgeshire

 
Lot 137
 

1971 MG B Roadster

Sold for £9,562

(including buyers premium)


Lot details

Registration No: GPH 902K
Chassis No: GHN5252086G
MOT: Exempt

  • Extensive restoration works completed by Maidstone Sports Cars in 2007
  • Benefits from an unleaded Ivor Seale engine and fitted with overdrive from new
  • Supplied new by Wadham Stringer Limited of Guildford
  • Accompanied by a large history file dating back to the 1990s which includes a BMIHT Certificate
  • Ready to be used and enjoyed!

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.

Despatched new on the 30th June 1971, ‘GPH 902K’ was supplied via Wadham Stringer Limited of Guildford. Specified from new with overdrive, a heater, a tonneau cover, and seatbelts, the MG was provided extensive restoration works by Maidstone Sports Cars in 2007. The work comprised of fitting an unleaded Ivor Seale balanced engine with a new water pump and oil cooler; an overhauled gearbox and overdrive unit; repainting; new chrome wire wheels; renewed front wheel hubs and new rear hubs; electronic ignition; and further enhancements, with the invoices on file from Maidstone Sports Cars (for 2007) surpassing £7,500 alone.

The improvements have not stopped there however, with ‘GPH 902K’ benefitting from a new mohair hood in 2015 (supplied by MGOC Spares), further repainting by Sussex Coachworks also in 2015 (images on file), new door cards and fittings in 2017 and overhauled rear wheel hubs in 2019. Having now covered some 14,000 miles since the restoration works in 2007, the Roadster boasts a large history file containing BMIHT Heritage Certificate, a vast collection of invoices back to the 1990s, numerous past MOTs, images of the recent paintwork and the V5C. Benefitting from a recent full service, fluid change and a new hood cover, the vendor informs that the B drives ‘very well’ and is ready to be used and enjoyed by a new owner!

For more information, please contact:
Paul Cheetham
paul.cheetham@handh.co.uk
07538 667452

 

Auction: Imperial War Museum | Duxford, Cambridgeshire, 9th Oct, 2024

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