Journal of Scarlet the 1972 MGB Roadster

Well there was a little time to look at this as I was off work a little early and had done my chores of mowing the lawn since we’ll be off the KC for the All British Car & Cycle show up there this weekend. My initial thought to just […]

So very little time for work tonight so I decided I’d remove the front bumper and try and put the re-chromed bumper and over-riders on. I got on quite well but one of the new over-riders has the bolt chromed into it and it’s a bit shorter than those that […]

So tonight was the night – time to tackle the dash wiring and dash reinstall. I’ve got to say that I really wasn’t looking forward to this. Despite the helpful advice received from the MG Experience forum on the “best approach” there’s something about this part that just bothered me. […]

So just some action tonight as I ended up in search of bulbs and screws/nuts for the rear license plate lamps. I wanted new screws because the originals were rusty and didn’t look good to go with the re-chromed bumpers and over-riders and new over rider rubber inserts. Bulbs & […]

– 2006-08-27 So not as much to report for this weekend as I might have hoped really but we had a good rally today. Keep moving the small stuff along and have run into a glitch with the larger dash gauges bulbs – most annoying (see this post on MG […]

– 2006-08-24 Just a lot of small stuff tonight but still some progress. My stuff from Chris Roop also arrived today so that provided some more options. So, I finished off the driver door handle and with the grommet set got that working and bolted back up. Works pretty well […]

– 2006-08-23 So, some small activity updates. Monday night we got the VIN plate onto the inside door area and determined the dash VIN plate will have to be bolted as the pop rivet wasn’t going to fit with the windshield in place. Also figured out that we couldn’t rivet […]

So, here’s another little catch up – not much activity while I await the vent tubes that I have since ordered from Tony (autoist) to arrive. Until we have that resolved there’s no way to put the dash back. Carbs & Filters Today I put on the swanky new K&N […]

Well not overly active recently but I have played with testing the lights tonight and found one of the rear side markers causing an issue. All the rear lights would go out when I turned the light switch to bring on the headlamps. Just seems to be a loose bulb […]

So, it seems I have missed a couple of nights of reports. Exhaust Wednesday, I went 12 rounds with the exhaust fittings as I had a new mid section hanging bracket to install (just by the wheel arch). It looked as though the VB part I got wasn’t quite put […]