1970 MG BGT, 1798cc. Registration number PMA 629H. Chassis n...

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£2,750

1970 MG BGT, 1798cc. Registration number PMA 629H. Chassis number GHD5 196059 G. Engine number 18GG-WE-H 9805. Commission number G23D 021174 Z.
There is no paperwork with this vehicle, there is a photographic record of its restoration.
Outstandingly successful despite, or perhaps because of, its relative simplicity, the perennially popular MGB remained in production for 18 years while rivals came and went. Conceived in the late 1950s and launched in 1962, the MGB was mechanically similar to the preceding MGA, though with unitary-construction bodyshell instead of its forebear’s separate chassis. To compensate for the newcomer’s increased weight, the existing four-cylinder B-Series engine was stretched to 1,798cc while the MGB’s aerodynamically efficient lines made the most of the 95bhp available to achieve a top speed which just bested the magic ‘ton’. A ‘right first time’ design that changed little over the years, the MGB had enjoyed sales totaling in excess of 500,000 cars by the time production ceased in 1980.
PMA is an older restoration that appears to have been very well undertaken. It has been dry stored for many years with other cars from this deceased estate.