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MG MGB Technical - MG BGT rust.

I have owned my GT for nearly 20 years, and now it needs the body restoring. It needs the normal things like front wings and full sills. The part that is worrying me is at the top of the wing, just where it meets the front screen. on both sides this panel has rusted through. What repair is carried out here?
regards,
Gaz.
GazSuttonUK

Gaz, That would be a new wing, but they bolt on - not too bad a job. The rear ones are the real pain as they are part of the bodyshell.

Liam
Liam

Take it to Guy Eastwood at Drayton Basset, next door to Drayton Manor Park near Tamworth, he specialises in MG'S and is very reasonable and very good.
I think his mobile is 07721014097
Regards
Graham Cherry
G Cherry

The problem with GTs is that the panel at the base of the screen rusts though in the corners where it meets the wing, and that sounds like what Gaz has. Needs the screen removing, the rot cut, and new steel welded in. More difficult than wings, nowhere near as difficult as sills.
Paul Hunt 2

Paul, that's the place. No problem taking screen out, can you buy these panel's?
GazSuttonUK

Not heard of them, cut and shape from flat sheet. Shouldn't be too difficult, I did the double-curvature section on the outer and lower part of the wing round the headlight in two sections just using pliers and hammers.
Paul Hunt 2

This thread was discussed between 23/08/2006 and 25/08/2006

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