November 2019
The body damage has been repaired.
Metal replaced and the roof de-rusted,
neutralized and painted with a few coats
of stone guard protection over the paint,
before the fibre-glass headlining was
fitted.”
an extent that the damaged section was
simply cut out. The biggest hole was
about the size of an ‘Aussie’ 20 cent
coin, (29 mm).
The Factory simply bogged up the dam-
age and the shell was painted. My re-
tired paint & panel man who looked af-
ter my car from new, never knew this
damage was there but did comment that
a few B-GT’s they’d restored had similar
shell damage once the shell was
stripped. Good old BMC Quality Control
at work - just hide it. Fill it up and paint
it, no one will ever know.
Yes, the late 1960s and ‘70s were inter-
esting times in the British automotive
industry.
I guess that’s why they
enlisted Maggie Thatcher in 1979 to
sort it all out.
Remember ladies and gentlemen keep
‘em tuned,
Rich
Inside roof
Roof rust spots
Inside guards
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