Give new life to your MGB! With the aid of nearly 1,400 illustrations, and a text aimed at the do-it-yourselfer, this information-packed volume provides detailed, step-by-step information on everything you need to renovate your MGB body, interior, upholstery, engine, and electrical components. Contains complete and detailed information on how to build a Heritage MGB, and tells how to buy an MGB, MGC or MGB V8 and the pitfalls to avoid. The finest MGB restoration book published to date.
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Lindsay Porter is a well-respected and prolific author of practical automotive books and manuals. He lives in Bromyard, Herefordshire.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Essential Modern Middle Ground Book,
By Robert D. Steele (Oakton, VA United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (HALL OF FAME REVIEWER)
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This review is from: MGB Restoration Manual (Restoration Manuals) (Hardcover)
This is NOT the foundation book for MGB maintenance and repair. That honor is still held by the Haynes MGB 1962 thru 1980 book published in the 1980's and often delivered as part of the "kit" to anyone buying an original MGB, as I just did.
This book, however, is a really superb rendition of modern guidance, with superb photographic essays of complex operations. Although it has a color cover, all of the photographs are in black and white. The book is a real build on top of a normal repair manual, with sections on history, buying (BUY THIS BOOK BEFORE YOU BUY AN MGB), and then bodywork, interior trim, mechanical, electrical, and so on. The third book that I recommend is Anders Ditlev Clausager's "Original MGB With MGC and MGB GT V8." This is a coffee table book, a "this is what perfect looks like," and it is both inspirational and just plain delightful. I drove my 1964 MGB across the country in the four days after I bought it (at 2500 RPM most of the way, 65 mph, but on special stretches of Iowa, doing 4000 RPM for sustained periods) because I love this car as a sports drive, not a driveway show car. Still, it is really great to see what perfection without regard to long haul rallying looks like, and I could not do without all three books.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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A picture's worth a thousand words....,
By daintybrit "Brit" (Portland, Oregon United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: MGB Restoration Manual (Restoration Manuals) (Hardcover)
People - The Restoration manual is exactly what it claims to be- A RESTORATION GUIDE! If you are looking for step-by-step body-work help, or a trouble shooting guide look elsewhere. This is a Restoration Guide!!! This book assumes you've done the dent-removal & painting and are ready to re-assemble. We've got 4 MG's and are currently restoring a '68. There's no substitute for having a picture or diagram to guide you & this book is loaded with both. I only wish we had got this book 2 MG's ago! Don't attempt a re-build without it!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not a stand alone book,
By Robert R. Deitrich (Danville, VA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: MGB Restoration Manual (Restoration Manuals) (Hardcover)
While it has some photos and covers some topics that the standard repair manual does not (such as cutting out rusty body parts and replacing them), it lacks information you need to trouble shoot. If you want to work with what you have this is not the book for you. If you want to buy new or used parts and stick them on, this book is for you.
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When the last MGB rolled from the sudden emptiness of Abingdon's redundant production line on 22 October 1980, it ended an era of sports car motoring which could be said to have begun there some eighteen years and four months earlier when the first production MGB was built but which, in truth, had its roots at least as far back as the early 1920s. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
autumn leaf trim, normal safety rules, gulp valve, copper brake pipes, header rail, wheel splines, crosshead screws, wishbone arms, donor car, new bodyshell, octane quality, navy trim, trolley jack, project car, captive nuts, tab washers, trim colour, valve seat inserts, sender unit, bumper brackets, inch wrench, timing chain cover, centre console, fitting instructions, split pin Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Copper Ease, Conversion Company, Moss Parts Catalogue, Graham Macdonald, British Leyland, Burlen Fuel Systems, John Hewitt, Moss Europe, Special Tuning, Aldon Automotive, Rover Group, Safety Observe, Machine Mart, Read Appendix, United States, Alan Sinclair, Range Rover, Safety Always, Serck Marston, Syd Enever, West Midlands, Cecil Kimber, Longwall Street, Martin Smith, Nuffield Group New!
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When the last MGB rolled from the sudden emptiness of Abingdon's redundant production line on 22 October 1980, it ended an era of sports car motoring which could be said to have begun there some eighteen years and four months earlier when the first production MGB was built but which, in truth, had its roots at least as far back as the early 1920s. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
autumn leaf trim, normal safety rules, gulp valve, copper brake pipes, header rail, wheel splines, crosshead screws, wishbone arms, donor car, new bodyshell, octane quality, navy trim, trolley jack, project car, captive nuts, tab washers, trim colour, valve seat inserts, sender unit, bumper brackets, inch wrench, timing chain cover, centre console, fitting instructions, split pin Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Copper Ease, Conversion Company, Moss Parts Catalogue, Graham Macdonald, British Leyland, Burlen Fuel Systems, John Hewitt, Moss Europe, Special Tuning, Aldon Automotive, Rover Group, Safety Observe, Machine Mart, Read Appendix, United States, Alan Sinclair, Range Rover, Safety Always, Serck Marston, Syd Enever, West Midlands, Cecil Kimber, Longwall Street, Martin Smith, Nuffield Group New!
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- Car Bodywork Repair Manual by Lindsay Porter on page 44, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- In the Beginning (The Lion Story Bible, No. 1) by Penny Frank on page 1
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