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    Pick-N-Pull: Buy This MGB-GT Today Or We'll Feed It To The Cruel Jaws Of The Crusher!

    Guess The 24 Hours Of LeMons Lap Totals, Win Fabulous Prizes: Opel GT or MGB-GT?

    PCH, Index Of Effluency Edition: MGB-GT or Fiat X1/9?
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    Image of theeastbaykid theeastbaykid
    03/16/09

    In reply to Pick-N-Pull: Buy This MGB-GT Today Or We'll Feed It To The Cruel Jaws Of The Crusher!
    I love this ad. Basically a put up or shut up to all the guys who sit behind computers dictating who should save what car. (As I silently wait for that car to hit the yard so I can hack off the panels necessary for the project....)
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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    03/16/09

    @theeastbaykid: Yeah, I could use some pieces for the Sprite- lots of B parts fit the Spridget.
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    03/16/09

    In reply to Pick-N-Pull: Buy This MGB-GT Today Or We'll Feed It To The Cruel Jaws Of The Crusher!
    This is in a lot better shape than the MGB I've seen rusting in a corner of the local mechanic's shop. If I had the time, money, and sanity to spend, I might fix up one of these. But even given unlimited resources, this would still be fairly far down on my list of project cars.
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    03/16/09

    In reply to Pick-N-Pull: Buy This MGB-GT Today Or We'll Feed It To The Cruel Jaws Of The Crusher!
    BGT's are nice cars. and this one's a little rough but pretty much all together. Oh, wait, what's that? The lid to wiper fluid reservoir is missing and one of the tires looks a bit low. So sorry, pass.


    Still, $900 isn't ridiculous money to be asking for this, especially in California, where old cars seem to hold their values remarkably well.

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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    03/16/09

    In reply to Pick-N-Pull: Buy This MGB-GT Today Or We'll Feed It To The Cruel Jaws Of The Crusher!
    An MGB-GT isn't exactly huge, and $900 isn't quite stupid money, but I'm afraid I don't have any means of a) picking it up and bringing it home, or b) a place to store it.


    Somebody else please adopt this cute little money pi...er...runabout!

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    Image of Ford Tempo Fanatic Ford Tempo Fanatic
    03/16/09

    In reply to Pick-N-Pull: Buy This MGB-GT Today Or We'll Feed It To The Cruel Jaws Of The Crusher!
    I'm already planning on making the mistake of buying a British Leyland product, and I just can't buy two..
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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    03/16/09

    @Ford Tempo Fanatic: Sure you can. Parts car!
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    Image of Ford Tempo Fanatic Ford Tempo Fanatic
    03/16/09

    @Murilee Martin: But how much is interchangeable between the MGB GT and the Midget? Besides, without even looking at the location of the MGB I already know its probably over 3,000 miles away. ;)
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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    03/16/09

    @Ford Tempo Fanatic: Plenty of stuff interchanges. Tailights, gauges, Lucas stuff...
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    Image of Uncle Bo Uncle Bo
    03/16/09

    In reply to Pick-N-Pull: Buy This MGB-GT Today Or We'll Feed It To The Cruel Jaws Of The Crusher!
    Is it me or does this car have factory AC? Maybe that's a smog pump but the vents in the center of the dash look like AC to me. What do you think it is?
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    Image of Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face. Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face.
    03/16/09

    In reply to Pick-N-Pull: Buy This MGB-GT Today Or We'll Feed It To The Cruel Jaws Of The Crusher!
    Well, it's a good thing I'm 2000 miles away from this. I need another car like I need another girlfriend.
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    Image of DoctorNine DoctorNine
    03/15/09

    In reply to Pick-N-Pull: Buy This MGB-GT Today Or We'll Feed It To The Cruel Jaws Of The Crusher!
    I remember when these things were new. What a hot item. I told myself that I would own one some day. I really believed that I would.



    Alas, that day would never come.

    What happened, I cannot rightly say.

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    Image of Steven Dale Schmitt Steven Dale Schmitt
    03/15/09

    In reply to Pick-N-Pull: Buy This MGB-GT Today Or We'll Feed It To The Cruel Jaws Of The Crusher!
    if you had ever owned, driven and maintained one of these, you would not be so enamored. sure they are cute, so is a baby crocodile.


    and worst of all it is a 72.

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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    03/16/09

    @Steven Dale Schmitt: Had a '73 as a daily driver for 3 years. I know.
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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    03/15/09

    In reply to Pick-N-Pull: Buy This MGB-GT Today Or We'll Feed It To The Cruel Jaws Of The Crusher!
    It even has air horns!
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    Image of that ain't the way to have fun, son that ain't the way to have fun, son
    03/15/09

    In reply to Pick-N-Pull: Buy This MGB-GT Today Or We'll Feed It To The Cruel Jaws Of The Crusher!
    The above-referenced Bay-Em-Vay is even running!!!


    Someone has got to be able to sell a grand worth of stuff off this machine. Hood, most of the interior, trunk lid...bumpers...


    Man. I'm glad I'm not a BMW guy. I'd be looking for a cheap-assed flight.

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    Image of Leeeeena the Jalopchick Leeeeena the Jalopchick
    03/15/09

    @my beater Mercedes lacks reverse: Don't forget to sell the carphone to the Museum of Antiquated Technology!
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    Image of that ain't the way to have fun, son that ain't the way to have fun, son
    03/15/09

    @Leeeeena the Jalopchick:


    Hey! I'm saving a can of R-12 for my garage wall-of-fame.


    I wish my wife and I had kept the Motorola 'brick' phone. There's other stuff I'll keep over time...like SAE wrenches.

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    Image of Leeeeena the Jalopchick Leeeeena the Jalopchick
    03/15/09

    @my beater Mercedes lacks reverse: Heh, I look forward to the day we all go metric. My family's a bunch of packrats, too, and I'm convinced that someday this will be worth a lot of money.


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    Image of Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face. Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face.
    03/16/09

    @Leeeeena the Jalopchick: I don't know what that is, but I know it's not as old as this.


    [crosses fingers that his image works...]

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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    03/16/09

    @Mike the Dog wants his Preview Button back!: You young kids don't know nothing! I learned to code BASIC on one of these, when I wasn't playing freakin' Battlezone:


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    Murilee Martin was starred Murilee Martin was unstarred
    Image of Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face. Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face.
    03/16/09

    @Murilee Martin: Your Sinclair is the grandchild of the Commodore PET (which was my first exposure to BASIC in 1977).
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    Image of Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face. Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face.
    03/16/09

    @Mike the Dog wants his Preview Button back!: Who were you calling a kid, son?
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    Image of Leeeeena the Jalopchick Leeeeena the Jalopchick
    03/16/09

    @Mike the Dog wants his Preview Button back!: Okay, you win! I was born in 1984 anyway, so all this stuff was probably already obsolete by the time I even came into existence.
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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    03/16/09

    @Mike the Dog will work for a Preview Button!: OK, you win. I didn't get my Sinclair until 1981.
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    Image of Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face. Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face.
    03/16/09

    @Murilee Martin: Cassette tape drive FTW!!!
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    03/15/09

    In reply to Pick-N-Pull: Buy This MGB-GT Today Or We'll Feed It To The Cruel Jaws Of The Crusher!
    Motherfuck. I hope they pulled the remaining Virgos off that 740 wagon.


    Oh, yeah, the MGB's pretty damn cute, too. Someone'll take it for $900.

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    Image of Doc 2¢ Doc 2¢
    03/15/09

    In reply to Pick-N-Pull: Buy This MGB-GT Today Or We'll Feed It To The Cruel Jaws Of The Crusher!
    Oh if only it was here in the east coast.
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    Image of leavethegun-takethecannoli leavethegun-takethecannoli
    03/16/09

    @dr1p: Nothing is ever on the East Coast.
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    Image of Truth thru Physics Truth thru Physics
    03/15/09

    In reply to Pick-N-Pull: Buy This MGB-GT Today Or We'll Feed It To The Cruel Jaws Of The Crusher!
    This car would definitely be a great LeMons entry. Oh that boldly assumes you could get it to run for two days..


    On second thought, maybe not.

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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    03/15/09

    @Truth thru Physics: The Frogmasters MGB-GT was as quick around the track as most of the RX-7s and E30s and it never broke. If the drivers hadn't been total suicidal black flag magnets, it coulda been a contender.
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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    03/15/09

    @Murilee Martin: Here's the link.
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    Image of McLarenF1LM McLarenF1LM
    03/15/09

    In reply to Pick-N-Pull: Buy This MGB-GT Today Or We'll Feed It To The Cruel Jaws Of The Crusher!
    I would absolutely love to buy this car. Too bad I:


    1. Live 3000 miles away

    2. Am in the Navy

    3. Home is a 1000 miles away

    4. Have no place to store it at home.


    Someone please save it! An MGB-GT is too cool to crush.

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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    03/16/09

    @McLarenF1LM: Hey, it's so small, you could hide it on your ship, right? And work on it in your spare time. You know any chopper pilots who'd hoist it for you?

    Great excitement at the PnP as a chopper swoops in and airlifts the little MG to safety...
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