This week our little clan is in the South of Ireland traveling around. As we were taking a break at a petrol station along the motorway, this little beauty caught my eye as it was about to pull out.
We’ve written about MGB’s numerous times before as well as the GT variant so I won’t go into depth, but this little one from 1969 looks to be quite nice in white and that roofline is just perfection itself. Although the driver had just climbed back into his car before I noticed it, I started snapping away as we’ve found all the Irish to be extremely friendly and personable, so I wasn’t concerned…
He did seem to be in a bit of a hurry or perhaps just wanted to get away from the stranger with the camera, but he gave it “a bit of the Welly” as he pulled out and back towards the service road, serving up a nice little roar from the 1.8liter 4-cylinder engine. License plates in Ireland seem to be very easy to decipher, the first digits are the year, the letter is the county of registration (I believe County Cork in this case). This plate isn’t original to the car though, it would have had a black plate with a different sequence originally if I am not mistaken.
Those chrome bumper MGBs still get to me. Filling station CCs where you get to see them drive off are the best.
The chrome bumper GT’s are the prettiest of all mgb”s… To me.
Very nice ! .
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My 1967 MGB GT was of course, _black_ so even though I live in the Desert, I foolishly fell in love with the beauty of it and the low price, besides it was the day before Christmas so not too hot (oops) .
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When my Son first saw it he said ‘ wow ~ it looks like a James Bond car dad ! ‘ .
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I miss it still, these cars are wonderful drivers if not overly fast ~ instead they’re _quick_ .
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-Nate
I have a vague memory of looking at one of these with my dad in 1967 (I was 4), when he was looking for a replacement for Erik the Red, our PV444. (I guess he was more of a motor head than he let on.) Dad was very dissapointed but Mom pointed out that it was just too small, as the reason for the Volvo replacement was the birth of my sister. (We ended up with a Saab 95 wagon, just before they switched from the 2 stroke to the V4.)
Went to Ireland last year, I liked how the cars had the year on the license plates. My uncle has a 75 MGB that unfortunately hasn’t been taken out of winter hibernation in a few years.
New York puts it on the inspection sticker (facing outward) so if you can get close enough to a parked car, or certainly at a show you can go by that.
Always wanted one, and briefly had one; a 1968. But it was not a fulfilled relationship. I bought it with a bad head (among other things), and right afterwards, I was promoted and had no more time for it. It sat for about a year, when I finally got the head redone. I only drove it a few times before selling it to a guy at work, who drove it for quite a while.
Neat but disconcerting seeing a BGT with the ’66-’69 style grille, but later Rostyle road wheels, and without those aftermarket looking-but- stock side marker reflectors. Like others here, I had a blue ’67 GT and loved it.
What a perfect little car. From its sexy Continental mouth to its English church gothic taillights, just a delight.
Gorgeuos indeed. If I’d dream up my perfect daily driver, it would be that B GT on mx-5 bones with a mid-90s VAG 4-valve and a sliding ragtop. So perfect it hurts.
Sharp looking car for sure. Never seen one in the metal, just rubber bumper equipped MGB’s and Midgets.
Still one of my favorite cars of all time. 007’s DB5 in Goldfinger was one of those cars that made me a car person at a young age, and the whole “Poor Man’s Aston Martin” was/is rather appealing.
The year-of registration digits were only introduced around 1986, so this car was imported after 86 but before 99, when it would have qualified for a classic plate.