1973 MGB GT - Lost in the woods for 32 years - will it run??  

I could watch you and your kids for hours working on old cars. I love the interactions and learning. Thank you for sharing your life with us. Great video.

Great job on getting that little MGB out of it's long slumber. And If I may say, spending quality time with your boys is rewarding.

Great teamwork guys! Beautiful MG with lots of potential. Always a blessing to watch a Dad train up his Sons. God bless you all and thanks for sharing!

Amazing job fellas! It's wonderful to see a father not only being a great father, but also teaching his sons about working on old cars, solving problems, patience, and everything else that should make a man a man. Well done, and you've got a new subscriber!

Good to see the old girl come to life. MGs were built at the Longbridge factory Birmingham England long gone, now an housing estate not far from where I live. Keep up the good work.

Reminds me of my Dad and me back in the early 70's. My dad wasn't that mechanical, but he taught me how to jack the car, change tires, plugs, batteries, bulbs etc. I kept going with DIY'ing for the rest of my life.

Good work & great to see the kids involved....from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

When I was in the USMC I bought a 1972 red MGB and had the car until I got married. On the day of my marriage, someone backed into it and smashed the drivers side door in. Ended up selling it like it was. Wish I still had it. Cheers from eastern TN

good to see young american kids been taught how to work on a old British car, the MG still has a massive following here in the UK and help or info you need just go online they is always someone willing to help

Keep going chaps you started off well!!!

Pretty good deal and it sounds amazing for sitting do long ....really cool

Good job guys I enjoyed it I look forward to following you On the MG Project.

This brings back it all back, I am in the UK & i had a 1969 MGBGT for 10 years, 95 to 2005, great to see one of these in the USA, this one looks like a solid car so should should be a good one to bring back to the road.

That's a nice sounding B-series engine, good result, well done! Good that you are getting the youngsters involved, hopefully, they might get interested! Greetings from the UK!

Awsome project

So nice to see a dad and his boys working together and having a common interest rather than hiding in a room playing playstation... Go daddy go

Awesomeness y’all!😎

Brought back memories for me. When I was younger I had a 74 MGB with the same dual carburetor setup and gauges. Fun to drive on winding roads.

please please please more videos on this beaut. I have a 1974 Round wheel arch 1275 Mg Midget (little brother of the MG B and MG B GT) I love this video !!! i hear the distinctive MG sound !!!!!!! wooooooooooo

Nice one! Love seeing old bits of kit bought back to life!. Nice to see the younger generation getting involved!. Nuff said!. 🙂

Them boys learned more doing this then they will in a whole year of school

Fun video. Record everything! Your boys are gonna appreciate it later. Revived an 88 Fiero with my oldest boy for his first car. Now that he is older he really appreciates the work that went into bringing that car back to life.

Loved watching this, i was born and bought up 10 miles from Abingdon Oxfordshire UK where MG (Morris Garages) factory was , a school friend did an apprenticeship there in the mid 70s , my brother owned a MGB GT with the big rubber fenders ( we call them bumpers) , the MGs are fun to drive and the engines are very easy to work on (think it dates back to the late 40s early 50s) plenty of spares about , here in the UK the body work was a real swine for rust though on all models . Love from the UK ❤

Happy to see that the little Boys are helping Daddy.❤❤❤

Great video brother! I enjoyed it a lot. Can’t wait to see more videos and the progression of this car among others. Keep it up!

Great work from the boys and a great learning curve

Nice find, great kids and good attitude. Can’t wait to see running down the road. I’m subscribed.

Hay you guys are doing real great we enjoyed ta vid keep at it cant wait for the next one good work the 2 sons to

Intresting model!!! It's a Beautiful car Congratulations for to rescue it

Great fun, simple cars. 'This Week In Cars' channel is a great reference for MG and other old UK sports cars.

Classic car, classic kids.

Just a whole lot of fun guys!! Those little MG's and MGB's are great fun cars once you get them going!

great video.MG's are way under rated .Awesome your teaching your boys about mechanics.They dont even teach it in school anymore.Great Job !!

Good to see your boys involved. Dads job: teach. Boys job: learn. Have fun too. You'll get better at video production I'm sure.

I like the Triumiph you have sitting there. When I was a kid we had a family project building a 72 Spitfire. Frame swapped it. I was only 6 when he did that so hopefully I was sorta helpful for him. 😂

If any valve is stuck using the starter motor will destroy the engine. Better to remove spark plugs and turn over by hand to see if it can make full revolutions. Also good to put a little transmission oil down bores to ease things along.

That car has been a real challenge! Good job.

Awesome! Sounds really good after 32 years😊

That was awesome look forward to the next video.

I went to an MGA one day, the owner as far as I remember, bought it in Texas .Theory was from the south would be rust free , a safe buy. He got it home and on closer inspection was an expensive pile of rust. Anyway all the best from Western Australia. , Yeah, it was a very expensive mistake

Awesome video brother!! Can’t wait to see more!! Great cars!!

Awesome video, you guys did well. Great to see dad with the kids.

Awesome job! It would be cool if you could mount the front end of the B on the GT6 in the background...call it a GTB.

Another subscriber here in England. Great stuff!!! :D

I am glad you found a US spec 'B' but with the better chrome bumpers. Looks like you have found a pretty good bodyshell and the electrics / mechanicals are pretty easy to work through. You will find a lot of similarities with your GT6. great project so best of luck from across the Pond. 👍👍

Lovely find an old "B" You might not understand this but In the UK I and many others raced old cars on oval tracks called "BANGER RACING" and going back 30 years or more, the car to use as a 4-door saloon called an Austin or Morris A60, and, the MGB engine looked the same as the factory smaller-engined car so many swapped In the twin carb MBG lump to make the cars we used faster, and, the moment your B lump fired up brought back so many memories of them days I once took part most weekends racing in.. Some drivers even used MGB GTs complete to Banger race.. Banger Racing is a sport raced on an oval track with the intention of hitting or pushing other slower cars out the way around doing 30 or more laps.. Pure Madness but so much fun.. Anyway, I hope you get on with your "B" GT as It looks worth saving, but If It was found like that In the UK it would have got raced (And wrecked) sadly.

Great to see you educating the kids..UK

This is great! Keep at it! You’ve got another viewer!

What a great car find !. Really good to see your sons so involved and enjoying it. I like the way you explain as you go along, regardless of whether its a fail or a win ! Am watching from London in the UK, so keep up the good work, as I love old MGs and Triumphs etc.

This is how you raised boys, engaged them in something men do.

Great video! The kids are so excited :) looking forward to seeing her on the toad. And all the other rusty beauties as well. You have quite a collection :)

That was risky jacking it up like that. I was waiting for the jack to go through the rusty floor. Is that a MG Midget and a GT6 in the background. I rebuilt both but had to get rid of them when I could no longer bend to get into them. Spent more time at the side of the road fixing but that is the pleasure with British vintage cars. Great video and great to see the children really learning about fixing cars.

Great start this is going to be a long but rewarding journey, excellent for the boys too look forward to seeing this develop. 👌

Well done in getting her going!! I look forward to seeing your progress. We are currently restoring my dad's old Jaguar Xj6. Greetings from South Africa 😊

Firt time running in 32 years? Amazing! Best of luck with the rest of it!

Great work guys

My second car was a '70 MGB GT with a '73 engine, around 1983. Plan on a fuel pump. The plastic ones back in the day would get hot and seize, shutting down the car at inopportune times, only to work fine for a day or a week after cooling down. The OEM version was expensive, but never failed me for the 3 years after I installed it. (sold the car) Have fun tinkering on the old girl.

Really enjoyed the video fella great stuff 🤗

I subscribed because of your teaching the kids, nice to pass along the mechanical aspect of life.

Great video. I had a couple of early Minis down here in NZ. Those SU carbs are really basic and easy to clean. Take the top off and clean the needle up so the plunger moves up and down freely, I used to use a bit of metal polish on it and make sure the dashpot has oil in it for the damper (you might know all this stuff as I see you have a GT Triumph too....that will be one neat car to build).

Great work team. Pleased to see the sons are out there learning from a great dad. We hear all the bad news stories but never the good ones. Our dad walked out on our family when I was eight. So it moves me to see that father. Oh yeah I have a 1974 MGB GT. You will all enjoy yours too.

Your doing well and engaging with your children. Keep going. From kev in the UK...

I like that you paid $600 dollars for it because we know it's a lot of money to restore one.

Great fun to see you and the boys revive the GT. The only B I owned was a ‘71 that was rusted out underneath but ran every day, summer and winter, like a Swiss watch. Hated to give up on her but it was becoming Swiss cheese. Subbed to your channel to follow along with you guys as long as you can. Blessing to all… 🇺🇸⚓️ St Marys, GA

Cool car. Keep up the good work! I crewed one that went to the 24 Hours of Daytona in ‘72 or ‘73. Made it 11 hours an broke a valve. Did not qualify for Sebring. Brought back some great memories.

Your doing fine in front of the cam don't worry ,,,great job.

Well done guyz (all 3!). The MG cars were great to mess with, owners here in the UK loved the driving of them and keeping them running well. The ignition points can be tricky, the points gap is set first, then time the ignition with a multimeter using the static timing marks on the front pulley. You will get it fairly accurate on static set up. The cam lobe on the distributor will need some lubrication though, you can’t let it run ‘dry’. It will wear out the points plastic cam very quickly without some smear of grease (not too much!). If the plastic cam wears too fast it will close the points gap until the engine won’t start or becomes quite rough.

I think the original colour was sandy beige. An official BMC colour but not used a lot. A couple of weeks ago I hauled our '67 MGB GT out of the pasture where is has sat since 1986 (we bought the car new in Saskatoon SK in 1966) and it is sandy beige. I got the engine running and compression is now 120 on all 4 and am hoping with more running will get increase. But now dealing with no clutch and no brakes. Thanks for posting. I follow Elin Yakov and Cheftush for Triumph (we have a TR2) and now will follow you for the MG. John in Manitoba.

Good job sir! Great to see you and your lads bringing that old beaut back from the brink. It’s great to see someone who’s prepared to tackle old British wiring 😂

Nice model year- no ugly rubber bumpers.

Those boys are going into school tomorrow saying their Dad can fix anything.

So kewel😊❤

That sounded quite nice once it settled to idle🤔

As a boy these were fairly common over this side of the pond in the 🇬🇧 but due to our wet and cold climate they rotten as a 🍐 after 10 to 15 years from new so not many now around over here so best wishes to you to save this British classic 😊

Watching that ratchet turned so many times; you should grab an electric 90* ratchet. Affordable options on the jungle site.

Cool video team

Hi. Very nice ! it sounds really great. Just a small remark- I you want to keep the audience with you and have more subscribers, you must keep up the pace. Most people will drop out after some 10 min on battery wires. I have subscribed. Good luck ! 👍👍 Noam.

I've just put a new wiring loom into my 1968 MG GT. If I were doing it again, I'd get the loom unbound, because it didn't fit and I couldn't see which wire was which under the binding. I'd probably go for some after-market, universal loom because they are cheaper.

Out lived any UK car!

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Had a '72....I liked the electric fuel pump.....just turn the key and wait for the clicking to stop.

Good job It’s a runner 😅

Car doesn't seem to have much rust which is always a plus!

Jospeh Lucas the prince of darkness

Great video guys. One thing, why are you pumping the throttle on the SU carbs? they do not have accelerator pump discharge diaphragms. More important on SU carbs, is the piston dampers. They need very light machine oil to work correctly and should offer some resistance.

nice kids...dad well you know dads

The grill is wrong for a 1973 B. In 1973 the grill was a black plastic honeycomb affair. Please list the serial number or look at it carefully. This car looks more like a late 60s B. It has a air pump bracket and carbon canister. I have a ‘73 B tourer that I have owned for 33 years. I stand corrected, the steering wheel is definitely for a 1973 B. Someone must have changed the grill to a more desirable earlier MGB. They are fun cars to work on and great on the road. I look forward to you future videos.

Why are you worried about the mechanicals when the body needs a complete restoration? Are you going to restore this car or just drive it as is? It's great that you saved it. I wish I could restore something like this.

SU carbs don't have an accelerator pump, so it's no use pumping the throttle spindle before attempting to start it

S.U carburetors dont possess an accelerator pump on any version, nor do the Stromberg equivolents as fitted to that Triumph GT6 I see in the background.....unless it has a 2.5 P.I injected engine in it of course lol. they are called constant velocity carburetors, and rely on the velocity of the air being drawn in lifting the dashpot in relation to the amount of vacuum created between it and the butterfly valve to lift that damper- and with it its attached main jet needle, so all the cranking you were doing on the throttle linkage was just a wasted exercise in this case, before you try starting it you should check that the throttle butterflies are opening and closing freely and that the dashpots are free lifting, do this by lifting each one with your finger through the throat and watching how quickly it returns to rest (if at all, if it sticks) the damper contains the tapered main jet needle inserted into a round fuel inlet bore which expands the throat opening size as the damper rises and withdraws the needle in direct proportion to the amount of carb throat exposed as the damper rises, plus all S.U's require three quarters to full choke at initial start up even in warm weather when cold - BECAUSE they dont use accelerator jets,- the choke cable quickly being reduced down to zero bit by bit as the engine warms and begins to hunt. the choke device basically mechanically lowers the main jet tube by an internal bell crank lever allowing more fuel to get past the tapered main jet while not opening the dash pot thereby increasing the stoichiometric ratio (fuel to air ratio) making the mixture richer, you mentioned toward the end you felt the engine was running smoothly, when actually it was running like a bag of spanners compared to how well it WILL run once both carbs are synchronised, plus once syncronised the idle speed can be lowered down to about seven fifty/eight hundred revs and it will sit burbling away happily all day long. this post is already long enough so if you would like any advice on how best to tune and synchronise the carbs and setting the timing or any of the other mechanical or electrical stuff etc from someone who used to do it for a living thousands of years ago when Adam used to bring in his for service (god it feels like it now) let me know in a vid before you set to doing it and I will attempt to give advice should you need any - if you create a throw away Email address and give it to me I could respond with mine (dont like to put mine out on here) . by the way as regards the batteries, modern maintenance free Li On batteries will fit in one of the battery trays comfortably.

That was brave putting jacks underneath an MG that's been sitting in the woods for 25 years! These things rusted away like butter in a warm pan in the UK climate and were so poorly assembled by British Leyland that I'm surprised any of it is still standing!

What color are you going to paint it? What was the original color?

Please put Marvel Mystery Oils in each spark plug hole…let sit overnight

This likes almost like a datsun z

Some available with a v8 -whoosh

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Fix 'er up and make a dollar. British cars and bikes of their era were pretty but terrible vehicles best suited to owner-mechanics (I collect vintage Triumphs and Nortons) which is why they killed their parent companies. However they're easy to work on though and the right buyer will be happy to pay. The enthusiast community has answers to every question so get familiar with MG owners groups and of course get the factory service manual and parts catalogs.

G'day New sub here, trying to do similar things on my Channel!! keep up the cool work i got 2 young boys also hopefully as they get older they'll help a bit more!! 🙂

Did you even check the oil? The first place to check on these old engines is the ignition system, then the fuel supply. You should never start these engines with no coolant.

Sorry to let you know but "su" carburettors don't have jets that pump fuel in the engine...so pumping the throttle does nothing....