1964 MGB

Hilarious plate!!!

GLWS!

 

Some interior photos would be good since you mentioned some detail work required.

 

man that looks pretty nice for 50 years old

 

I see it has the very early carb air filter housing that has a fitting for the rubber line from the valve cover breather tube. I am pretty sure MG only had that setup on the 1963 and 1964 models. Most of the early cars I see have a later set of air filter housings.

The radio speaker console for the early cars was just black plastic. I would look for a nice original on eBay or buy one of the reproductions. They are not very expensive.

I have owned at least a dozen MGBs over the years. My first car was a 73 that was my daily driver from 1979 to 1985.

 

Love the grille on these early cars. And look at that st wheel and man that body looks straight-GLWS

 

Some visual cues to help spot early MGBs include: pull-out door-handles (later ones had a thumb button to press in); no headrests; no sun visors. Helps to keep a couple of baseball caps in the car.

Early ones also had 3-main bearing cranks, soon going to 5-bearing engines. Does this car have the original engine? Matching-numbers aren't important on collector cars at this level. I have a '67 engine in our '64 B.

Further, this car still has the S.U. carbs. At the Tampa Bay's main Brit car show a couple of years ago, 15 out of approx 20 Bs had the Weber downdraft conversion. A very popular modification, but glad to see this car retaining the original carbs.

 

It can be less expensive to bolt on the Webber down draft than to get the SUs properly rebuilt. I like the original SUs too. Keeping them balanced is not a big deal.

 

some pics show 4 bolt alloy wheels one shows center bolt wire wheels. Which is it?

 

Those look like bolt on wires in the one picture, not the original type. A fair number of the 1963 and 1964 cars came with the standard steel disk wheels (steel wheels with plain chrome hub caps about 7 inches in diameter).

The wire wheel axle is physically different than the disk wheel axle. The wire wheel axle is narrower to accommodate the additional length of the wire wheel hubs. If you were to just bolt the wire wheel hubs to a disk wheel axle, the tires would rub the inside of the fender wells. Because of this, converting steel wheel cars to wire wheels was not very common in the old days. Now, you can buy wire wheel hubs for the rear axle that are shorter than stock so you get the correct offset.

Early disk wheel without hubcap:
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Ha! Mine too! ...from 1981-85. I drove the pants off of that thing. I would love to have space to relive the experience of my youth and pick this up but sadly I am space challenged.

 

Read the ad, says 2 sets of wheels.

 

Really beautiful car! Best of luck with the sale