A few weeks ago, I became the new owner of my 1976 MGB GT.
Since then, I have driven it lots, tinkered, cleaned, and generally admired it. The car came with a pretty substantial history file containing receipts, invoices, MOT certificates, etc covering a good amount of time.
However, other than invoices for parts and work, I don’t know much about my new classic. As someone who loves the story of old and historic things, I’ve begun my research into finding out the story of my MGB GT.
So far, I’ve got the heritage certificate, reached out to some of the garages that have worked on the car in the past, and looked at the information I already have.
While there are still big gaps in the story of ORB 790P, I can now see what it looked like in its original specification with rubber bumpers – it has since been converted to chrome (which, I have to say, looks much more sophisticated).
There’s still a long way to go but I now have some photographic records from a day in December 2006 when my car had a windscreen repair completed as well as some paintwork.
