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It took John Davies a whole two years before he could get to do anything with his very special MGB GT V8 but through no fault of his own. He bought the car in March 2020, just before the start of the first national lockdown caused by Covid-19.

It was in Scotland and he transported it home to Yorkshire where it was immediately put into a storage facility where John couldn’t even get to it for the first six months, until restrictions were eased. “By then we were also in the throes of moving house,” said John, “and that meant it was the summer of 2022 before I got around to really doing anything with it.”

TOH 654N was outwardly in pretty sound order when he bought it but it was far from perfect, not that it would have affected his decision either way. “I bought the car unseen as I was so keen to have it and, although presentable from a distance, the door fit and panel fit

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