Over more than 40 years of ownership, John Prewer has built his MGB into something very special: a 1964 roadster in the style it may well have been modified into by an MG enthusiast when it was new, in the mid-1960s, with every add-on in keeping with the era.
“I had owned my first MG, a 1978 MGB GT, for a year when I took it to a meeting of the Luxembourg MG Car Club,” he said. “There I found that borderline insane people took rusty wrecks and restored them to better than showroom condition and I wanted to try doing that. So I bought my own.”
John found AER 155B in 1982, just off a street in central Cambridge. It was being sold by the original owner from 1964 and had not run since 1977. £200 changed hands and a strip-down began, revealing a heavily bodged 1970s rebuild. Each rear wheel arch was made of eleven pieces of bent metal,the other side…
