Classics Monthly

Righting the previous wrongs on the BGT

Alan has been in the bodywork trade for 64 years, starting on a Friday evening and Saturday when he was still at school, then working full-time from the age of 15 in 1959. Since then he has worked on the most basic runabouts and the most expensive exotics, and had a hand in resurrecting most of the Classics projects over the last five years.

MY FLEET

1968 TRIUMPH VITESSE 2-LITRE CONVERTIBLE

OWNED SINCE: 2015

1973 MGB GT

OWNED SINCE: 2023

Having inspected the former project MGB GT and decided to buy it, I now had to crack on and sort out those bodywork issues I identified last issue. Very briefly for those who may have missed that issue, the

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