MGB GT model

Hey Lee, that MG of yours. is it the V8 or the 'LiL' engined version?. one tip i can give you is when you need to compress the front suspension with the springs in place use a piece of threaded bar with a nut on either end through one of the holes and tighten them down. makes lining everything up much easier than having spring compressors in place (and in the way). did that whilst we were re-building one at college and it worked real well.
Greg

i used to have 1979 MGB...you're right...wet legs in teh rain.

you know you own an MGB if you've ever said "you know, i kinda like th smell of mildew".

Lee Tree: FYI:
For those Aussies in Melbourne there is an MGCC Concours at the Wesley College grounds (St Kilda Rd)on Sunday Feb 8. Melways ref: 2L D10.

See you there.

ALSO:
A good forum for your full sized MGB:
www.british-cars.co.uk

Cheers, Pete.

BTW, I might have some good news for you soon.

Wave/BE-J Japan will set up an english online mail order catalog for their goods, they have a LOT of licences for 1/43 and similar Resin Car models.

In about 10 days they will close their shop for restorations where they will close the 2nd floor to the public and I think use it as an office/warehouse for the online ordering.
Re-opening is scheduled for the 16th/Feb./ at which time I would assume that they will be going online too.

Far out.........
Thanks for that - I've stuck it in my favorites and I'm sure I'll need it soon. Coulda used it last week.

Yes, it means something to me.

Looks like it was a conversion Kit for the Aoshima MG-B Kit.

Bad news, they no longer sell the Item.

BTW, for monolingual people I recomend this site:

http://world.altavista.com/tr

Uhhhh, Duh.
Okay, that was pretty stupid......sorry........stand by and I'll just find the URL.
Here 'tis..........
http://www1.rurbannet.ne.jp/~machikouba/shop/baiten/kits/kitazawa/littelewheel.html
Hope it means more to you than it does to me. Regrettably I'm mono-lingual.

Why don't you simply supply us the URL to the site in question, rather than let us search for it??

I can read japanese and might be able to help, but I ain't wasting time looking for search engine results.

Jonathan,
Thanks, man - I've had a look, but couldn't see the image on the ebay site, and the other cars are a little small.
I just took possession of a 1971 MGB GT - completely disassembled!! Well, not TOTALLY, the engine and the gearbox are still together, but the rest of it is in boxes. Oh boy. So I just gotta have a model of the little beastie that I WILL drive ONE DAY..............I just keep telling myself that..........
Have a look at Alta Vista - so a search for images - use "mgb gt" in parentheses as the subject. A few pages into the results (page 5 I think) shows a photo of the components of a 1/24 scale model of an MGB GT. If you click on the image, it links to a Japanese (I think!) model website - my computer can't handle the text, though.
The picture is here

Does anyone recognize this model? Or can anyone tell me who makes this model?
Help!!
Many thanks,

Oh man...I forgot I had this page bookmarked...

http://www.kandrreplicas.co.uk/MGS.HTM

There are a bunch of GTs here...about 1/2 way down the page. You can get them as a kit, or as a built model
I hope you can find what you're looking for there!

-jonathan

So, I looked around, and I know its not 1/25th, but I found this one on ebay

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3171611888&category=2583

I can't quite figure out whether it is a kit, or already built up. Either way, you could probably modify it if you needed to.


I'll keep my eye open. I drive an MGB, and I just finished a seriously kit bashed model B for my father. The big problem with almost all the MG models I've found, is that they only have wire wheels (no rostyles) and all of them are right hand drive. I had to carve a whole new interior for his car...plus a whole lot of other modifications...it was hard, but rewarding in the end.

Good luck, and let us know if you find something

ciao
-jonathan