A barrage of ’Bs gives their values a squeeze

Iknow I keep telling you what good value MGBS are but I’m seeing so many at bargain-basement money that I’m going to remind you all over again. At the same sale as the Mustang above, no fewer than seven MGBS were entered and all found new homes for what felt like under-market money.

My best buy was a Mineral Blue

’67 GT sitting on steel wheels and hubcaps. Still looking fresh after an older restoration, it had a history folder going back 25 years and just two previous owners. I thought it was a snip at £6200 plus premium and would’ve been delighted to drive it home and tuck it away.

Another GT – this time a shiny matching-numbers ’71 in Tartan Red, last owner 16 years, restored twice in its lifetime with lots of history to prove, plus a low-digit number plate – was knocked down for just £7500. Which, given how bright and straight it looked, didn’t seem expensive either.

A ’78 Pageant Blue rubber-bumper Roadster – enthusiastically described in the catalogue as, ‘without doubt the best ’78 roadster I have seen’ – did indeed look and sound faultless. Sitting on LE wheels with walnut dash, it came with a huge history file going back to 1983 detailing all repairs and servicing plus a continuous run of Mots and £24k’s worth of invoices and bills. At just £8100 plus premium this was a genuine steal.

I hope such tantalising prices for this trio were simply because of over-supply on the day rather than any concerns that the MGB’S star may be fading. Each of these cars was sold for significantly less than their past owners had invested.

Sounds a good deal to me.

VALUE 2012

£7500

VALUE NOW

£12.5k