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About 5 years ago I ran across a 1973 MGB roadster for sale. The last year of chrome bumpers and low stance.. I snapped it up before someone else did. 22K original miles parked in a garage for all those years. All original of course and cleaned up like new. The door buttons were recessed half way so I took the door panels off to access the mechanism and fixed both sides easily. The padded rail at the top of the door cards is a stick of wood! 1x2 poplar by the looks of it. I couldn't believe they were actually still using wood in a 1973 automobile. I decided to check suspension components, wtf are the shocks? A single short arm coming out of a small box. No wonder I wasn't overwhelmed with the handling. The engine ran great but performed and sounded like a 1940s design, most likely because it is! Cute little car though and I sold it without even advertising. A guy saw it downtown and had to have it. I paid 3K, put a new battery in, cleaned it up and sold it for 8k 2 weeks after buying it. Now 5 years later it's worth at least 3 times that. Wish I had hung on to it longer now but oh well, it was an easy 5 grand flip.
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