MGB 

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MGB

VA13001

2012

1500

1974

China

Bronze Metallic Chassis: 532001 - last MGB produced The last of the 512,243 MGBs manufactured came off the line on the 22nd October 1980, ten years later than initially envisaged. Modelled here, it was one of the 1000 ‘run-out’ LE models which retailed for £6,108 and marked the end of MG production at Abingdon. However, the MGB refused to die. Bodyshell production restarted in 1988 and a worldwide industry has built up dedicated to its preservation. Always far greater than the sum of its parts the MGB is the definitive classic car. HOK 681W, the last factory built MGB, was retained by the British Motor Industry Heritage Trust Collection at Gaydon. It is currently on display in the Abingdon County Hall Museum and was ‘posted’ into the museum through a narrow second floor window after being hoisted up sideways using a crane. All its mechanical components, doors and windscreen-frame were removed in order to make it narrow enough. It was then reassembled inside the museum by engineers from British Motor Heritage, manufacturers of new MGB bodyshells. The Bronze Metallic MGB features revised rubber front and rear bumpers, a lower front LE spoiler, 5-spoke alloy wheels and a revised later model interior. Part of set MG1002