327-V8 Powered: 1963 MG MGB
If you try and shove a giant V8 into a little car and find that the engine’s air cleaner doesn’t fit under the hood, you’ve got a few options. The cleanest look is to find an intake snorkus that allows you to run the stock hood, but you can also add a scoop or a cowl induction hood…or…you can bust out the sawzall and hack an opening in your hood. Find this 1963 MG MGB V8 offered for $8000 in Corning, CA via craigslist. Tip from Rock On!
From the seller:
1963 mgb roadster
fuel: gas
odometer: 10
paint color: black
title status: clean
transmission: manual
63 MGB with a rebuilt Chevy 327 4 speed, posi track. The car has been in storage since ‘85 with a DMV non op. runs strong. Just needs some minor things to make it road ready. $8,000.
I can’t hate on this. This has an old drag racer vibe and needs to go more in that direction with some period correct bits. I like that it has a 327. It’s what you would have built on a budget in the late ‘60s to try to battle Vettes and T-Birds on the track. This is an early MGB, but it’s so far modified that the value in that is moot now.
That said, something needs to be done with the hood and air cleaner and after 35 years of storage, I’m sure it needs a lot more than “some minor things to make it road readyâ€.
I like sleepers and this definitely isn’t. Needs to lose the high rise intake and the double pumper Holley which in itself is too much for a 327 and not necessary in a 2200lb car. Next, good luck finding a stock hood. This could be a lot of fun in a straight line and the price isn’t crazy.
Clearly the builder coudn’t make compound cuts. But hey old skool all the way. Back when people used to write on paper with a device known as a pen. I’ll bet its more fun than a barrel of monkees if it ran…………that is