Pennyfarina: 1970 MGB GT
The MGB GT is no stranger to this website because we’ve featured many over the years. And the B GT continues to be a fantastic bargain for a car with a Pininfarina roof and proper classic car credentials. I’d have expected these to increase in price with similar things from the era like Porsche 914/912, Datsun 240Z, Ford Mustang Fastback, Triumph TR etc…but you can still get them for reasonable amount of money. Find this 1970 MGB GT offered for $5999 in the Ocean Beach neighborhood of San Diego, CA via craigslist.
From the seller:
1970 MG MGB GT
condition: good
cylinders: 4 cylinders
drive: rwd
fuel: gas
odometer: 41000
paint color: blue
size: compact
title status: clean
transmission: manual
type: hatchback
Restored in 2015
Rebuilt Engine (2015) – roughly 15,000 miles since rebuild
High Compression Pistons (8.8 to 1)
Performance Camshaft
Downdraft Weber Carburetor
Extended Lower Control Arms (Increased Camber)
New Coil Springs
Rebuilt Front Suspension and Steering (All new Bushings, Tie Rod Ends, Steering Boots)
Performance Front Brakes with Drilled and Slotted Rotors and Ceramic Brake Pads
New Oil Cooler
Sebring Fiberglass Front Spoiler
Aftermarket Fan (Bigger than stock)
Electronic Ignition
Roll Bar with 4-point harness in driver’s seat
Resprayed in 2015 (Bermuda Blue)
Black Plates
Smog Exempt
Clean Title
Daily Driver for 5 years
Great first car for someone wanting to get into classic cars.
Those plates are black, but they aren’t correct. This would have had blue plates when it was new if it was in California.
True. The plates here are the new “reproduction†black plates that are similar but definitely not the same as the originals from the sixties. The big giveaway is the letter/number spacing and sequencing.
Original CA black plates are all letter, letter, letter, space, number, number, number. They ran from roughly ’63 to’69 and then switched to blue plates which were all number, number, number, space, letter, letter, letter until eventually going 7 digits/letters around 1980.
Not to mention the new black plates are reflective paint on aluminum! The originals were single stage on steel, of course.
He would have blue plates if like my late 1970 P car the car was sold in 1970. Mine was a BSW at the end, plated in March of 1970. I wonder where the car came from. The black repro plates , if Im correct, are all wrong. Nice looking car. I ought to go and see it but I dont have any space for it. Darn
Hard to believe it’s this cheap. Then again I never look because having 2 MGBs in the 70s cured me of ever wanting one again especially when Alfa Spiders were selling for $1500 the better part of 3 decades.
It may have a Pininfarina roof but I never noticed until today that in profile the tail is Austin America.
The Austin America followed the MG 1100 by a few years in the American market, so I always think of the back as looking like the MG 1100. I spent a lot of time in the back of a 1100 as a child.
I think this is the first time I’ve ever seen a car for sale photographed at a national cemetery.
Better or worse than at the gas station?
Great looking car btw