I love the smell of old cars, part of me thinks that you can smell history and heritage alongside the fuel vapour.

 

And the dust

 

I had a 71 MGB in Flame Red. That had a Rover V8 shoehorned into it. It also had that rather special smell of lether and petrol... and oil and too hot platsic and festering carpet and what's that burning.

 

Well, I'd like to buy one someone else has paid to do that, but yes, an MGB with a Rover V8 would be an ambtion fulfilled...

 

Not forgetting the distinctive smell of the old castor oil based lubricants. The old man used to take me to Ingliston Circuit (now no longer in use) and that smell immediately reminds of those visits ...

 

My first car was a 1974 MGB GT V8.

Later on I bought a 1980 MGB Roadster with 8k on the clock and had it converted to V8 spec by David Franklin at the Huntsman Garage in Downend, Bristol.

Lowered and stiffened suspension. A 4 barrel Holley. Offenhauser inlet manifold. Gas flowed heads. Double valve springs. High Compression pistons.

That was some car. And it's still going strong in the hands of a friend of mine.

 

I have a 1967 MGB GT

I've owned it for nearly 20 years and it has been in pieces, following me from house to house, during that time

I bought it at auction - horrible but complete and original

Along the way the bodyshell has had everything done to it - new inner and outer wings, fron and back, sills inner and outer, floorpans, etc - and was painted Old English White

I have the engine rebuilt that's never been run and boxes of new parts, from seat covers to carpets

I may break my rule and put some pictures up, not least because it might give me further incentive to put it all back together

 

Oooooh Castrol R, definately in the top 10 of smells.

 

Nice car. OEW is a very nice colour for a GT.

 

My first car was a 1963 mini running a Webber DCOE 40 carb, that sat neatly in a recess cut into the bulkhead, woooweee I was high as a kite on every journey