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MG MG Y Type - ANYONE LOOKING FOR A YB

I have read Jim Henderson's posting for the first YB - it will be interesting to see what it goes for.

However, as I am occasionally contacted about available Y Types and quite often YB's I thoight that I would draw attention to a YB that is for sale in Oxfordshire (UK). It's on page 64 of the Wednesday 8 July edition of Classic Car Weekly.

There is a photograph together with a brief description of the car. The seller is asking £4995. It may well have been sold but for anyone interested the phone number is 01235 522958.

I have no finacial interest in the car and dont know of it.Its registration number is JBX 62.

An interested individual may wish to follow this up, though as I mentioned it may well have been sold.

Good luck

Jerry
Jerry Birkbeck

Jerry,
You could have bought the ist YB for roughly the same figure a couple of weeks ago till somebody with mg connections mentioned it was worth a fortune!! now with it heading towards 10 plus by the time you have replaced every thing that ages over forty years in a barn it will become quite a pricy YB
John UMG624
JC Jebb

Jerry YB 1262 is also for sale on the Octagon club website and in the club magazines. £10,500 with a Peter Edney engine rebuild.
http://www.mgoctagoncarclub.com/Cars-For-Sale/cars-for-sale.html
P W Vielvoye

Chance of a lifetime, i have just found out due to some very sad circumstances YB1407 will be up for sale shortly.This once ugly duckling (see picture)has during the last four years been turned into a magnificent swan.
John UMG624

JC Jebb

John,
I've query regards your last post. What's you offline contact address please?

Richard
R E Knight

Richard, mgyb@btinternet.com will get me
John UMG624
JC Jebb

The ugky duckling coming out, not the best of photos but you can see the work thats been done !!
John UMG624

JC Jebb

The Swan Arrives,if anyone is interested in the Swan i have loads more pictures i could email not all perfect but showing the amount of work which has gon into the car, mgyb@btinternet.com
John UMG624

JC Jebb

I forgot to add the badges on the front of the car will be staying with the present owner. There is hardly a thing on the car that has not been either replaced or reconditioned during the 4year rebuild'
John UMG624

JC Jebb

This car is on the market Price £20.000 sounds a lot but whoever buys should have a car which will last for years without anything other than routine servicing costs.owners phone no is 01324720761
John UMG624
JC Jebb

That's an awful lot of money for a Y saloon!
Though no doubt someone might be prepared to pay near that. Interestingly I don't think that Barry Walker has sold the £35k YT yet. Frankly if I had £20k to purchase an MG then I would look round for a good and usable TC for slightly more but I haven't so it's all academic!

Anyhow good luck to the potential purchaser of the Y and hope to see him/her at future Y events.

From damp Warwickshire - and it supposed to be summer!

Jerry
Jerry Birkbeck

Jerry,

Concur, be like winning lottery to get someone to part that much for good saloon that is 100% genuine, in my opinion.
Took my YB on 66 mile run yesterday evening as it had forecast todays wet weather, not stopped all day apart from the small break between downpours.

Richard
R E Knight

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