January 15th, 2011 was the day I first saw the car, It was dusty, in an old shed where it had apparently sat since 1995. Overall it was in really good shape, the only rust was on the passenger side floorboard. The pass side front wing and hood had been damaged when a limb fell across it and the PO had obtained a replacement hood and had the wing straightened. The inner wing was still bent as was the latch slam panel. But everything was there and all original. I made a deal with the owner and plans were made to come pick it up the next weekend.
After crawling around, over and under the car, a couple good things came to light.... the car was equipped with a/c AND overdrive transmission!
Finding out that there were only 1251 BGT's imported to the US as 74.5 year models with rubber bumpers was a unexpected surprise.
The plans are to install a 3.9L all aluminum Rover fuel injected V-8 that I was going to put in my 74 roadster. I will change the color of the car and swap out the wires for alloy wheels, but the body will stay pretty much stock.
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