MG MGB GT Buyer's Guide
Five tracked MGB GT sales, £3,000 to £15,638, median £9,800, with three more live as we write. The GT is the fixed-head MGB, the practical one, and it trades to the same simple rules as the rest of the MGB market: chrome-bumper cars carry the premium over rubber-bumper cars, and structural condition sets the price within each camp. Our spread covers that whole ladder.
What to pay
£3,000 to £6,000 buys running cars with needs, usually rubber-bumper examples or chrome cars with welding ahead; the sills decide whether the price was fair. Around our £9,800 median sits the honest, sorted GT, and at this level the chrome-bumper premium is doing visible work. From there to our £15,638 ceiling the market buys the best chrome-bumper cars, restored or exceptionally original. The V8-engined versions are a different market entirely and should be priced from their own comparables, not from these.
What goes wrong
The sills are the structure, not the trim: an MGB's strength runs through its sill sections, castle rails and floors, and cosmetic oversills hiding rot are the oldest trick in this market. Check floors, spring hangers and the front wings' seams as well. The B-series engine is understood to the last washer, unstressed and rebuildable at sensible cost, and parts supply is about the most complete of any British classic; entire bodyshells are available new. Rubber-bumper cars ride higher and handle softer, which is most of the price gap.
Our view
Buy the best sills the budget reaches and let the chrome-or-rubber question follow. A solid chrome-bumper GT at our median is the classic-ownership starter kit: parts for everything, a club for every county, and usability the exotic stuff cannot match. It will never make anyone rich, and it will never leave anyone stranded for want of a part.
