Might sound stupid to some but i admire people who spend money on restoring cars when its not financially worth it ....its good to do things just for the love of it ....great job adam 👏 👍

I'm 70 years old. The MGB is "the car" of my youth. Currently have a 72 Roadster and a 72 GT project car. I appreciate anyone who loves a particular car or era. You love what you love. It doesn't have to be perfect. Spend what you will. Enjoy your ride!

For 6k I'd expect my repaint to be absolutely perfect.

Still got my MGBGT after 35 years ownership, it wasn't my first car though. Love sitting in it and playing my 80s tapes. I do drive it round the block occasionally 🤣

After 60 years as a Petrol Head I can safely say that a well turned out MG B is a joy to behold and a thing of deep enduring beauty.

Thank you Adam for the amazing videos over the years, you have recently inspired my new first car which is also a red MGB! I'll hope to see your car at Adamc fest and keep up the wonderful content ❤

Enjoyed this one mate! Would be great to see a trip down memory lane with the MGB. Putting the new engine in the Alfa after the truck is done and I hear Olly is doing work to the GT6 too. Dare I say a three classic's reunion?

I feel for you Adam. I have a 1972 MGB that my dad purchased about a year before his death. I'm in about $17k USD right now. I didn't expect to pay that much for the restoration. However, I had a bare metal restoration completed and engine rebuilt. I still have to finish the wiring, external body parts, interior etc. to go. I think I'll be well in over $20k before I'm done.

Money well spent. It’s what ever makes you happy 👌🏻 can’t put a price on happiness

17k for a MGB ....I have heard worse.... my 72 VW squareback custom panel van now owes me about 10k.. mostly on new engine & front disc conversion.....but have done bodywork, respray interior & most of the work myself...so no labour cost...!! It's not just about the money & it's value when finished....it's for the love...we'll done Adam on the MGB, it looks great, drive it, enjoy it & be proud that you helped keep another classic on the road 👍😀 ....keep up the great videos & maybe if you're really unlucky, our paths may cross one day 😅🤪🤣..

Great video, really enjoyed it. A beautiful car for sure. But a few things at the end really blew my mind. 1. £6000 for a respray with minor runs/imperfections, for that price it really should a perfect finish. 2. A company fitted a new exhaust and its blowing? That should be fixed for free my man! 3. It definitely pays to do whatever jobs you can yourself to save labor. The ignition barrel, bonnet stay, and head cover are good DIY examples that can be done for no skill. I'm starting work on my 71 MGB this weekend, so thanks for the content, and again beautiful car.

Very interesting watch! I'm in the process of fully restoring my Dads MGC GT and the costs are getting crazy! Good call on the stainless bumper, they look great! I'll be getting some ordered after watching this!

I think your previous trimmer was sniffing the glue instead of using on your car .

Currently restoring and fixing up my first car which is a mk3 golf gti spent just over about 7k wire brushing waxoyling underneath, full outside respray new front fenders coilovers etc new wheels some interior bits and outside extras. Different skirt as well and all plastic was colour coded and resprayed. Looking good but i completely agree i know every blemish and mark that bothers me just trying to accept it will never always be 100% and it is my daily as well so cant complain in all honesty. Loads more to do but a project takes time and you appreciate it all the more because of it.

Quite the little transformation ..that interior Looks stunning 😍 😍

Brilliant video Adam, very interesting, car looks amazing now👍🏻, love how the wind was holding the paper against your leg🤦🏻‍♂️ made me laugh😂🤣

A wonderful job. I am looking forward to purchasing my first car and an MG B is definitely high on the list

The car looks amazing and they did a really good job getting the interior fixed properly.

That's actually great, well worth it. Remember, many people are spending £20k renting a car for 3 years or buying a car for £10k and trading it in for £3k 3 years later. You've fully restored a classic to nearly new condition and spent

Looks amazing Adam and as you said it’s not about the money but the sentimental value 😄👍🏻, enjoy your beauty

Your front wings literally cost my birthday... 120995... never seen my full birthday appear anywhere. The mg is starting to look really nice again after a second interior refurb

ya did a great job on that little car . it looks soo nice now . i love it now you can enjoy it for years to come

Fab video, thank you for sharing on total car restoration costs.

Love this video and REALLY love the MGB :) I think you are a smart man with a great outlook ...

£4K to have a classic car in good condition for 3 years sounds good value

I am also currently trying to restore a 1970 mob gt, she doesn't run yet and I have a few things left to do in the bodywork and the interior but man has it been a joy learning how to fix a gorgeous rolling piece of history.

Looks a really smart MGB👍, funny you mention the seat problem, I had exactly the same issue when I rebuilt my seats, so frustrating to be banging your head on the roof!!

Friend of mine resto’d his mk2 golf, £35,000 in parts alone, he done all the work himself including the respray so saved some money there, labour 4 nights a week for 5 years solid

My family have always owned classic ,bikes ,cars,vans whatever and like Adam has found out it"s a bottomless pit if you want a minter and and superfussy with something in mild metal that has suffered the weather and salt for many years . Lots of ways of saving money - don"t rush into buying the first cars that might come along ,take your time buying the right car ,buying the correct parts and get to know local experts ,trimmers ,painters and any petrolhead who you know locally . Some courses at night school ,if your really keen to stay with classics may help ?. My own 70s M.G.b is about 90 % original ,bought off a family that loved and cherished it and gets loads of admirers very time I go out . Never been welded ,original wings , sills etc and in White , every bill with the car with 70,000 + on the clock . When I bought it it needed a heater blower switch ,a iffy pull handle door lock ,a sticky starter & duff window washer ,but it was stood on a plinth in a sports car showroom since 2019 .But parts were reasonable and there are lots of M.G. specialists . I was offered the car originally for £ 5,000 but knit picked and got it for £ 4,600 a year ago . I also have 2000 P6 Rover and parts for that are silly and a Triumph TR7 mechanical parts are cheap but body parts and lights are expensive ,but it"s faster and corners better & nicer to drive than my M.G.b but doesn"t look as good and seems to have been put together by unemployed Russian plumbers .But if your happy with the car - job done ?.

The MGB is just such a good looking car 🔥🔥

I've had seven Bs, of which only one was a roadster. They are great cars and very practical, as long as there's just two of you.

I have an old MGB (1973, I think). I figure I could spend $10,000 restoring it and I would have a pretty good $5000 car.

Lovely project got her looking proper fresh. Money well spent like you said it has sentimental value and value will just keep going up so will soon meet what you paid all in. Atleast now you know you’ve got many more years ahead with it now 👍🏻

Only 25k views? Im preaty disapointed with the comunity of this channel Adam is everything about new cars and old cars And a video of a restoration is allways amazing Cheers adam amazing content and dedication

Glad you didn't add it all up before you started, would hate to see it ran into the ground. Looks awesome, great job!

I've spent a fair bit of money restoring a Puma, way more than what its worth, but I couldn't have done it myself, the people who completed the works did an amazing job, plus it's a hoot to drive, so it all gets forgotten!

Great job and spec, you just love this car Adam its worth it…..enjoy👍

Great informative video, at the start i was thinking, thats not expensive, then when you got to the respray, the tally was getting high ! ITs a keeper for sure, and it will pay you back the money - eventually. Look after it, store it in a dry garage. Keep up the great content.

I own a mk2 golf gti & a 205 gti that i have owned before and bought back to save them 👍i feel your pain, would have been raging at the first trimmers. One of the best mgb in the country now though 🥳

Classic car owners sometimes get too hung up with resto costs and present market price. Meanwhile 98+% of cars on the road were bought for far more than their present depreciated value, almost every other car on the road is "underwater" to a worse degree. Another way to think about "underwater" classic car ownership is they hold value MUCH better than the other 98% of cars on the road, as they're likely past the trough of their depreciation curve. If you're not in a rush and want to learn, doing the work yourself will take a lot longer, but will make classic car ownership comparatively inexpensive.

I bought a fully restored '78 MGB Roadster with up-grades (suspension, brakes, Sebring conversion) for £6000 last year because the idiot who restored it didn't bother taking photo's or keeping the invoices. It's like it rolled off the showroom floor this morning. As an Engineer, I thoroughly checked her out beforehand, and am happy that all the work has actually been carried out and the replacement parts and up-grades are actually that. I've had several BGT's and have never had a problem with headroom, and I'm six foot two.

keep up the good work Boss..

loved the video where did you get that air freshener from i have been trying to find them for ages

Makes me feel a bit better pumping 14.5k into a GTST.

I got the exact same car with the same exact mods the same exact color same year everything just in America. Love the fact you post about this car you’re one of the only ones and it makes me so happy since it’s my favorite car and will stay with me forever

Nice , I enjoy videos on this car

Money well spent to keep her on the road and looking good Adam

Absolutely gorgeous

Nice video, lovely car🏁

Love the mg b gt my rover is going to get fixed miss it

You did very well, personal prides and joys shouldn't have a price....but those 6 Grand on the paint job 😱

Fair prices till the body shop and paint got involved

Think yourself lucky Adam - I bought a new set of LED indicators for my Triumph Street Triple last week - £320 - yes just a set of little indicators!!! Eye watering.

Classics > supercars

The car looks fantastic.

Using wind to stick a long peice of paper to the body is just such an Adam c thing 🤣🤣

Keep it up

My dad has a Rover P5B original unrestored luckily

3:09 Oh wow a pocket bike where can I find & buy one? 🤓😲🚲

Had ya knickers down with that re spray

Restoration in Italy are extremely expensive but we have The best car restorers of the world

HI ADAM

Well worth it though such a great car

Oh my goodness the rebuild cost pennies compared to a Merc SL 😆

What's the song called @3:45?

I’ve not seen a 180/240SX in years and you just spot one trotting around on your bike? You have the car spotter luck! ALSO A FEU ORANGE!! Hahahaha!

wow, 6k never expected that much for a re spray.

You can go into a dealership and buy a new car with no character or you can blow a tonne of cash on having fun and a car with a soul! Worth every penny

Absolutely fabulous restoration Sir. Worth every penny if it has sentimental value for you. I'd certainly put a tuned racing exhaust on it tho. Give her a nice growl to woo the Ladies and all. I bought my 1969 MG GT from a kid who'd inherited it from his Grandpa who'd restored it beautifully. New leather interior, leather roof liner and that beautiful big wood steering wheel. He sold it because he wanted to buy a Ford Fiasca of all things. I replaced the horrible original rear scissor shocks with adjustable spring assist air shocks. The rear tires wide Dunlop Qaulifiers and the front tires skinny Dunlop Quakifiers. Added a few other items to stiffen the handling like custom sway bar in front and rear. She handled like a champ in corners. Even better than a Corvette. I never did install the Buick V6 engine kit you could get back in 80's tho. It came with a complete wiring harness to replace the horrible Lucas one. A drive shaft fitted for the engine and Buick rear axle and differential. Plus the engine, Buick 4 speed tranny and radiator relocation mounts. I had seen one that had the engine, Buick 4 speed tranny and rear end installed in it and the owner had taken me for a ride in it and it ran like it was built for the race track. I seriously miss that car. Right up there with my first year Evo Harley Sportster I'd had the engine race built including balanced and blueprint, Wisco hemi pistons, Andrew's close ratio gears, Kevlar clutch and other goodies to numerous to list. It had Connie 125 mph rated tires on it.

That is a small car and 6k for painting is a lot 😅 I want to respray my vw golf mk1 but I think I have to do it myself 🤣

At the end of the day. 20k on a car you own and love. Or 20k down the drain for that PCP whip all the boyz down asda have…

That’s not a bad price tbh , the last one I did for a customer was £45,000 in total although arguably once finished there wasn’t really much of the original car left. Looks good that though

Suspension is "a bit American". I am so going to use that from now on. 🤣👍

Off-topic, I just spotted you parking your Cobra on another video covering last Sunday's meet in Weybridge. Didn't realise it was yours at the time as I had turned up late. I was in the silver 911 Turbo opposite the entrance... and parked facing the wrong way because I'm like that. 😅 I did see you drive off - nice sounding car! Wanted to say how much I enjoy your videos and I think you're the only car spotter vlogger that I follow as the others are pretty boring, even the more famous ones. Are you attending the Pistonheads meet in two weeks?

Bloody hell! My roadster will top out at about £3k fully restored. That includes the purchase price, though all the labour is my own.

what do you do for a living ?

It's a lot of money but if it's your passion and your bills are paid, what's the problem? Enjoy the car Adam, you won't care about the cost as time passes.... and you still get to sit in it :)

I bought my 77B for $3200, I've put about 12 grand into it thus far and its still nowhere near completion. Its a never-ending project.

Does not matter what you spend on a car if you are keeping it and it's sentimental

I noted wings £1209, I think i paid £59 each for mine in 1987 - JWL 650N

ITS OKAY MRS JENKENS!

Same price as my 2 series wow

Im semi restoring a saab 900 and im already approaching the £10k mark.. 😩🤔

Don’t beat yourself up too much! The car is obviously a keeper and you’ll get many years of enjoyment from it. It’s a lovely restoration and you should be proud of it. P.s. I can empathise with the costs as I’m a TVR owner!

3:45 - Taking editing hints from SRUK lol I'm making the hard decision between a Lotus Evora and a house currently...and my girlfriend is indecisive so the car is looking appealing

Nice work keeping a classic on the road. Only thing id say the respray was abit over priced

No price on love. I've had one or two cars ive spent more than its worth in the market.👍🇦🇺

$17k to restore but I bet you smile every time you drive it. Don’t get that feeling in a new $17k car.

I've calculated 40 to 50k to do my astra how I want it.. I couldn't give a shit if people tell me that's not worth it but the thing means the world to me and never going to sell it Might be a while doing that resto I guess..

Great car, you got a lot done for the money...

Hi, who did the bodywork

Now, some decent fast road suspension and the engine stripped again and race prepped, if will all feel worth it. 😜

🤩✌

Love the old classics .... they did a grate job man...... end of the day, if you put that thing in you are just gonna die :/. Grate motor tho, they are grate little things;)

That’s the issue with the B’s, only the Pull-handles are worth doing up if you want money back. Think some chrome wire wheels Adam would really make they Red pop!

hi A great restoration ALWAYS takes MORE time and MORE money than planed . But the best way to restore now is body 100% stripped and chemically dipped ,ALL high dollar resto`s are now done this way . Reflected in the resale . You can always tell a dodgy &/or an incomplete resto because the defects show . Congrats u have done the car justice ,well done ...

Would take it straight back

MGB GT Massive Garage Bills Given Time

If it makes you happy, why not.😁

GT`s are getting much harder to find compared to convertibles these days...especially nice ones.