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The news achive contains a history of all the news items from the what's new section of the homepage.

June 07

The page for June  2007 has been added and covers the renovation of the seats

March 07

The page for March  2007 has been added and covers removal of engine & gearbox, and suspension from the chassis together with stripping down the engine.

02/09/06

The page for September  2006 has been added and covers removal of the body from the chassis.

27/05/06

The page for May 2006 has been added using a new Windows based website provider. The site was on the limit of the old providers capabilities and was giving too many errors whilst uploading updates.
The last five months have been spent on fitting the doors and catches in order to finalise the bodywork alignment and fairing.

15/12/05

The page for December 2005 has been added tackling the passenger side wing repairs and door alignment issues. A lot of progress made towards being ready to get the body off at last.  

30/06/05

The page for June 2005 has been added after a long delay which shows a step-by-step guide to restoring the wings and problems I encountered. 

01/01/03

The page for December has been added which shows a step-by-step guide to restoring the doors. I have also found some photos of the car before it came to us.

20/12/02

A new Google search has been added to the links section of the website which allows you to search for particular things to do with our restoration project. This will be far more useful when there's more stuff to search through, but I hope it helps!
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Search WWW Search www.mga1600.btinternet.co.uk

4/11/02

October (and probably November too) has been a quiet month in terms of restoring the car. Tom has returned to uni and Graham is currently on a business trip in Tunisia. Look out for the next report expected around the end of December!

27/9/02

The September dairy page is now online. This month has involved generally cleaning the car out and preparing body panels for restoration.

31/8/02

The final wing panel was removed today! The next stage is to reinforce the remaining body panels so that they can be lifted off without being distorted. 

26/8/02

The Barber MGA Website goes online and is now a proud member of the MG Webring.

25/8/02

The rear right wing has succumbed to repeated attacks by angle grinder!  

22/8/02

By grinding the remaining wing bolt heads, the left front wing was removed amid clouds of rust.

18/8/02

The left rear ring was removed by sawing the bolts and hacking through bodged areas of fibreglass. Unfortunately this also involved the left door sill disintegrating!
Both doors were removed by drilling the heads off. This provided much deserved relief to the groaning door pillars.
 

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Last updated: 28/07/2007 .