Hello all,  I am new to the MG world I purchased a Modern Classic model built in the early 80’s.  The history of this car is as follows.  It was purchased as a running rolling car by an older couple.  After th man died the lady put it inot storage and forgot about it.  She died some years later and the storage unit was auctioned off with all the contents from estate sale to estate sale.  It was finnaly revived buy a lady in Ft. Worth, Texas when she found it in storage.  At that time after 20 years everthing was locked down tight.  She had it restored with a few upgrades to the suspension and brakes.  She then showed it at a few car shows and won several events.  It was then sold to the privous owner who took it off the show room and started to drive it as a daily fair weather driver.  I purchased it thursday of last week, some 4 1/2 yeasrs after being found in a storage unit.  The gelcoat has oxidized and will need to be reworked.  Some of the crome will need to be replaced, and other parts will need some TLC.  I have been online looking for help finding parts for a week.  Through google search I have found myself reading posts from this forum several time.  I thought I would join to see if I can get some hints as to what, where, when adn how to get this car back to the showroom.

I have a car show tomorrow that I am going to enter it in as a “in progress.”  Given I am starting from a once trophy car I hope to be able to make it better.  It is a VW powerplant, but unknown actual type because it does not have a serial number on the block.  best guess is a 74 Ghia rear end and VW bus steering and front clip.  I am going to go through the entire car from front to back to find out what I have under the skirts and then I will plan the restoration of my replica. 

I do have one item that has already confused me.  The top.  I purchased one from Moss motors and placed it on the car without installing the snaps to see if it was going to fit.  after taking some measurements and trying to streatch the material I came to the conclusion not to install it and send it back.  I am still waiting to see if I get a full refund.  The car has a 3 bow top that has a wood front piece and attaches to the wind shield with 2 pins and thumbscrews.  The top that was on it was torn and missing the entire middle, from the windshield to the last bow.  I have what was left of it in my garage.  I will post pics tomorrow after the show as I am going to take more pics there.  Will have more detail about the top then too.

Thanks for the posts they have already helped me.  I hope to talk to some of you through questions and answers later.