Getting started with a bit a everything

I started taking things off the B and labled them. It was getting a little daunting when you see the rust under the seats and the wheel wells. I ordered the replacement panels from Proper MG. It only took 8 weeks to get here. I was not impressed. During the wait, I worked on a bunch of other stuff. The wheel and tires were a mess as you can imagine. I bought a cheepo sand blaster from Northern tool. I sand blasted the wire wheels to bare metal and put 5 coats of wheel silver with 3 coats of clear. I bought new inner tubes and along with the nice set of Dominator II touring tires from Discount Tire and they look great! The Dominator II seemed to be the best tire for the price ($54 each) I cut out what I could and welded new panels on. Banged out some dents and smoothed over with fiberglass and such. The engine condition was unknown. I removed the spark plugs and poured Mystery Oil in them. I turned the engine by hand every now and then. It seemed to loosen up after a while. I removed the radiator and flushed the heck out of it. I replaced the water pump, hoses, and fittings. I flushed, reversed flushed, flushed, and reversed flushed the engine block until nothing came out but clear water. I didn’t bother too much with the heater since I live in San Antonio. I bypassed the heater core directly to the heater valve. I had to replace most all brake components, lines and hoses and master cylinder. The clutch cylinder and slave were frozen by dried brake fluid. I cleaned them out real well and replaced all the seals with kits from Victoria British. The fuel delivery system was shot. I replaced everything from the tank to carbs. I’m using a Carter fuel pump from O’Reilly’s. I originally wanted to keep the car as stock as possible, but the SU’s were annoying.