I decided to post this as the first of my Ongoing Project posts.  In the gallery below are some pics of my MG, before and after I started stripping the paint off the body.   I’ve attached comments to each photo to explain what your seeing.
This is a long, painful (mentally and physically) process, but the end result will be well worth the work.  By stripping all the paint off to the bare metal, I can see all the areas that need repaired.   Had I just chosen to paint over the existing paint, these flaws would have come out in the fresh paint job.
It goes back to the old saying I guess, ” Do it right, do it light; Do it wrong, do it long.”