stuny Posted February 7, 2012 Share #1 Posted February 7, 2012 Advertisement (gone after registration) While waiting for tires to be put on our car I looked down to the workshop and saw this scene of another customer's car. [ATTACH]299422[/ATTACH] Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted February 7, 2012 Posted February 7, 2012 Hi stuny, Take a look here An MGB gets a new set of tires. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
pauledell Posted February 7, 2012 Share #2 Posted February 7, 2012 Stuart, A neat view of a classic sports car. Paul Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rona!d Posted February 7, 2012 Share #3 Posted February 7, 2012 This late model we call "rubberboat" in Germany because of the ugly thick US plastic bumpers :cool: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted February 7, 2012 Author Share #4 Posted February 7, 2012 Paul - Thank you. Rona|d - Don't forget that MG also raised the entire car so that the bumpers would be at a US standard height, which must have impacted the handling as much as it did the looks. For some reason standard bumper heights and standard headlight heights have gone away in the US. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rona!d Posted February 7, 2012 Share #5 Posted February 7, 2012 Rona|d - Don't forget that MG also raised the entire car so that the bumpers would be at a US standard height, which must have impacted the handling as much as it did the looks. For some reason standard bumper heights and standard headlight heights have gone away in the US. Indeed, Stu, forgot about that. Sure that also make the car look "strange" to us who know the old model. A friend had one in the same color as the one in your photo. We were always kidding about that and said for a rubberboat the car must be raised, it´s an amphibian car. The standard bumper and headlight heights may have been introduced to protect the US car industry against import cars. I remember the Superbeetle (here 1303) which got a the rounded windscreen only for US export reasons. Shortly after it´s birth the law that a car had to have a certain distance between windscreen and drivers head faded away if I recall right. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Jackson Posted February 15, 2012 Share #6 Posted February 15, 2012 You must not forget "Lucas Prince of Darkness", who provided all of the electrical components and wiring for this little beast. My Austin Healy Sprite was a direct descendant of the MG, and was cursed with the same electrical gremlins. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted February 15, 2012 Author Share #7 Posted February 15, 2012 Advertisement (gone after registration) Bob - My '58 MGA coupe (roll-up side windows, locks on the doors, Lucas Flame Thrower driving lights) that I bought in '64 for $500 was of course as cursed as was your Sprite. Also, an angled piece of frame which was about midcalf when seated in the car privided a jet of water when going quickly through large puddles. My left leg still flinches when motoring through puddles in any other car. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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