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[Alex_B]

Oh no, you're one of them! I used to work in an MG based car restorers and geez the amount of branded tat you could get! And the owners that would wear every item they owned when driving said Mg, especially when visiting the garage to buy a lightbulb or another keyring!

anyway if you're an MG nut whats wrong with the A, I quite like them, the twincam coupe would be my choice if I had one!

[Shifty]

I love the mga!! It should never be compared to a Triumph!!

I've had several gt's and Midgets, plus an AH Sprite!

(I also nearly bought an MG tent once!!)

[Alex_B]

Oh I see missed the link with a triumph, incidentally I quite like triumphs too and a gt6 is on my wishlist

[Shifty]

A gt6 eh, Hark those Herald axles wing!!

[surfblue63]

I had a 1973 MGB roadster years ago, what a pile of junk. Slow, cumbersome, heavy, gutless, bone shaking, etc etc. I got rid of it after a couple of months and got myself an Alfa Romeo Alfasud Sprint.

By the way, I'd rather have a Triumph TR5 than an MGA.

[Tamworthbay]

I drive a MGB gt as a daily driver. I love it. You need to be able to handle a car to get the most put of it. If you expect a modern car you will be disappointed. If you can't handle rear wheel drive cars you will hate it. But if accept it for what it is - a 50 year old design then they are great. A few simple mods make all the difference. It is completely opposite to a mini in lots of ways but brilliant all the same. And the acres of space under the bonnet make a welcome change from the knuckle scraping fun of working on a mini.

[Shifty]

Yup, I love driving MGBs as well!!

(and Spridgets as well)

[surfblue63]

PS Did I mention that I had my MGB 30 years ago. It was a slow, cumbersome pile of junk back then. The GT is probably a lot better to drive as it won't suffer from the horrendous scuttle shake that the roadster suffers from (well mine did).

[JustSteve]

Look too much like a Triumph for me!!

Are you crazy shifty? Triumphs are far more beautiful

[cradley-heathen]

I'd have a javelin, the Jupiter doesn't do it for me though.

agreed shifty, i like the javelin too.

it has to be said they are great names though, jupiter, javelin, blackbird (see, the japs wernt the first to use that name!) flying fox, and the errrrrr .........

weasel (oh well, the reast are good names!)

[CMXCVIII]

PS Did I mention that I had my MGB 30 years ago. It was a slow, cumbersome pile of junk back then. The GT is probably a lot better to drive as it won't suffer from the horrendous scuttle shake that the roadster suffers from (well mine did).

Thirty years ago [thirty one actually] I drove an MG-B down to southern Spain and suddenly it was in its element and it was just wonderful!

We cruised over the Sierra Nevada at 4 in the morning with the roof down and the distinctive exhaust burble reflecting off the adobe walls! It reminded me of the old line about a 4-cylinder Bentley that 'fires once every lampost' as it rolled along at about 2000 rpm in overdrive top!

By the way, there was no scuttle shake whatsoever although, of course, my mate had to tell me after we left London for Dover that the clutch had started slipping so I had to nurse the old bit of BL rubbish all the way!

Last Christmas I seriously considered buying a 1960s B-GT to smoke around in and really fancied it but thankfully the vendor changed his mind because later this summer, when he offered it to me again, the rust was breaking through a treat!

And anyway I'm being offered two different Roadsters! The real trouble is that the nicely restored one is turd brown with deckchair upholstery [obviously it's a rubber bumper car] and the other, much older one hasn't yet completely decided whether it wants to leave its 85 year old one owner from new!

[CMXCVIII]

I had a 1973 MGB roadster years ago, what a pile of junk. Slow, cumbersome, heavy, gutless, bone shaking, etc etc. I got rid of it after a couple of months and got myself an Alfa Romeo Alfasud Sprint.

My Sprint Cloverleaf was, and possibly still is, about my favourite car ever! You could get five or maybe six people into the little coupe and I kept it in preference to not one but two Porsches! In spite of it having a master cylinder failure on the M1!

I was heading for Kirkby Mallory at a serious speed when I hit the brakes for Junction 21 and all that happened was the pedal went to the floor and the cockpit filled with the smoke of brake fluid burning off exhaust pipe!

"Hmm", I thought, "I wonder what Junction 22 is like at this time of year!?"

[CobraV8]

There is a couple of these jowetts in new zealand that used to turn up to a big classic race meeting each year. I know they are old, but my god they were slow and boring to watch. Each to their own I guess.

[surfblue63]

I had a 1973 MGB roadster years ago, what a pile of junk. Slow, cumbersome, heavy, gutless, bone shaking, etc etc. I got rid of it after a couple of months and got myself an Alfa Romeo Alfasud Sprint.

My Sprint Cloverleaf was, and possibly still is, about my favourite car ever! You could get five or maybe six people into the little coupe and I kept it in preference to not one but two Porsches! In spite of it having a master cylinder failure on the M1!

I was heading for Kirkby Mallory at a serious speed when I hit the brakes for Junction 21 and all that happened was the pedal went to the floor and the cockpit filled with the smoke of brake fluid burning off exhaust pipe!

"Hmm", I thought, "I wonder what Junction 22 is like at this time of year!?"

The Alfasud is one of the car I wish I still had. When I got it it was just 8 years old with 33,000 miles on the clock. The front wings, sills and rear arches had been replaced. It was a car that could really fly along and the noise from teh flat four was amazing. It did suffer from fuel starvation under hard accelleration and the car had a tendacy to swop ends under hard braking. It also leaked water into the cabin during heavy rain, but once you got behind the wheel on a twisty B-road all that was soon forgotten, a bit like a Mini really.





I eventually sold it to fund a Cal-Look VW!!

[surfblue63]

PS Did I mention that I had my MGB 30 years ago. It was a slow, cumbersome pile of junk back then. The GT is probably a lot better to drive as it won't suffer from the horrendous scuttle shake that the roadster suffers from (well mine did).

Thirty years ago [thirty one actually] I drove an MG-B down to southern Spain and suddenly it was in its element and it was just wonderful!

We cruised over the Sierra Nevada at 4 in the morning with the roof down and the distinctive exhaust burble reflecting off the adobe walls! It reminded me of the old line about a 4-cylinder Bentley that 'fires once every lampost' as it rolled along at about 2000 rpm in overdrive top!

By the way, there was no scuttle shake whatsoever although, of course, my mate had to tell me after we left London for Dover that the clutch had started slipping so I had to nurse the old bit of BL rubbish all the way!

Last Christmas I seriously considered buying a 1960s B-GT to smoke around in and really fancied it but thankfully the vendor changed his mind because later this summer, when he offered it to me again, the rust was breaking through a treat!

And anyway I'm being offered two different Roadsters! The real trouble is that the nicely restored one is turd brown with deckchair upholstery [obviously it's a rubber bumper car] and the other, much older one hasn't yet completely decided whether it wants to leave its 85 year old one owner from new!

With all this praise that everyone is giving the MGB I guess mine must have been a bad example.

Given the choice I would hang on and wait for the older one to become available, 'because Russet Brown, deck chair seats and rubber bumpers just looks wrong.