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I found this article about the MGB on a website called British Sports Cars.

I have no idea what it means but had a good laugh anyway.


British Sports Cars specializes in the Information, service, repair and restoration

Classic Cars – The MGB GT

Throughout its eighteen year assembly activity the MGB was a adorable adult searching little roadster, with a low glottal engine and a close cockpit added evocative of a apple war two fighter.

When aboriginal launched in 1962 the two seater MGB looked and acquainted actual avant-garde and went on to epitomise a added average chic appearance of the ‘swinging sixties’. The car was of advance congenital on solid time honoured MG virtues and class, and for the a lot of allotment of its construction, adopted from its forerunner, the now abundant approved afterwards MGA.

Built at Morris Garages in Cowley Oxford, the engineers took the MGA’s B alternation 1492 cc engine and re-bored it to the abundant above 1798 cc, and by applicable it into the aforementioned bulk of engine amplitude as the MGA aloft the achievement of the MGB to a advantageous 94 bhp. This gave the sports car a actual active achievement with a top dispatch of 103 mph. The MGB could do 0 to 60 in 11.4 seconds. The engine had affluence of torque in the college apparatus and it was acclaimed for the cars anticipated road-holding, you could bandy it about corners afterwards accident ascendancy clashing abounding added sports cars of the time, which fabricated the MGB accepted with both adolescent and old alike.

In the summer of 1965 if The Byrds were Number One in the UK Music charts, MG launched the awful adorable and affected MGB GT fastback coupe.

The beautiful curve of the MGB GT were advised by Carrozzeria Pininfarina whose Italian aggregation had aswell produced designs for Peugeot and Ferrari.

The GT featured a rear bear door, what could technically be alleged a 2+2 rear seat, which was so baby a dog had adversity sitting in it, and was generally adapted with a covering sunroof. The added bodyweight meant that the GT’s low end dispatch was not as acceptable as the MGB, about its by itself aerodynamic appearance and curve gave it a top dispatch of 106 mph.

Production of the MGB connected beneath the advocacy of the nationalised BLMC or British Leyland as it was accepted from 1968, but the MGB accustomed poor investment, admitting it getting Britain’s top consign car to the US bazaar for abounding a year.

In 1973 afterwards abundant appeal from enthusiasts British Leyland fabricated a aboveboard attack to backpack the MGB GT with a abundant added aggressive bite and adapted the car with Rover’s 137 bhp 3.5 litre V8 engine!

Suddenly the bizarre adult of british motoring could ability a top dispatch of 125 mph and do 0 to 60 in an absorbing 8.4 seconds. In abounding means the MGB GT V8 could affirmation to be Britains aboriginal ‘hot hatch’!”

The new admixture engine advised about forty pounds beneath than the old B alternation agglomeration and the administration was abundant improved. Sadly, sales of the car were poor as its abundant ammunition burning did not augur able-bodied with the oil crisis and petrol administration that were occurring if BLMC launched the car.

In 1975 all MGBs were accustomed those rather cruddy atramentous polyurethane bumpers or fenders to be precise. They were in fact installed to accommodated US assurance standards. All added changes to the MGB GT were aswell as a absolute aftereffect of getting so accepted an consign to the US and included the ride acme getting aloft to accommodated US headlight standards and a individual carburettor and catalytic advocate were added to all US models to accommodated austere emissions standards. This, abominably for those active them in the US, bargain the bhp to just 62 with a best top dispatch of 90 mph.

The final MGB formed off the assembly band in 1980 and by again the car had awash over bisected a million. Throughout that time the additional duke bazaar for the MGB and GT was as able as it is now with actual top demand. Buying an MGB today is not above the pockets of abounding and as if new, the archetypal MGB and the MGB GT still charcoal affordable and is decidedly accepted with new collectors of sports cars.

Did I drop some acid before reading that ..... ? :lol:

I was somewhat intrigued by the idea of a 'rear bear door'. :rofl:

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It looks like it has been translated into Chinese and then back again.

David Aiketgate wrote: I was somewhat intrigued by the idea of a 'rear bear door'. :rofl:

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I reckon a bear wrote this story....... As its "bearly" readable. :lol: