MG Quiz

So to try to fill in the incorrect answers from above:

1b) MG 1100

2) Fitment of new wing mirrors 1967

5) 1969

1b Yes :yesnod:
2 No Look very closely around the front bumper area.........
5 Yes by Ken Costello

Damn. Just read the extra comment - so nothing to do with windscreen then!... Humph.

Tsleight wrote: Damn. Just read the extra comment - so nothing to do with windscreen then!... Humph.

No matey, although it was made higher on the GT

I would like to help you but can not give you any more indications........................................................

Was Number 2, the lead loading to panel seams omitted? (1975)


Did you know that Lawrence Wood has set up a website to re-unite the Costellos and has found about 30 so far of the 270 that Ken converted. Lawrence bought his Costello from an Epsom Club member. go to www.mgcostello.com

No sorry, it is a front thing

That is very intersting to know. I do like those cars and they were a true leap foward in performance

Did the original indicators have chrome surrounds and later ones plastic?

Not that but you are in the right area

Red Devil wrote: 1b Yes :yesnod:
2 No Look very closely around the front bumper area.........
5 Yes by Ken Costello

5. Ken's prototype Red MGB roadster fitted with an Oldsmobile 215 engine was finished in December 1969, the next conversion was a GT using the Rover P6 engine. Real production didnt start until 1970 when he set up the new company with 8 employees.

Electrics switched to negative ground 1968 and, therefore, bulbs instead of candles used in all lighting??

Mr Forgetful wrote: Electrics switched to negative ground 1968 and, therefore, bulbs instead of candles used in all lighting??

:woohoo: That is a superb answer, but i think it is wrong (still using candles!!!!)

Was it 1969 when the dyslexic one eyed Albanian (of Welsh descent) chrome grill fabricator was replaced by a trained “technician” and 18 grill uprights where put on both the right and left hand side of the central grill upright instead of 17 to the right and 18 to the left?