On Sun, 15 May 2016 11:57:40 +0100, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

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Bob Eager wrote:
On Sat, 14 May 2016 15:31:37 -0700, tabbypurr wrote:

On Thursday, 12 May 2016 13:37:16 UTC+1, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Look: back in the day MGBS destined for the US market had air
pumps to add air to the exhausts to lower the ratio of CO* etc
etc.

They were not fitted to UK models

But the ride height was raised and those horrid bumpers were on UK
spec models. Ruining a once half decent looking/handling car.

Which knocks your argument into the middle of the Atlantic. Nothing
new there.

The MGB: show it a corner and it'll show you a ditch. As they used to
say all fur coat and no knickers.

You should have tried an MGC circa 1969. Even worse. Far too front
heavy.

Another weird BMC product. That boat anchor of an engine made it little
faster than the MGB and ruined the handling. Bit like the Austin 3 litre
versus the 1800.

And they had to put a bulge in the bonnet for a carb. I suppose that made
it look 'go faster'.

I was involved the pre-delivery service on one. Normally we de-waxed
(protective wax from factory) using steam, but it was a convertible so we
did it by hand. It was also tricky because the delivery drive had pranged
a wing. Our job was to get it into a state where the body shop could fix
it (I'm sure it was without the customer's knowledge) before delivery.
Said customer was a local brewery boss (I forget which one).

My boss on the car cleaning was a nice guy called 'Tom' Thomsett - he had
a yound actress daughter named Sally.



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