Jon, you are holding out on us...
(aka Tabor World Headquarters).
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>First, my cars:
>71 MGB GT
>70 MGB GT
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>Now, the rest:
>70 MGB GT
>59 AH Bugeye Sprite
>64 Saab 96 (2 stroke)
>67 Saab 96 (2 stroke)
>another 67 Saab 96 (2 stroke)
>That might be it. Hrm...I must be missing something...
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I think there was a black wrex when I last visited...
>Anyone have a Rover V8 they want to give me for one of my
>MGBs?
OK I saw the SAAB collection and most of the others but the MG and AH group escaped notice... very stealthy.
Forget the Rover-V8 unless you are just going for resto...
Ask me about the "Cobra with roll-up windows" next time we get together.
At the time it was a marriage of T-boned Hertz 350 Mustang and telephone pole pickle-forked MGB roadster. 302hp with 4-spd was 50 pounds lighter than the 4 cylinder, closer to 50/50. Fiberglass hood with low profile L-88 Corvette style bubble for the carb. I retained the MGB diff, with Ford u-joint on front/MG on rear... broke two Ford joints over time, not one MG!
Not exactly a sleeper because of the header ping even through two big turbo mufflers. Four-bolt Mustang rims all around with the biggest 14-inch radial available at the time, and it all fit under the wheel well.
One of the car mags did a feature on this conversion (not mine) following a television show in the late '60's loosely based on a Simon Templar/James Bond character.
It was a sweet little car, that ran Thunderbird in 1971. (One of my dumber decisions)
not just all subies all the time ;-)