paulplom wrote: ↑Fri Aug 12, 2022 5:24 am
I wonder if that's my mates old general lee. You didn't get a pic of the rear lights by any chance?
His had four round ones which I though looked odd.
I think that makes your mate’s one a 1968 , like the one in Bullit. If I was going to make a movie/telly rep out of a Charger that’s the one I’d go for, complete with infinite hubcaps.
Re: That awful colour MGB GT
Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2022 10:06 am
by NorfolkNWeigh
Did that A40 pickup have something meaty under the bonnet to back up those mean looks?
Re: That awful colour MGB GT
Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2022 10:23 am
by SiC
Didn't see it start up or move, so I don't know.
Re: That awful colour MGB GT
Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2022 10:38 am
by mercrocker
V5 says 1800 so probably MGB?
Re: That awful colour MGB GT
Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2022 1:09 pm
by PhilA
That's about right. Those big blocks are so understressed that they're really quite quiet until you punch the gas.
Trouble with a really well balanced exhaust like that is it sounds like a Morris Minor when it idles.
The exhaust on my 8 sounds like that also.
Alter the length of a few of the header tubes and you get the familiar geblub-geblub-geblub idle you associate with an American V8.
Re: That awful colour MGB GT
Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2022 1:17 pm
by SiC
There was this custom Hotrod too that was quite cool. Unfortunately I stopped filming just as he blipped the throttle. Hence the cut half way through. Again didn't bother originally uploading it.
Re: That awful colour MGB GT
Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2022 1:45 pm
by mercrocker
Got some history, that, it was about in the Seventies and I'm pretty sure featured in Custom Car magazine when I was still at school!
Re: That awful colour MGB GT
Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2022 1:50 pm
by PhilA
Certainly a better turnout of cars than any get-together I went to when I was living there.
Re: That awful colour MGB GT
Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2022 2:00 pm
by SiC
mercrocker wrote: ↑Fri Aug 12, 2022 1:45 pm
Got some history, that, it was about in the Seventies and I'm pretty sure featured in Custom Car magazine when I was still at school!
SiC wrote: ↑Thu Aug 11, 2022 9:53 pm
Went to a local car meet tonight. Very busy and all sorts of different tin on show. I was actually the only MGB there!
I definitely have an oil leak. This was the state when I arrived.
Which is pretty bad considering I only did about 30 miles. Coming home left quite a mess. Can't actually see where it's leaking from on the oil cooler.
Lovely Triumph Vitesse.
Re oil cooler. Just get rid of it. Modern oils don't need it.
