United States of GRIZZ - Just how random do you want it?

[Grizz]

So after the mystery of the envelope with insufficient postage, we had a confession.

But there is a story attached to it as you will see in the pics below.

My very good mate Fil (Sparkplug) had printed the label and posted it out.

WITH A POSTAGE STAMP ATTACHED.

It seems the Royal Fail (Mail for patriots) changed the cost of postage so many times that they also issued completely new postage stamps with modern barcodes.

The obsolete stamps can/could be traded for new but clearly both Fil, me and many others were not aware.




So Fil posted his gift cunningly disguised with a printed envelope so I could neither recognise nor guess who from. And Royal Fail needed to get the extra few pennies postage had gone up in the mean time, sending out a card to say my tax for the transgression was to be paid before they re delivered. Bastards in any language.








So now at least the next keeper will know when the service was done and what was dealt with.

[Grizz]

What rear wheel drive, chassis UK cars run a 91” wheelbase and has around 60” width.

Yes….. for a rebody with a monocoque style 1970 MG B Roadster body.

[Hooli]

LR 90 with a prop removed for economy?

[Grizz]

LR 90 with a prop removed for economy?

Thank you.

A bit of digging and recalling of history reminded me tht the MX5 was based on British sports cars.

Pretty close too.

So there is some potential with a lot if effort.

[Hooli]

I'm sure I recall reading the MX-5 development team drove MGBs daily to understand British sports cars better.

[Grizz]

I'm sure I recall reading the MX-5 development team drove MGBs daily to understand British sports cars better.

I thought so too.

Seems Wikipedia doesn’t agree.

Manufactured at Mazda's Hiroshima plant, the MX-5 debuted in 1989 at the Chicago Auto Show and was conceived and executed under a tightly focused design credo, Jinba ittai (人馬一体), meaning "oneness of horse and rider". Widely noted for its small, light, technologically modern, dynamically balanced and minimally complex design, the MX-5 has frequently been called a spiritual successor to 1950s and '60s Italian and British roadster sports cars. The Lotus Elan was used as a design benchmark.

[Hooli]

Hmmm...... and wiki is always true right?

[DodgeRover]

You would need to hang everything off the mgb monocoque to make it legal though, the mx5 spine doesn't really count as a chassis for rebody purposes

[Grizz]

Hmmm...... and wiki is always true right?

LOL.

Maybe not.

[Grizz]

You would need to hang everything off the mgb monocoque to make it legal though, the mx5 spine doesn't really count as a chassis for rebody purposes

I know they have been combined before.

Problem is of course that to me the fun lies in the build.

So, like the Rezin Rockit, once built, tested, MOT’d I lose interest.