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RE: MG BGT engine number

To: "'bugide@juno.com'" <bugide@juno.com>,
Subject: RE: MG BGT engine number
From: Randy Rees <randyr@starwave.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 13:58:57 -0700
Oh sure now I remember.. I saw one of those column shift MGB's a few
years back.. seems it also had a Jag V12 in it, came from the factory
like that, front wheel drive too!.

>-----Original Message-----
>From:  bugide@juno.com [SMTP:bugide@juno.com]
>Sent:  Saturday, April 26, 1997 6:39 AM
>To:    barneymg@juno.com
>Cc:    Randy Rees; todd@nutria.nrlssc.navy.mil; larryhoy@juno.com;
>mgs@autox.team.net
>Subject:       Re: MG BGT engine number
>
>Barney-
>       I'm a Bugeye goofy as well as an MG afiencidendo.  In the course
>of researching Bugeyes, I noted the "center gear change"  applied to them
>as well.  This nomenclature is to distinguish them from the far rarer
>column shift MG's and Sprites.  You have probably never seen one of those
>examples.  Damn rare vehcles!!
>       Glad to help you out!!
>
>Larry Dickstein
>bugide@juno.com
>
>
>On Sat, 26 Apr 1997 03:34:41 EDT barneymg@juno.com (Barney Gaylord)
>writes:
>>
>>On Fri, 25 Apr 1997 17:03:50 -0700 Randy Rees <randyr@starwave.com> 
>>writes:
>>>xxx-WE-x-xxx means center gear change
>>
>>Sometimes it dawns on me that I haven't lived long enough yet.  So 
>>I've been wondering for years, what does "center gear change" mean.
>>
>>Barney Gaylord
>>1958 MGA with center gear change

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