Isn't it a shame that if we want to see an MGF driven in the U.S.A. this
summer, we have to stand in a dry lake under a hot sun to see it?
Mike Ellsworth
71 Midget
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> From: Paul Hunt <paul.hunt1@virgin.net>
> To: Kai Radicke <mowogmg@pil.net>; mgs@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: MG Land Speed Record
> Date: Monday, June 16, 1997 5:11 PM
>
> Kai Radicke wrote:
> >
> > Hi everyone:
> >
> > What is the land speed record for ANY MG body based car?
> >
> > I don't care if it has a Viper V10 in it, all it has to have is a MG
body.
> > I am not talking about the MG EX185(1) or whatever that reached 251
MPH, in
> > like 1959.
> >
>
> Coincidence, or what?
>
> Not about past records but possible future ones. Opened MG Enthusiast
> that arrived today, turned to page 5 to read "MG returns to Salt Flats
> with MGF for Bonneville speed week".
>
> Briefly, a modified MGF will attempt speeds of around 200mph at
> Bonneville in August. The car is described as a 'Longtail', 1.8i VVC K
> series, turbocharged and running on a mixture of methanol and
> nitrous-oxide. The car will be driven by an American, a member of a USA
> Land Rover franchise. The attempt is described as 'not supported by the
> Rover Group but has its blessing', but the opening paragraph calls the
> attempt 'an independant project by Rover engineers at Gaydon'.
>
> PaulH.
>
>
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