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Re: help me identify this GT

To: Florrie & Allen Bachelder <bachldrs@swva.net>
Subject: Re: help me identify this GT
From: Carl Elliott <grunt2@adelphia.net>
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 19:22:26 -0400
Good luck with the GT, I love mine, Carl E.

Florrie & Allen Bachelder wrote:

> Evangelos -
>
> The quickest way to tell is to look at the tail lights.  If there is curved
> sheetmetal conforming to the curve of the bottom of the tail light housing,
> it's a chrome bumpered car.  If the sheetmetal below the tail light is
> flat, leaving the tail light housing "hanging out", it is a rubber-bumpered
> car.  Conversion RB-to-chrome is possible.  I know VB sells the little
> curved nose pieces to fill in below the tail lights.  One has to alter the
> bumper mounts front and rear.  Of course then you have to lower the car
> 1-1/2 inches to make it look right.  Can be done but it's a pretty big job.
>
> Allen
>
> From: "Evangelos G. Makris" <emakris@hol.gr>
> >
> >I have just discovered a white LHD MGB GT in salvageable
> >condition.
> >
> >However, it has no bumpers at all so, is there a way that
> >I can positively say if it's a rubber or chrome bumper body?
> >
> >If it turns out it's a rubber bumper, are there kits for
> >converting it to chrome bumper generally available (by who)?
> >
> >Engine says 18GG-RWCH-1747x (can't make the last digit out)
> >
> >Thank you
> >Evangelos
> >
>
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