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RE: Bonnet Compatibility

To: "'Paul Hunt'" <paul.hunt1@virgin.net>
Subject: RE: Bonnet Compatibility
From: "Dodd, Kelvin" <doddk@mossmotors.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 09:48:26 -0800
Cool!

        I love LBCs there is something new to learn every day.  Now I have
to trot off and check out the part numbers etc.  

        I do know the RV8 bonnet will fit a regular MGB.


Kelvn.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Hunt [mailto:paul.hunt1@virgin.net]
> Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 10:38 AM
> To: David Councill; mglist
> Subject: Re: Bonnet Compatibility
> 
> 
> Not quite.  When the factory V8 came out it had a special 
> bonnet/hood to
> clear the carbs.  Then the standard bonnet/hood was given a greater
> curvature so that it would fit all cars.  Makes three part 
> numbers in all.
> 
> PaulH.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Councill <dcouncil@imt.net>
> To: mglist <mgs@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 7:59 PM
> Subject: Re: Bonnet Compatibility
> 
> 
> > Frank,
> >
> > One way to be sure would be to check the catalog. A quick 
> check of my Moss
> > catalog confirms that a hood is a hood, 62-80, B or BGT. Except for
> > material (steel vs. aluminum) but the shape remained the same.
> >
> > David
> > 67 BGT
> > 71 BGT
> >
> > At 01:42 PM 3/29/00 -0500, Frank Krajewski wrote:
> > >David: My concern is for the interchangeability of a BGT 
> hood/bonnet with
> a
> > >roadster hood/bonnet. I assumed all Mk. I bonnets are 
> compatible but I
> wasn't
> > >certain about the GT. As a matter of curiousity, are all B roadster
> > >bonnets the
> > >same? from 1962 to 1980?
> > >Frank "Swamp Yankee" Krajewski
> > >http://www.bmcne.com
> >
> >
> 

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