Ha ha, that's a good question. The usual location of the spare on the B is
more-or-less behind the rear wheels on the floor of the trunk, but the
continental kit moves its center of gravity almost two feet to the rear, and
more significantly, probably 18 inches up. So that raises the roll center
and adds to the polar moment of inertia, both to the detriment of handling.
But somehow I don't think handling entered into the thinking on this
modification...
on 7/6/01 6:59 AM, Eddie Sheffield at esheffield@prizmail.com wrote:
> I don't remember if this was mentioned the first time this came around, but
> I wonder what effect the continental kit has on the handling? I wouldn't
> have even thought about it, but I was watching a show on Speedvision the
> other day talking about the new Thunderbird and they did a retrospective on
> the original ones. One thing I thought was interesting was how going to a
> continental carrier at one point on the old ones was apparently quite
> detrimental to handling. Too much weight shifted behind the rear wheels.
>
> Eddie
> 1971 Midget
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan DiBiase" <d_dibiase@yahoo.com>
>
>> Someone was recently looking for a picture of the wacky MG on eBay with
>> the LeMans-type nose and continental kit - it's back (surprise, surprise!)
>> at
>>
>>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=593102183
>
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