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Re: MGs could've been taken over by Aston-Martin

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Subject: Re: MGs could've been taken over by Aston-Martin
From: Max Heim <mvheim@attbi.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 13:10:37 -0800
Hmmm... doesn't look like you'd get much cooling through that 1" high grill
opening... and it's still sitting way too high off the ground. I wouldn't
think AM would have stood for that look for long --- decidedly inelegant.

on 1/29/02 7:24 AM, Paul Root at proot@iaces.com wrote:

> The book was saying that many always thought the windshield on
> the roadster was too low for the proportions of the car and so
> putting the GTs windshield on helped it's appearence. I disagree.
> I think it looks fun. Just like the Datsun Roadster when they
> raised the windshield in 1968, it always looked funny to me,
> since
> my brother had a 67 1/2.
> 
> I think this car looks a little funny because of the two-tone
> paint.
> 
> 
> I like the bumper and grill much better than what I have.
> 
> It is the O-Series Engine. The B-Series just couldn't keep up any
> futher with emissions. Because of the dizzy apparently couldn't
> be
> kept in proper tune for extended periods.
> 
> The 0-Series sounded like a nice engine, too bad BMC and BL would
> never fund any development.
> 
> Dan DiBiase wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks, Kai...  Whew, thank God they didn't bother producing this...
>> Wonder what, besides the hood, is under the 'hunchback'??
>> 
>> --- "Kai M. Radicke" <kmr@pil.net> wrote:
>> so here it is...
>>> 
>>> http://www.pil.net/~mowogmg/mg/amartin.jpg
>> 
>> =====
>> Dan DiBiase
>> Dayton, NJ
>> '76 MGB Tourer (Driver)
>> '65 MGB Tourer (Project)
>> http://members.home.net/dibiase/Working_MG_Gallery.html
>> NAMGBR #5-2328

--

Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires

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