Hear, hear!
Maybe it's not the same as chrome cars. Big deal. BMC and BL were
too cheap to replace it when it should have been replaced. What'd it
get us? 25 years after the B, MG is still struggling to survive.
Maybe the 68 would do a tiny bit better in an autocross. Maybe it
would be 1/2 car length ahead in a drag race. Maybe it would win
every concours over a rbb. So what. A 91 Civic Si would blow the doors
off of both cars, with 6 bags of groceries in the back and 2 kids in
the back seat.
The point is, they are still fun cars to drive.
I had a '72 back when. Now, I have a '77. I found a good solid car, with
no rust and a good engine. And I'm working from there.
Paul.
Bill Saidel wrote:
> I've had enough of rbb bashing. I am terribly pleased with my '76 rbb
> because I don't know any better. My '76 is the first one I bought and if
> my SO has her way, the last. It serves me as I want it to and all you
> '67 fans are expressing what?
>
>
> Yes, in the world of $$$, '67 will bring in more, but then you won't
> have the car. I have mine to drive and it drives reliably. I've modified
> it with antisway bars and with HIF's. Purist I am not, but I never
> intended to be. Yes, it still is higher than a '67 and it still gives
> me room to make it more mine (rebuilt engine with larger bore in the
> future). So I still wonder what's the point of bashing...?? to say, in
> response to US government dicta, MG debilitated a fine car into a good
> car? So what!
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