I love to see things as they were, too. But should we encourage the
creation of a new V8 engined MG-TD? Or should we insist that it had to be
that way in the period? I tend towards it has to have the history to run as
a modified car to that extent. (same goes for recreations of Sebring
Sprites, BTW).
Brian
At 10:48 PM 7/4/98 -0400, you wrote:
>John Roper wrote:
>> You guys are assuming that just because you aren't familiar with it, >
its somehow strange or wrong. When I got my first TD in the fifties,
>> the flat head V860 was a well known conversion.
>
>Agreed. And Skip Gunnell, now of Florida I believe, had a TD with a
>small block Chevy that ran C-Mod in the '60s. Jack Meilan (sp?) had a
>big Healey with a Chevy that raced with us regularly at about the same
>time. Both were fast and dependable club racing cars. As a just barely
>converted hot rodder I applauded them then, and I'd love to see that
>Ardun MG now. It can race with me any time.
>RossFos
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