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1. 1275 vs 1500 in a RB Midget (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 06:43:37 -0800; The official reasoning behind dropping the Triumph 1500 into the rubber-bumper Midget in '75, if I recall correctly, was that the increased displacement was needed to compensate for the increased wei; /html/spridgets/2006-01/msg00046.html (7,610 bytes)
2. Re: 1275 vs 1500 in a RB Midget (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 10:21:42 -0500; The other reason may be to compensate for the power loss due to increasing emissions equipment requirements. Cheers, Mike Thompson; /html/spridgets/2006-01/msg00047.html (8,500 bytes)
3. Re: 1275 vs 1500 in a RB Midget (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 07:41:10 -0800; Hi Mark, I'm pretty sure the reason for the 1500 being used instead of the 1275 was the 1500 had already been certified by the EPA for the then US smog requirements. Cleaning up the 1275 emissions an; /html/spridgets/2006-01/msg00049.html (8,936 bytes)
4. Re: 1275 vs 1500 in a RB Midget (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 09:47:25 -0800; No attacks from here, but an idiosyncratic point of view. I thought the RB 'B was an abomination, but I kind of like the RB Midget. Maybe because the first time I walked into a BL dealer was in '76.; /html/spridgets/2006-01/msg00054.html (8,530 bytes)
5. Re: 1275 vs 1500 in a RB Midget (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 13:20:41 -0600 {sentby:smtp 192.190.246.2 authed with dbl@chicagolandmgclub.com} with any abuse report; And yet another reason that I have heard is that, faced with the expense of making two engines of similar application comply with the US emissions nonsense, BMC decided to standardize on the larger; /html/spridgets/2006-01/msg00060.html (8,449 bytes)
6. Re: 1275 vs 1500 in a RB Midget (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 13:44:37 -0600 {sentby:smtp 192.190.246.2 authed with dbl@chicagolandmgclub.com} with any abuse report; Oops, I thought I had read all the replies, but I missed Paul A's. At least there is no shame in agreeing with Paul ;-) of the; /html/spridgets/2006-01/msg00061.html (8,750 bytes)
7. Re: 1275 vs 1500 in a RB Midget (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 15:43:55 -0800; This is closer to the truth. The idea that BL did something only because they were "forced to" by EPA or DOT doesn't cut it. There had to have been some bad BL decision making mixed up in it. :-( Mar; /html/spridgets/2006-01/msg00071.html (9,067 bytes)
8. Re: 1275 vs 1500 in a RB Midget (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 05:24:19 -0800; Guy, and all, I can understand why a Sprite owner would dismiss RB Midgets. But from the MG side of things, RB Midgets account for something like 2/5 of production, and more than a third of the Midge; /html/spridgets/2006-01/msg00094.html (9,793 bytes)
9. Re: 1275 vs 1500 in a RB Midget (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 9:07:03 -0500; My first LBC was a '76 MGB in '78. Everyone was saying "I bet you wish you had a chrome bumpered MG!", but truth be told, I loved that car. My only planned mod was to lower the suspension. ( The car; /html/spridgets/2006-01/msg00098.html (9,140 bytes)
10. Fw: 1275 vs 1500 in a RB Midget (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 09:20:50 -0500 FILETIME=[CB7D6A80:01C61139]; http://www.barrett-jackson.com/events/scottsdale/vehicles/cardetail_list.asp?id=183125; /html/spridgets/2006-01/msg00099.html (10,120 bytes)
11. Re: 1275 vs 1500 in a RB Midget (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 09:26:20 -0600 {sentby:smtp 192.190.246.2 authed with dbl@chicagolandmgclub.com} with any abuse report; http://www.barrett-jackson.com/events/scottsdale/vehicles/cardetail_list.asp?id=183125 Dave, Description says "Original, never retailed", but it makes you wonder why there is a rollbar and a non-sto; /html/spridgets/2006-01/msg00101.html (8,971 bytes)
12. Re: 1275 vs 1500 in a RB Midget (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 11:09:09 -0500; That is the stock steering wheel for a 79. But it does nt even have the roof rack, let alone the canvas. Larry -- Larry Macy 78 Midget Keep your top down and your chin up. Larry B. Macy, Ph.D. macy@b; /html/spridgets/2006-01/msg00103.html (9,986 bytes)
13. Re: 1275 vs 1500 in a RB Midget (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 11:13:17 -0500 FILETIME=[817410F0:01C61149]; I have a 79 and the steering wheel appears to be the stock one. It would be interesting to see if a new one came with the thrust washers in the bottom of the pan. :) Dave Camp http://www.barrett-jack; /html/spridgets/2006-01/msg00104.html (9,532 bytes)
14. Re: 1275 vs 1500 in a RB Midget (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 11:23:18 -0500; The only problem with a new one is it takes a bit for the automatic driveway oiler to kick in. I can't imagine driving without it.; /html/spridgets/2006-01/msg00105.html (9,315 bytes)
15. Re: 1275 vs 1500 in a RB Midget (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 10:25:45 -0600 {sentby:smtp 192.190.246.2 authed with dbl@chicagolandmgclub.com} with any abuse report; My bad, the steering wheel is correct, but the questions about the roof and the rolbar still pertain ;-) David Lieb 1972 RWA Midget; /html/spridgets/2006-01/msg00106.html (8,922 bytes)
16. Re: 1275 vs 1500 in a RB Midget (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 11:28:06 -0500; But, it isn't listed as "new", as Mr. Lieb points out, only 'never retailed'. It may have been raced by a dealer?; /html/spridgets/2006-01/msg00107.html (9,313 bytes)
17. Re: 1275 vs 1500 in a RB Midget (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 08:28:44 -0800; My '70 was my daily driver in Maine from 1980 to 1987. Forty miles each way on I-95, rain, sleet, snow, or shine. I drove my wife to the hospital in that car and drove her and my son home. Bolted the; /html/spridgets/2006-01/msg00108.html (9,647 bytes)
18. Re: 1275 vs 1500 in a RB Midget (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 18:40:26 GMT; Nothing really "wrong" with the RB cars at all....just don't compare them to the earlier ones and you're all set.....I mean they're still fun to drive, for sure. The stock Spit running gear is fine f; /html/spridgets/2006-01/msg00122.html (8,860 bytes)
19. RE: 1275 vs 1500 in a RB Midget (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 14:15:37 -0500; I bought my '72 Midget (the one I'm currently driving) in '82, for $500, to use as a "winter rat". Of course, I went completely through the electric and hydraulic systems, to correct the previous gro; /html/spridgets/2006-01/msg00124.html (10,780 bytes)
20. Re: 1275 vs 1500 in a RB Midget (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 11:33:11 -0800; Straightened wheels, balanced tires, new kingpins, pins, bushings and everything of that nature (springs). You could always see that there was something wrong with the car -- the bottom of the sills; /html/spridgets/2006-01/msg00126.html (9,395 bytes)

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