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1. 4WD MGB (score: 1): Author: Kai Radicke <mowogmg@pil.net>; Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 09:15:44 -0400; Has anyone on the list ever thought about building a 4 wheel drive (4WD) MGB? Could you just rob an old Rover of its drive train and the modify the MGB body shell to accommodate the transfer case, et; /html/mgs/1997-08/msg01617.html (7,563 bytes)
2. Re: 4WD MGB (score: 1): Author: mil76@juno.com; Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 10:43:51 EDT; I don't know about 4WD, but when I was in England three years ago, the fad was to build "Monster Truck MGB's" by raising the suspension and putting huge truck tires on the car. I think you'd be laugh; /html/mgs/1997-08/msg01630.html (8,240 bytes)
3. Re: 4WD MGB (score: 1): Author: Kai Radicke <mowogmg@pil.net>; Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 10:47:25 -0400; Picture was in the 1997 May Road and Track around the end of the magazine. I think that thing was in Florida. Kai; /html/mgs/1997-08/msg01631.html (7,428 bytes)
4. Re: 4WD MGB (score: 1): Author: gofastmg@juno.com (Rick Morrison); Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 19:33:49 EDT; Only one question; WHY??????? Rick Morrison 72 MGBGT 74 Midget; /html/mgs/1997-08/msg01681.html (8,213 bytes)
5. Re: 4WD MGB (score: 1): Author: Kai Radicke <mowogmg@pil.net>; Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 19:56:44 -0400; Why not? You can go offroading in a convertible...it is the coolness factor. Kai; /html/mgs/1997-08/msg01682.html (7,498 bytes)
6. Re: 4WD MGB (score: 1): Author: bugide@juno.com (Larry Dickstein); Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 23:27:51 EDT; No, in fact you couldn't! It takes a great deal of modification for the Rover V8 and SD1 transmission to go into the early cars (not so much in the later ones) and, simply, there probably isn't the; /html/mgs/1997-08/msg01697.html (7,910 bytes)
7. Re: 4WD MGB (score: 1): Author: Philip <mgworld@chp.ltd.uk>; Date: Wed, 27 Aug 97 08:09:49 +0100; John Hill MGB Centre built one using Range Rover V8 mechanics in the early 1990s. Daft or wot? It had oversized wheels and sat about 3 feet off the ground. And people say the MGF is too high! There's; /html/mgs/1997-08/msg01715.html (7,998 bytes)
8. Re: 4WD MGB (score: 1): Author: Adam Howarth <ahowarth@fl.net.au>; Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 19:43:01 +1000; A 4WD drive B would be the ultimate in traction - thats is presuming that it would be race oriented and not off road oriented. The trans would create more friction, but far more traction. Subaru have; /html/mgs/1997-08/msg01720.html (8,581 bytes)
9. Re: 4WD MGB (score: 1): Author: Matt Liggett <mliggett@bluemarble.net>; Date: 27 Aug 1997 08:52:49 -0500; In fact, an English engineering company did build something like this (though I think it was on a modified MGB body with no chassis) as a demonstration of ability. It was weird and impractical but ne; /html/mgs/1997-08/msg01734.html (7,850 bytes)
10. Re: 4WD MGB (score: 1): Author: Rich Mason <rmason@ro.com>; Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 10:53:27 -0500; You really want to do topless off-roading - get a jeep or if you want to look cool - chop the roof off a Blazer - but don't desecrate a lovely MGB!!! Cheers, Rich Mason '73 MGB Huntsville, AL _______; /html/mgs/1997-08/msg01756.html (7,672 bytes)
11. Re: 4WD MGB (score: 1): Author: Philip <mgworld@chp.ltd.uk>; Date: Wed, 27 Aug 97 16:41:22 +0100; Sadly, the John Hill car was an off-roader. There's no accounting for = I wouldn't pick a Subaru as a good example of a 4x4 for roadholding. = The superb Lancia Integrale springs to my mind =AD the b; /html/mgs/1997-08/msg01771.html (8,415 bytes)
12. Re: 4WD MGB (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 16:28:27 -0400; The Jeep you'd be cutting up to do it is probably already a convertible. As for off roading without a roll bar, entirely unadvisable. (unless your idea of off roading is an unpaved driveway) -- Trevo; /html/mgs/1997-08/msg01786.html (7,374 bytes)
13. Re: 4WD MGB (score: 1): Author: Paul Hunt <paul.hunt1@virgin.net>; Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 20:19:04 +0000; There are a small number here in the UK mostly using short Land Rover chassis with V8 engines. One tackled the tank circuit at Duxford in 94 - and lost! PaulH.; /html/mgs/1997-08/msg01864.html (7,405 bytes)

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