- 1. How crash-worthy is an MGB? (score: 1)
- Author: "James J." <m1garand@speakeasy.net>
- Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 04:46:39 -0400
- A little off-topic, but has anyone here ever crashed an MG, or been t-boned? I've read in a million places about how the MGB is a really strong, and over-designed car,but that was 1962, and other th
- /html/mgb-v8/2003-10/msg00039.html (9,248 bytes)
- 2. RE: How crash-worthy is an MGB? (score: 1)
- Author: "Robicheau, Mike" <MRobicheau@contactpsc.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 07:08:38 -0500
- Being t-boned in an MGB would not be good. Late model doors do have a large reinforcement beam in them. I believe your odds are better with one of these late model doors. All, A little off-topic, but
- /html/mgb-v8/2003-10/msg00043.html (8,329 bytes)
- 3. RE: How crash-worthy is an MGB? (score: 1)
- Author: "Scott Regel" <Scott.Regel@dpra.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 08:25:54 -0500
- I had a 63 B that I got hit almost head-on at 60 MPH. He crossed the line and was almost to the shoulder when I swerved to miss him. The impact destroyed the front of the B. I put my head through the
- /html/mgb-v8/2003-10/msg00045.html (8,760 bytes)
- 4. Re: How crash-worthy is an MGB? (score: 1)
- Author: "Telewest \(PH\)" <paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 16:21:11 +0100
- Dunno about being T-boned but full fontal is (rotten sills permitting) very strong. The Chief Medical Officer for the MG Car Club meetings at Silverstone for some years documented a case where an MGB
- /html/mgb-v8/2003-10/msg00046.html (9,978 bytes)
- 5. Re: How crash-worthy is an MGB? (score: 1)
- Author: Barrie Robinson <barrier@bconnex.net>
- Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 13:00:22 -0700
- I read somewhere that the MGB was the first car to be crash tested and passed with flying colours At 04:46 AM 10/21/2003 -0400, James J. wrote: All, A little off-topic, but has anyone here ever crash
- /html/mgb-v8/2003-10/msg00047.html (9,706 bytes)
- 6. Re: How crash-worthy is an MGB? (score: 1)
- Author: "JJJ" <m1garand@speakeasy.net>
- Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 13:43:46 -0400 (Eastern Standard Time)
- Thanks to everyone who shared a tale. It doesn't sound like it had the same propensity for explosions as the pinto did, which is a good thing. It also seems very survivable if in a head-on collision.
- /html/mgb-v8/2003-10/msg00048.html (8,609 bytes)
- 7. Re: How crash-worthy is an MGB? (score: 1)
- Author: "James Nazarian" <jhn3@uakron.edu>
- Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 19:49:00 -0400
- I had a friend that got rear ended in a 78. He was stopped at a light and an explorer hit a stopped suzuki samurai going 45mph and the samurai hit him. It wrinkled the rear end a bit and they had to
- /html/mgb-v8/2003-10/msg00049.html (9,823 bytes)
- 8. RE: How crash-worthy is an MGB? (score: 1)
- Author: "Dodd, Kelvin" <doddk@mossmotors.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 10:27:12 -0700
- Not at all off topic. Some of us still want to commute in our cars and how safe they are in an accident is very important. My 65B was rear ended by a VW bus on the freeway. I was stopped and the bus
- /html/mgb-v8/2003-10/msg00053.html (9,697 bytes)
- 9. Re: How crash-worthy is an MGB? (score: 1)
- Author: "Carl Floyd" <cmfloyd@chartertn.net>
- Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 08:15:28 -0400
- Don't know if this helps any, but you did mention horror stories. Rick Ingram sent this to me: <<Attached is a photo of the 1979 MGB that was involved in the fatal accident a couple of weekends ago i
- /html/mgb-v8/2003-10/msg00056.html (9,463 bytes)
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