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1. Poetry and Proper Name.... (score: 1): Author: Dan DiBiase <dibiase@home.com>; Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 18:57:24 -0500; By the way, is my convertible MGB a "roadster" or a "tourer"? Or both? Dan D in literary Dayton, NJ 76 MGB Roadster; /html/mgs/2000-03/msg00636.html (7,504 bytes)
2. Re: Poetry and Proper Name.... (score: 1): Author: "Paul Hunt" <paul.hunt1@virgin.net>; Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 19:09:46 -0000; "Roadster" seems to be the usual definition, although I believe that was originally an American term. "Tourer" sounds much too relaxed for a sports car. "GT" originally stood for "Grand Tourer" or "G; /html/mgs/2000-03/msg00674.html (8,368 bytes)
3. Re: Poetry and Proper Name.... (score: 1): Author: "Neil Cotty" <neilc@apphosting.com>; Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 11:47:34 +1100; I'm pretty sure that MG's owners handbook, refers to the MGB as a Tourer. I go with MG. <G> From memory, the handbook for the A refers to it as a Roadster. I always thought that a roadster had no fi; /html/mgs/2000-03/msg00702.html (8,108 bytes)
4. Re: Poetry and Proper Name.... (score: 1): Author: Dan DiBiase <dibiase@home.com>; Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 21:02:11 -0500; Neil, you are correct... Just looked at my Handbook and sure enough! It says 'Tourer'! Dan D Dayton, NJ 76 MGB Tourer (standing corrected...); /html/mgs/2000-03/msg00709.html (7,744 bytes)
5. Re: Poetry and Proper Name.... (score: 1): Author: Skye Poier <skye@ffwd.com>; Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 11:43:29 -0800; This is one of those threads that never die :) I think it depends on what era you want your definition to be valid in; at the time, the MGB's comfort features would definately have placed it outside; /html/mgs/2000-03/msg00726.html (9,128 bytes)
6. Re: Poetry and Proper Name.... (score: 1): Author: Ajhsys@aol.com; Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 09:41:34 EST; << > Okay, the tally stands at - Tourer: 3 Roadster: 2. Interestingly I'm pretty sure that MG's owners handbook, refers to the MGB as a Tourer. I go with MG. <G> From memory, the handbook for the A r; /html/mgs/2000-03/msg00727.html (8,951 bytes)
7. Re: Poetry and Proper Name.... (score: 1): Author: John Steczkowski <stecz@Crossroads.com>; Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 23:14:06 -0600; In the owners manual 'verts are called tourers. That may be because roadsters have side curtains and a removeabe top. John S. --Original Message-- sports; /html/mgs/2000-03/msg00739.html (9,407 bytes)
8. Re: Poetry and Proper Name.... (score: 1): Author: "DENNIS COX" <djc@appsig.com>; Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 16:05:35 -0800; I'm not sure how to pronounce "tourer" So I call it the American name...; /html/mgs/2000-03/msg00750.html (7,852 bytes)
9. Re: Poetry and Proper Name.... (score: 1): Author: Charley & Peggy Robinson <ccrobins@ktc.com>; Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 08:28:46 -0600; When I called my insurance company to make arrangements for insurance on it I called it tourer - by the book - the insurance rep couldn't find the body style in her files until she came up with roads; /html/mgs/2000-03/msg00775.html (8,016 bytes)
10. Re: Poetry and Proper Name.... (score: 1): Author: "Paul Hunt" <paul.hunt1@virgin.net>; Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 19:45:51 -0000; That's easy - 'tourer'; /html/mgs/2000-03/msg00826.html (8,167 bytes)
11. Re: Poetry and Proper Name.... (score: 1): Author: "David Hill" <Davhill@btinternet.com>; Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 23:29:36 -0000; How about 'ragtop'? Can I Telework for you? See what I do, at... http://www.angelfire.com/biz4/davtel/index.html Troubled by a phobia? Know someone who has one? Go to... http://www.angelfire.com/de/u; /html/mgs/2000-03/msg00848.html (8,966 bytes)
12. Re: Poetry and Proper Name.... (score: 1): Author: Dan DiBiase <dibiase@home.com>; Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 10:07:32 -0500; Hmmm.. To me 'ragtop' says "big ol' 'merican convertible", like the '70 Ols Delta 88 ragtop (maronn ext, white top, white interior with the cool rear-seat speaker) that my Dad had for years.... Besid; /html/mgs/2000-03/msg00894.html (8,034 bytes)
13. RE: Poetry and Proper Name.... (score: 1): Author: Gordon Bird <gb@the-bdc.com>; Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 10:15:01 -0500; Saw a commercial for Miata where they are claiming to have re-invented the roadster. Since many think of the Miata as a modern day MGB, I guess the B would be considered a roadster, well.. maybe. Per; /html/mgs/2000-03/msg00895.html (8,451 bytes)
14. Re: Poetry and Proper Name.... (score: 1): Author: Dan DiBiase <dibiase@home.com>; Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 21:26:25 -0500; Didn't they supposedly use the exhaust note from an MGB when they tuned the exhaust system of the Miata? It seems to me I recall reading a detailed article on the development of the Miata (back when; /html/mgs/2000-03/msg00939.html (8,124 bytes)
15. Re: Poetry and Proper Name.... (score: 1): Author: Gonaj@aol.com; Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 08:43:05 EST; There are some other possibilities here. Maybe the Brits spent a lot of timr tuneing it but didn't write a book on the subject. or Maybe it's not the tone itself that is so great but that it became w; /html/mgs/2000-03/msg00952.html (7,577 bytes)

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