- 1. Why both MGBs and Midgets? (score: 1)
- Author: rdonahue@holli.com (Robert J. Donahue)
- Date: Thu, 2 Nov 95 22:20 EST
- Why did MG make two different sports cars? The MGB is bigger than the Midget but it is not exactly a land yacht. I own an MGB but know little about the Midget. Bob Donahue " 50s FOREVER " rdonahue@ho
- /html/mgs/1995-11/msg00048.html (7,072 bytes)
- 2. Re: Why both MGBs and Midgets? (score: 1)
- Author: thorpe@kegs.saic.com (Denise Thorpe)
- Date: Fri, 3 Nov 95 10:52:34 PST
- Bob Donahue wondered: There are people on this list who can give you an intelligent answer to that question -- I'm not one of them. But I can tell you that the MG Midget is not a recent idea. Friends
- /html/mgs/1995-11/msg00059.html (8,154 bytes)
- 3. Re: Why both MGBs and Midgets? (score: 1)
- Author: Len Bugel <bugel@miranda.fnal.gov>
- Date: Fri, 3 Nov 1995 13:18:31 +36000
- Indeed let's not! When VW closely followed by Chrysler 'invented' the hatchback in the '70s, they sold like hotcakes -- the 1100 was ahead of its time. Len Bugel '50 TD
- /html/mgs/1995-11/msg00061.html (7,328 bytes)
- 4. Re: Why both MGBs and Midgets? (score: 1)
- Author: Jeremy DuBois <jer@thlogic.com>
- Date: Fri, 3 Nov 1995 14:20:33 -0500 (EST)
- Unless I'm mistaken, most of the sports cars, including all the T series cars, up until the MGA were all Midgets. Jeremy DuBois Programmer/System Administrator Thermalogic Corporation
- /html/mgs/1995-11/msg00062.html (7,743 bytes)
- 5. Re: Why both MGBs and Midgets? (score: 1)
- Author: wzehring@cmb.biosci.wayne.edu (Will Zehring)
- Date: Fri, 3 Nov 1995 14:21:55 -0500
- Well, as the Divinitides used to say, "When the student is ready, the teacher will appear." Of course it can only be a guess (what else?), but... the way I figure it a bunch of guys in gabardines dec
- /html/mgs/1995-11/msg00063.html (8,187 bytes)
- 6. Re: Why both MGBs and Midgets? (score: 1)
- Author: Railroad@gnn.com (Glen Wilson)
- Date: Sat, 04 Nov 1995 02:22:17
- But seriously, Bob... The British auto industry went through several stages of "recombination" a la British Motor Corp (BMC), British Motor Holdings (BMH) and British Leyland (Leyland made trucks). S
- /html/mgs/1995-11/msg00080.html (9,875 bytes)
- 7. RE: Why both MGBs and Midgets? (score: 1)
- Author: "Anthony Bauman" <abauman@msn.com>
- Date: Mon, 6 Nov 95 02:36:19 UT
- This brought back a scary memory from my very first LBC. A Sprite.. I can't remember the year of the old girl but it was the first year AFTER the bugeye ('62?) I was driving home one late evening in
- /html/mgs/1995-11/msg00108.html (9,095 bytes)
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