On Tue, 30 Dec 1997 20:25:37 -0800 Patrick Bailey <pbailey@qnet.com>
writes:
>>I think the main objection to the rubber bumpers,at least my main
>objection,is they are black!This makes the car look too big in the
>front.My solution was to paint them to match the car and the
>difference is amazing!
I saw a dark red car recently with this treatment. It is a major
improvement. It makes the car look more like an integrated design, as
opposed to an old design with huge bumpers strapped on.
>Next all the smog stuff can come off
Not in my area and many others.
>I would bet a good 79 B would out perform a MGA!
I think that depends on how they are set up, which "A" you mean, and what
you mean by "out perform." My Mark II MGA with a 1622 engine has more
horsepower in its stock configuration that a stock (smogged) 79 B. I
daresay it would go around corners better as well, if the 79 has its
original suspension, particularly since the Mark II came with a standard
anti-sway bar. However, a stock 1500 would have more trouble keeping up.
Of course, a CBB would blow the doors off either A. Of course as a
member of the Bill Easton Club of Self-Congratulatory MGA Owners
(BECSCMGAO), I must hasten to add that the MGA will LOOK _really_ good
while this is happening!
If you have the smog stuff off, added 70 series tires and tube shocks, I
can't see any stock A keeping up. But then, that wouldn't be fair, would
it? ;-)
To each his own pleasure and poison!
David Littlefield
Houston, TX
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