I agree 100 percent...they're (MGBs and other MGs) great cars.
BUT...if joe average were to look at the traffic on this list, he'd go
running for shelter. Especially the stories about Lucas, which I
remember thinking, "it can't be that bad," but oh my goodness. Posts
pleading for properly lighted instruments, turn signals that just fail
without any reason, and so on. I must admit they're not for the faint
of heart.
Most people aren't into cars, period. And an MG (an A, a T, a B,
whatever) requires more TLC than most. That woris always rewarded IMO,
but the average middle-age-crisis person who wants a car with no back
seat (for no other reason than no back seat) will never understand. Nor
should they.
Just my two cents - from someone who grew up with, and now races, modern
japanese appliance cars.
Pointparty@aol.com wrote:
>
> In a message dated 99-03-31 15:53:50 EST, you write:
>
> << e may not want to admit it publicly, but you can see he knows the MGB
> was an awful car. A decade old in the early 1970s, the B was, by the
> generally low standards of the day, poorly engineered, maintenance
> intensive, often unreliable, rather slow and quite uncomfortable >>
>
> What a load of cr#p! I've owned my current MGB GT over 15 years. It has
> been professionally maintained and renewed as required. The MG is cheaper to
> maintain than any of our domestic cars and we have had a bunch of them all
> purchased new from Saturns to Jeeps to Volvos to Cadillacs. The MG starts
> everytime, runs without complaint in town or on trips to the beach or
> mountains. (as long as I don't try to adjust the carbs.)
>
> Perhaps the MGB was not the most technically advanced or state of the art
> auto of its time. However it is inexpensive to maintain, fun to drive,
> reliable and MG owners are the classiest, most pleasant well adjusted folks
> around. The person responsible for the observations to which this message is
> a response, this sounds like a krautcar type. In the interest of civility, I
> deleted the adjectives that originally appeared describing a krautcar type.
>
> Mel Frank
> 1971 MGB GT
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Karl Shultz
95 Integra GS-R, black, loud
73 MGB, orange, only marginally drivable
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