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Re: MGA Coupe Racer

To: mgs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: MGA Coupe Racer
From: WSpohn4@aol.com
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 00:27:33 EDT
In a message dated 8/23/02 8:21:09 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
owner-mgs-digest@autox.team.net writes:


> I guess body stiffness doesn't count for anything on a body-and-frame car?

Very little, if any.

> 
> On the other hand, a BGT should be massively stiffer than a B roadster, and
> have decent aerodynamics (if slightly more frontal area), so it seems like 
> a
> reasonable choice.
> 

A lot more frontal area, if you remove the windshield on the convertible (a 
roadster has sidecurtains, a convertible, which the MGB is, has wind-up 
windows.)

Bill

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