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Re: [Mgs] Sabrina

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Subject: Re: [Mgs] Sabrina
From: Max Heim <max_heim@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:38:42 -0700
Oh, come on... The concept is the same: prominent paired frontal
protrusions. The difference is that hundreds of thousands of the bumpers
were seen on multiple models on several continents, but only (what?) maybe
half-a-dozen of the twincam Triumph engines were seen, only in racing pits.
So it's not surprising that many more people are familar with the bumpers.

As for the purported resemblance, well, the bumpers are certainly more
prominent than those cam cover ends (conical though they may be), and you
don't have to pop the lid for them to catch your eye...

--

Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires



on 8/20/09 8:26 AM, Barrie Robinson at barrie@look.ca wrote:

> I knew the term "Sabrina" was given to something more like her
> superstructure!   How on earth the name was mistakenly applied to
> those SQUARE shaped rubber bumper things beats me!!  Now had they
> been silicone.................
> 
> 
> At 08:51 AM 8/20/2009, Alan Costich wrote:
>> I know I'm a little late on this, but, someone mentioned Sabrina and TR6
>> in the same sentence.
>> In the TR world, Sabrina was the nick-name given to an overhead cam TR
>> engine. Supposedly
>> there were only a few of these built by the factory for LeMans cars.
>> See:
>> <http://www.tr-register.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=15524>
>> and
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Regards
> 
> Barrie
> (705) 721-9060 
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