Jay Laifman wrote:
>
> It was a great weekend for a great car show. There were 4 Alpines,
> including mine, and 6 or 7 Tigers (Tigers all start looking the same after
> a while, I can't remember the exact count). One Alpine had a little Datsun
> engine in it. And Dave Sotero was there with his Alpine. Hat's off to
> Dave and getting his car running. I think the car has out lasted at least
> two girlfriends - and probably cost him more and gave him more frustration
> than the girlfriends! I guess there were probably 100 or so cars total
> (the usual MGs, TRs, Jaguars, Morgans, Minis, Austins, Austin Healeys,
> Jensen Healeys, Land Rovers [when did they start showing up at British car
> shows? Seems they are at all of them now], Maserati [some people just
> can't read I guess], Rolls Royces, Bentleys and TVRs.
>
> One scarey admission here. Back when the rubber bumper MGB first came out,
> I thought it was hideous and marked the end of beautiful fine chrome
> bumpered cars. Now, some 20+ years later, I actually think they did a real
> nice job, especially after looking at 20 years of butt ugly rubber baby
> bumper cars. They managed to flow both the look of the MG together with
> the rubber bumper. Don't worry. I'm not about to buy an MG. And if I
> were, it would certainly be full chrome, and more likely in the MG TC era
> (though my heart for swooping fenders belongs to one of Dick's past -
> SS100). Just thought I'd share a thought.
>
> Jay
Jay , I am totally against rubber over rides, for this simple reason. if
you ever have to set thru, a judging contest where they have MG's with
rubber and with out rubber youll go nutso
chuck
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