LWB MGB Roadster

[mercrocker]

I understood there were 3 types of frame on Bs but again I'm quoting from memory.....

"Packaway" type, grey "folding type" both up to around 1970 changeover to black grille I think and then what was referred to as a "Michelotti" type which was a black frame.

Plus that other thing I was on about but not likely to be one of them - statistically. I've also just diverted a late afternoon car cleaning session to a rake through 1960s Motor Sports looking for this blasted "family" hood thing!

[LynehamHerc]

Good idea but it's only the bare frame. I suppose that I could use some of our rags to cover it and then let the boys have their clothes back before it gets too parky.

I could then follow another Yorkshireman:

George Cayley.

He also designed the first glider reliably reported to carry a human aloft. He correctly predicted that sustained flight would not occur until a lightweight engine was developed to provide adequate thrust and lift.
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https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source= ... QJ9IpPvi-p

[LynehamHerc]

I understood there were 3 types of frame on Bs but again I'm quoting from memory.....

"Packaway" type, grey "folding type" both up to around 1970 changeover to black grille I think and then what was referred to as a "Michelotti" type which was a black frame.

Plus that other thing I was on about but not likely to be one of them - statistically. I've also just diverted a late afternoon car cleaning session to a rake through 1960s Motor Sports looking for this blasted "family" hood thing!

Sorry Merc I wasn't as clear as I should have been. Mine is a black folding one, I ignored the packaway type and as you say the other is a grey one for earlier model years.

[mercrocker]

Ah, well it should fit then! Unless it's off a TR5 or something.

[mercrocker]

Bugger me there was an LWB one too!

https://www.mgexp.com/forum/mgb-and-gt- ... n.1299136/

I was trying to find something about the elephant hood I remember seeing advertised and came across that!

[Guest]

I vaguely recall there was a company that did a plus 2 conversion to the MGB not sure if it was the same people who did the same to TR7s (Grinnall?) More likely that it's just badly made/wrong one though.
Edited to add was typing this before Mercrocker posted the above

[LynehamHerc]

I thought that it might be a RV8 one but that has a taller screen so I think it'd need a shorter rather than longer frame.
The more I think about it someone has made one, or possibly more, the wrong size and got rid of them thru eBay.
Buy cheap, although not in this case, buy twice.

[LynehamHerc]

Found it:

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https://www.mgexp.com/forum/mgb-and-gt- ... on.1299136

[Eddie Honda]

Wallet haemorrhage? You're an amateur. Buy a transit and join the professionals.

You're a wealthy plumber, I'm a pensioner.

A stinking rich Yorkshire one with big fuck-off hoose with a granny annexe.

(As you've mentioned no less than seven times before)

[LynehamHerc]

Bought so my mam and dad could come and live with us after my brother died.