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Re: LWB MGB Roadster
Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2021 4:10 pm
by 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!
Re: LWB MGB Roadster
Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2021 4:58 pm
by 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.
...
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source= ... QJ9IpPvi-p
Re: LWB MGB Roadster
Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2021 5:01 pm
by LynehamHerc
mercrocker wrote: ↑Thu Apr 22, 2021 4:10 pm
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.
Re: LWB MGB Roadster
Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2021 5:10 pm
by mercrocker
Ah, well it should fit then! Unless it's off a TR5 or something.
Re: LWB MGB Roadster
Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2021 5:12 pm
by 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!
Re: LWB MGB Roadster
Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2021 5:13 pm
by 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
Re: LWB MGB Roadster
Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2021 5:23 pm
by 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.
Re: LWB MGB Roadster
Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2021 5:32 pm
by LynehamHerc
Found it:
- 2-plus-2_1.jpg (35.48 KiB) Viewed 2078 times
https://www.mgexp.com/forum/mgb-and-gt- ... on.1299136
Re: LWB MGB Roadster
Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2021 6:42 pm
by Eddie Honda
LynehamHerc wrote: ↑Thu Apr 22, 2021 4:04 pm
paulplom wrote: ↑Thu Apr 22, 2021 3:58 pm
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)
Re: LWB MGB Roadster
Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2021 6:45 pm
by LynehamHerc
Bought so my mam and dad could come and live with us after my brother died.