> Date: Fri, 09 May 1997 12:32:53 -0700
> From: Kelvin Dodd <kdodd@West.net>
> Subject: Re: Chrome dress-up goodies
>
> Scott:
> The elbow you are seeing is the standard early MGB spout which
> is made out of aluminum. The unit on the Moss motor is one of their
> repro's which has been ground and polished to within an inch of it's
> life. The regular production units are as cast. It's amazing what you
> can do when you arn't driving your LBC
>
> Kelvin.
>
Kelvin,
How early is "early"? I have a '72 'B', but the water neck is
from an earlier car, or so I would suppose, since it doesn't have the
bracket to mount the air pump. Mine's painted black, but from the
light surface rust where the paint has flaked off, I'm pretty sure
it's not aluminum. It will probably be cheaper to just clean mine up
and re-paint it or have it chromed.
Also, what year MGB used a six-or-seven-bladed, metal fan blade that
was painted yellow? In the catalogues, all I find are black
three-bladed fans and yellow plastic ones. I keep finding parts on
this car that have obviously been salvaged from older cars, so it's
kind of a curiousity for me now to find out when they came from.
Scott Gardner
gardner@lwcomm.com
www.lwcomm.com/~gardner
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