[Mgs] MGs in the Limelight

[Paul Hunt]

*Many* years ago Tomorrow's World demonstrated the strength of fibre-glass
bodies by having someone belt wings and bonnet with a sledge-hammer to little
effect.  It was only when they took an axe to it that some damage started to
appear.  However attacks on cars by sledge-hammer and axe-wielding lunatics
are fortunately quite rare, and fibre-glass acts completely differently in an
motor accident.  The wife of a friend was momentarily dazzled by sun as she
pulled out of a side road and ended up mounting the kerb and hitting a lamp
post in his Scimitar GTE at quite a low speed.  She wasn't wearing a seat-belt
as she was eight months pregnant and had been advised against it, and neither
her nor the baby were injured.  However the front half of the bodywork
exploded in a shower of fibre-glass fragments covering the ground for yards
around like snow.

PaulH.
  ----- Original Message -----


  Some years back, Citroen advertised the introduction of the BX model
  with its fibreglass bonnet. They showed a man standing on it and
  although it bent, it went back into shape after the weight was
  removed.