[Mgs] More MGBs on TV

[Murray Arundell]

Or as what happens here in Aus, it belongs to the Producer of the  
Advertisement.  There is a guy in Sydney who produces lots of TV  
adverts.  He owns an MGR-V8 and he often places it in his adverts.   
Sometimes its obvious sometimes it not, but its usually there.

Murray Arundell
On 28/05/2009, at 8:12 AM, Max Heim wrote:

> There is a commercial for a casino playing locally that shows the  
> fun-loving
> couple rolling up to the door in their white RBB. It appears 2 or 3  
> times in
> the spot.
>
> It struck me as an unusual choice, in that it is not particularly  
> glamorous
> (at least, not in white, which accentuates the bulbous  
> protruberances), nor
> very "vintage"-looking, and that contemporary convertible sports  
> cars are no
> longer difficult to find -- they could take their pick of Miata, Z4,  
> S2000,
> MR2, Solstice, etc. It was probably available cheap <g>.
>
>
> --
>
> Max Heim
> '66 MGB GHN3L76149
> If you're near Mountain View, CA,
> it's the primer red one with chrome wires
>
>
>
> on 5/27/09 2:20 PM, Bob Howard at mgbob at juno.com wrote:
>
>>  Yes, saw it.  We enjoyed Inspector Morse and his 3.8 MkII.
>>  That was an unlikely accident, that probably destroyed a pretty good
>> MGB. One reads that, because of the costs of a TV or cinema shoot,  
>> the
>> cars are well prepared so they do not cause expensive delays in
>> production.
>> Bob
>>
>> On Tue, 26 May 2009 16:46:04 -0700 Max Heim <max_heim at sbcglobal.net>
>> writes:
>>> You at least want a holddown for when you roll over, so the battery
>>> doesn't
>>> short out sending a shower of sparks over the fuel pump...
>>>
>>> Does anyone recall seeing an Inspector Morse mystery, where some
>>> poor shmuck
>>> is killed when his Iris Blue MGB roadster rolls over after its brake
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