[Mgs] 1972 MGB GT V8 Race Car

[Matt Trebelhorn]

There's a link, in the page to which the original poster linked,  
which goes in to a lot of technical detail about the car.

In short answer to your question, yes -- it has MGB suspension.   
Springs from Moss, uprated lever shocks, re-arched rear leaf  
springs.  It's an MGB suspension.

MGB shell.  MGB suspension.  MGB-V8 motor.  (all of these items have  
been modified for racing.  If you don't like seeing items modified  
for racing in a race car... well, I'm not sure I can help.)

To me, that car doesn't even raise a question of genuine-ness.  It's  
got bodywork modeled after the factory Sebring race cars, a Rover V8  
like the factory installed, upgraded suspension.  It is an MGB race  
car -- if it's anything else, I can't even imagine what you would  
call it.

(and Bill, I love the Jamaican -- not that my vote counts for much.)
Matt

On 1 Sep, 2009, at 9:59 AM, Richard Gosling wrote:

> "It looks like an MGB to me..."
>
> I think that's the root of the issue here.  It *looks* like an  
> MGB.  But it has fibreglass bodywork, no MG interior fittings, and  
> an engine that, while a version of a design that was fitted to the  
> factory MGBGTV8, is a very substantially different spec.  The  
> suspension is likely different too (although the article doesn't  
> say).  So, arguably, if few of the components in that car are  
> actually shared with any standard factory MGB, it's more of a  
> "silhouette racer".  But then it's listed as a '72 - is that just  
> fanciful, or did a real '72 car donate enough of itself (i.e. more  
> than it's title!) that it's soul lives on in this vehicle?
>
> I'm not saying there's anything wrong with any of that, and I'm  
> glad that someone is rich and daft enough to put together such a  
> car.  It looks like an impressive machine.
>
> I guess the question is, philosophically, how much of a car needs  
> to be made of genuine MG parts for it to be an MG?  And that's a  
> question that could keep us going a long time...
>
> I think few, if any, of the people on this list have any objection  
> to MGs being raced on grounds of rarity.  Not yet, anyway.
>
> Richard