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My 15 seconds of Fame
« on: September 13, 2017, 03:46:35 »
Not Pagoda centered but I thought the group would find it of interest.  The story of the Sprite is about my daughter and grandkids and the car I resurrected for them

https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2017/09/08/austin-healey-encounter-2017/?refer=news

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Re: My 15 seconds of Fame
« Reply #1 on: September 13, 2017, 04:09:30 »
Well done Joe,
What a nice way of passing on the love of classic cars.
30 years ago I bought an MGB on a whim. Was not really what I wanted and passed it on to my Dad. 27 years later, after he passed, my Mom gave it back to me. We loved it, but I passed it on to our son.
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Re: My 15 seconds of Fame
« Reply #2 on: September 13, 2017, 16:35:57 »
Cute MGB - that would be a bit of an anomaly here in America with only two windshield wipers - 73-74 Grill and 72-73 bumper over riders - very nice colour combination.
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Re: My 15 seconds of Fame
« Reply #3 on: September 14, 2017, 05:29:19 »
Hi Ian,
I did not realise that the US delivered MGB had 3 wipers. Thought only the E Types had 3.
I managed to get a Heritage certificate during my last visit to the UK. It is indeed a 74 LHD built for and delivered to Austria and as far as I know was imported to South Africa in the early 80s. We bought it in Cape Town in 86, in quite good condition and seemed stock. I assume the bumpers were stock for the EU, could also have been an optional extra
I kept it standard except for swopping over from LHD to RH in 2013.
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Re: My 15 seconds of Fame
« Reply #4 on: November 15, 2017, 03:14:05 »
The three wiper U.S. cars came about because of a Federal standard that required that the wipers sweep more than 80% of the glass area.  However, it's more than just a matter of two v.s. three wipers - the right-hand drive cars have wiper motors that park left and left-hand drive cars have wiper motors that park right. 
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Re: My 15 seconds of Fame
« Reply #5 on: November 17, 2017, 21:09:16 »

My brother Volker has got an MG B (1972-US) ...,
a very nice car indeed.
Really love these little roadsters a lot.


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