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Building a restomod is straightforward: Take the body of a classic car and stuff it full of updated drivetrain and suspension pieces. While most builders start with Detroit products, England's Frontline Developments uses an MGB-GT and calls the stunning result the LE50. More »
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The ninth installment of Josh Clason's Depth of Speed series introduces us to Roger and Rob Gisseman, two generations of British car lovers. More »
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If you are yearning for a unique project car this 4x4 MG MGB may be for you. Complete with rust, a questionable custom 4x4 conversion and potential title issues, the future owner is guaranteed an absolute nightmare interesting automotive adventure. More »
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"It seems that the MGC's biggest problem was that it was the answer to a question no one was really asking," according to Ate Up With Motor's Aaron Severson in his latest article. More »
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Drag race, rallycross, paved circle track, road course, and a dirt quarter mile oval, win it all in one crappy car at the Leadfoot Rally and you could be crowned The Ultimate Shoe. More »
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Automobile Magazine columnist Jamie Kitman took Vanity Fair's Brett Berk to look at an MGB. Kitman bought it, Berk wrote about it. The best part? They ditched a Jaguar launch to do it. [Vanity Fair] More »
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You hear a lot of guys bragging about their cars' mighty power output, claiming 500 horses at the wheels and so on, but how many actually roll up to a real-world dynamometer test? Armand did! More »
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Most of us will look at these admittedly godawful numbers for the Triumphs, Jaguars, and MGs we've seen in LeMons races and back away in horror… but your true British car aficionado will see those numbers as a challenge! More Spitfires! More Rover 3500s! More Humber Sceptres! More »
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Yes, one of our favorite Index Of Effluency contenders went into the dirt and flipped over yesterday afternoon. That's the bad news. The good news is that the driver of the Killer Bee MGB wasn't hurt. More »
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Everyone seemed to approve of the awesome garage of LeMons Assistant Perpetrator Jeff yesterday, so let's take a look at the car that started it all: a neighbor-enragin', autocrossin' 1973 MGB. More »
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Some of you observant types might notice that British Leyland and the Rootes Group were totally separate corporations, but we like to fill up tables think their ads go together quite well! More »
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Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. The street-driven MGB is nearly extinct these days. More »
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As always, there was no shortage of BMW E30s at the last LeMons race, but we also saw representatives of British Leyland, German subsidiaries of the Detroit Big Three, and a whole squadron of Saabs. More »
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Fine, go ahead and break out the Lucas Electrics jokes. But there's no denying that a factory-racer '69 Ford Escort looks amazing on a race track, and Vintage Racer has some great shots for us.
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Someone always screams "SAVE IT!" when we post shots of some lovable old car in the junkyard, and now self-service junkyard chain Pick-N-Pull is giving you a chance to do just that!
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The Ford 302-powered MGB-GT we saw a couple months ago looked pretty good, but we want to see some V8 MGBs tearing up the race track! As if on cue, the not-so-sane folks over at BritishV8.org are back with an exhaustively detailed story on the '73 MGB-GT V8 that's beating up on Porsches in SVRA's Group 8, A-production class. No Malaise Era 62.5 horsepower B engine here; instead, there's a 13.5:1 compression, quad-Webered, 3.5 liter Rover V8, and it just keeps getting better from there. Make the jump to check out the photos and read the whole article. More »
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I came across this SR20DET-powered MGB-GT on BritishV8.org and thought it was pretty cool, and likewise this CA18DET. However, sometimes it becomes necessary to put absurd power in your little British Leyland fastback, and that's where the Ford small-block comes in handy. This conversion by Fast Cars involved much, much more than just shoehorning a big ol' V8 into the engine compartment, and the article does a great job of documenting what was involved. This one definitely gets the Jalopnik Stamp-O-Approval™![BritishV8.org] More »
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Welcome to Project Car Hell, where you choose your eternity by selecting the project that's the coolest... and the most hellish! Last time we simultaneously crushed and seared our fingers in the red-hot vise of the Hell Garage, the Shelby-ized Dodge Omni beat hell out of the Shelby-ized Dodge Shadow in the poll. Today, with the New England 24 Hours of LeMons race coming up in just a few days, we're thinking about the kind of car it takes to win the most prestigious trophy of the event. No, that's not the one that goes to the so-called "overall winner" (although a team does get some heavy-duty bragging rights by taking that honor). We're talking about the coveted Index Of Effluency trophy, the one given to the team that achieves beyond all reasonable expectation in a seemingly hopeless "race car." You contend for the IOE by showing up in a looks-fast-on-paper car that everyone knows is going to blow up for sure (e.g., Maserati Biturbo, Merkur XR4Ti, Pontiac Fiero, etc.), or by clattering onto the track in something ungodly slow yet totally lovable (see Tunachuckers) and then keeping that crappy heap on the track for hour after punishing hour. We're going with a mix of both approaches in today's Choose Your Eternity matchup!
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A bell-bottomed, braless British babe heads to her MGB after catching Last Tango In Paris- yeah, British Leyland was making cars for rebels back in '73. Need we refer to the legendary build quality of Malaise Era BL cars? We're envious, however, of the UK-market horsepower numbers listed in this ad; the North American '73 MGB packed a mere 78.5 horses under the bonnet. More »
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Many, many cars have passed through my hands since I first picked up a '69 Toyota Corona for 50 bucks, but only a few really make me feel a twinge of regret when I think about letting them go. One such car is the British Racing Green '73 MGB-GT I owned for a few years in my early 20s; it was slow, handled like a garbage truck, went through $40 carburetor floats like other cars go through oil changes, and proved that all those Joe Lucas jokes are based on painful reality... but I still loved it. Perhaps this is the evil lure of the British Car, but I was finally able to heed the rule posted on a huge sign at the only British-car wrecking yard in Northern California: IF IT RUNS, SELL IT. This beat-to-hell MGB-GT, which could be a '71, '72, or '73, might be my old car, after a couple of decades of neglect. Sure, mine was pretty nice when I sold it, but a lot can happen in 20 years! More »
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You'll have fun in the sun, "motoring tops-down" in a spiffy new late-70s MGB, TR6, or Spitfire. Note how the horrifyingly ugly bumpers of the Spitfire are barely glimpsed as we see happy Americans driving hundreds of yards with no apparent electrical malfunctions. Sure, British Leyland gave up on the idea of selling MGs and Triumphs in the US just a year or two after this ad, but can't you feel the optimism here? More »
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Not a whole lot of old British cars remain on the streets of Alameda. We've seen a few Morrises and a couple of Jaguars, but just a single MG up until today. I found this '73 MGB parked just a few doors down from the '68 Pontiac GTO and ran right home to get my camera, in case it was about to drive away any minute. As it turned out, this MG is a new resident, not a onetime visitor. More »
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The majority of voters felt that an eternity spent wrenching on a pair of Willys Station Wagons would be preferable to eternity spent with a '58 Pontiac/'62 Mercedes-Benz combo, according to last Friday's Choose Your Eternity poll. That's fine, but what if you'd prefer endless toil on a hopeless challenging fast car? Something with light weight, V8 power, and primitive 60s suspension and brake design, perhaps? The red-hot iron gates are opening- come on in! More »
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Well, we can all go ahead and change our names to Ettore now, because the 'Bugatti' triumphed over the 'MG TD' in yesterday's Choose Your Eternity poll by a pretty healthy margin. Perhaps the faux MG wasn't really British enough, what with its German underpinnings (and the Fauxgatti, lacking any underpinnings, was undeniably the more hellish of the two choices). Still, the phony MG TD reminded us that there's just no Project Car Hell quite like British Project Car Hell; as William Gibson puts it in Pattern Recognition, you're dealing with the Mirror World when you start tearing up your knuckles on a car from the UK. A Mirror World in which electrons ignore the laws of physics and prefer insulators to conductors, every component containing iron manages to find a source of pure superheated oxygen for more rapid oxidation, and you develop an inexplicable craving for mushy peas after tearing all the skin from your knuckles out in the garage. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=327240&view=rss&microfeed=true Back in 1988, I hopped in my MGB-GT and headed south from Oakland, taking a photograph out the windshield every five miles until I got to the Grapevine, just north of Los Angeles. Yes, I worked a full-manual SLR while driving a twitchy sports car, and reloaded film while driving as well (thus losing the right to complain about people using their cellphones while driving). The idea was to load the shots in a pair of slide projectors, add weird soundtrack, and do some sort of installation art piece. I did the piece and, sadly, lost the slides during a move years later. However, I just ran across a long-forgotten videotape of the slideshow and was able to grab most of the images off it. All that remained was to dub the Murilee Arraiac song "This Is What He Is Saying" onto it and rollin' on I-5 like Dukakis in a tank! More »
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First of all, it looks like the Jalopnik readership feels I should pass on the '65 Falcon wagon in favor of the remote-twin-turbo Volvo wagon, though not by a huge margin. Food for thought, indeed; will keep youse informed. And let's not forget Friday's PCH Pimp Edition poll, in which we had our closest vote ever: at the time of this writing, the Bill Blass Lincoln leads the Cordoba 243 to 236! Looks like we'll need to do another Pimp Edition, to settle the issue once and for all. But enough about the past- now it's time to look at today's PCH contestants... More »
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