Does /o/ like MGs and other cool old British cars?

Yes but i coudnt afford one

neat car
+ it looks good
- its brittish.

GT6 MK3
TR6, TR8
Jagrolets

Great 3rd cars.

>>14797506
Fuck yes

I wish MG sold in the U.S. still

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>>14797506
I get hate everytime i post my MG

>>14798143

Burger here. That's an MG??? What year?

We haven't seen MGs in the US since the 70s. (BL / Morris years)... so we have lots of Old Brit nostalgia.

From what I can determine the recent MGs aren't loved much in the UK. What's the reason?

Americans and Australians are retarded and think anything that doesn't have 300hp or more and either v8 or turbo charged engine is shit...

These are countries where burnout competitions gain more interest than things like hill climbs and motorkahans by the way.

>>14798167
MG ZR 2003
rover and MG went bust in 2006 from poor management and failed buyouts by BMW and and another company. The petrol engines were prone to head gasket failure around 40,000 to 70,000 the gaskets came from a german company who had never made gaskets for cars before and had only done bikes. I drive a diesel version with an indestructible perkins derived engine.

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>>14797506
Yup. I just bought one last Saturday even. 1980, last of the line.

>>14797815
Nah, the old MGs from Abingdon were the best cars British Leyland made by a large margin. MG had pride in their work and never struck once, and their cars reflect it.

>>14798215
Please remove that fucking bumper and then you've got yourself a handsome car.

>>14798311
Those bumpers look okay when colour coded.

The triumph spitfire look damn good with a hard top on them, and the gt6 is just sexy

>>14798311
But I actually like the rubber bumpers. MG actually took the effort to mold them into the form of the car instead of tacking them on like BMW and Mercedes Benz. It updated the look of the car, too.

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>>14797506
>like MGs

Yes

>and other cool old British cars

Yes

>>14798167
Basically an old honda civic but more worserer

>>14798400
>car looks like a big lipped nigger
Yeah man, looks great.

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>>14798537
Not my fault they actually made the car look smooth up front.

>>14798537
People lose respect for your opinions when you talk like a typical 4chan internet weirdo.

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>>14798560
>>14798556
It's nicer than what I drive.

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>Tfw no Rover SD1

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British Leyland thread? British Leyland thread.

All you fucks get in here.

>>14798215
Pretty

>>14798533
Your thinking of the rover 200 m8, the ZR is a totally different car.

>>14798143
I still think it was retarded how BL completely dropped the ball with MG in the 70s. How did MG get its start? Performance mods of Morris cars. Literally all they had to do was make hot hatch versions of BL cars to fight the Golf GTI and they would have sold like crazy. It's fucking criminal that they didn't even make a hatchback that wasn't the Maxi until the 80s, let alone a hot hatch.

>>14797506
No
Too unreliable

>>14797506
Triumph>MG

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>>14797506

/o/ is filled with aussies who like muscle, commuter cucks who justify their civic/golf/focus, and amerifat NU MUSCLE who don't have the capacity to appreciate anything that doesn't have 700hp. Of course they have classic british roadsters. Even the miata threads, that are about the best evolution of the british roadster, are filled with trolls who think they can actually shit on miata owners and have them feel like. Like come on they're secure enough to buy it, you think your half-assed attempt to troll will actually get them riled up? They're too happy with actually driving their cars to give you attention.

So /o/ hates these things. They don't "get it." Of course they done. 75-80% of /o/ are only concerned with

stance
vape
making themselves feel better about whatever FWD shitbox their parents handed down to them
jerking off about hp numbers, which is mainly used to haul the pig fat disgusting chassis around highways
muh luxury, which is 90% baseless, useless, and already overpriced from the factory

British roadsters are:
classic, gorgeous as fuck looks
just the right amount of hp, because 30-50mph winding country roads are the GOD tier of roads, 85mph+ straight highways are the literal piss shit tier of roads
good handling, great communication between road, steering, and driver
LIGHTWEIGHT you fucking tards, lightness makes everything better (acceleration, handling, braking)
SIMPLE you cucks "oh I can't do SHIT unless I have GPS" "oh I need my heated seats and fake ass carbon fiber dash trim" "oh I need my 25 fucking buttons on my huge ass steering wheel"

Some of them, mostly oldfags, mostly OVER the age of 25, know what's up, that these are literally some of the most pure driving cars ever made, ever. Modern legislation makes these things impossible to be made again.

Oh oh oh but they break down! These only break down because you're a lazy dumbfuck who can't be bothered to actually care about your car and learn to fucking wrench. It's not hard>>

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>>14800725

>>because they're fucking SIMPLE. You know what's hard? Changing an part on a 2016 nufat brostang.

Anyway, to the few who know what's what and actually appreciate these things, props. To the rest, good riddance, leaves the rest of these things, which are getting rarer and rarer, to the rest of us.

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>>14798995
Thanks. It's a low mileage example too.

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>>14800725

Are you drunk? I agree with you but here, I fixed it for you:

>/o/ is filled with aussies who like muscle, commuter cucks who justify their civic/golf/focus, and amerifat NU MUSCLE who don't have the capacity to appreciate anything that doesn't have 700hp. Of course they HATE classic british roadsters. Even the miata threads, that are about the best evolution of the british roadster, are filled with trolls who think they can actually shit on miata owners and have them feel like SHIT. Like come on they're secure enough to buy it, you think your half-assed attempt to troll will actually get them riled up? They're too happy with actually driving their cars to give you attention.

>>14800741
>MGBs
>getting rarer and rarer

They built over 500k of the things, and sent over 350k of them to the US. It has quite possibly the best parts situation of any classic car after the Ford Mustang and Model A. If it's still around now, it'll stay around until it gets in a wreck.

>>14800760
*if one of them is still around

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I love my old car smell.

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>>14800742
Also, I was wondering. Is it out of the ordinary for the emissions sticker to have lasted this long in this condition?

>>14800760

I think he meant they were not neccessarily "rare" but just that since they're just old cars they're naturally getting rarer, as is the nature of older cars. Yes they're actually quite common if you want to look for one.

It's a shame really, that since they're so relatively common, cheap to buy, simple to work on, that they aren't more popular with teens/college people/younger people.

The overwhelming majority of modern day young people would rather text in their google car or tesla than own and drive classic british roadster.

>>14798215
>>14800783


DAMN. Do you realize that you won? Like, you just won man. Better keep her for a long time and drive the hell out of it.

>>14800808
It doesn't feel like winning. The head gasket is toast. It feels charming, just not like winning.

>>14798311
its almost iconic to the car at this point
it only seems out of place because there are no side skirts

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>>14800818

Winning isn't about having a cookie cutter sellout 4 door 2011 automatic daily driver.

It may be to most, but that's a game I don't with to play.

>>14798143
>reasonably nice looking leather interior
>drums at the rear

wat

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>>14797506
this mofugger right here
they look really good in person

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>>14800798
>mfw I saw an ad for a maroon 1979 MGB
>mfw the reason for selling was "Bought for son, but it's not "cool" enough for his 1st car.... "

I should have screencapped it.

>>14800831

I had forgotten how happy those frogs look

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https://houston.craigslist.org/cto/5513969450.html

>>14800788

Not really, I've spilt oil and stuff over mine, still looks fine after 40 years. One some cars they put them at rust prone areas of the wheelarch tho, usually due to mounting holes and assorted plastic covers that fitted into them.

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>>14800846
MG BGT
MGB GT
Whatever the fuck they're called look fucking amazing in my opinion. That mans son must be a faggot fluffer.

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>>14800890
Ah, okay. I'd never actually seen a BL emissions sticker before, and I was wondering. Blue and yellow's an interesting choice for it.

>>14800896
The MG GT was designed by Pinanfarina.

>>14800846

FUCKING REEE man, fucking ree.

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proud gt6 owner here. everyone looks. everyone loves it :3 feels fucking good

>pic related, my favourite angle

>>14800896
It was a roadster, but that just makes even less sense. It's a freaking old school convertible; girls love them. Redneck was probably mad it didn't have a Vee Ate in it.

I have a friend that has two MGBs and a MGB GT. Pretty nice once they were finished but fuck fixing them up. You have to truly love those cars otherwise just get a Miata.

>>14800921
Very nice fampai. I love that angle too, it really shows off its wide sexy hips.

>>14800928
They're easy to fix. Simple as fuck. Replace the fuel pump with a solid state unit, get rid of the points and drop in an electronic ignition module and your good to go.

>>14800921
Nice. What year?

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>YFW literally everyone who I know legit thinks a stanced civic is better looking than this. I'm 20. Fucking kill me man

>>14800936

and the glorious michelotti roof/c pillar

>not pictured: rusty chassis :(

>>14800939

1971. its a mk3, but you can tell that from the taillights. my wife and i bought it for 10k. still needs a little work

>>14800725
>>14800741

Late night /o/ best /o/

>>14800942
That's what you get for being underage.

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>>14800863
>they converted it to an auto too

>>14800991
WAKE ME UP

>>14798185
Aus here. Plenty of love for MGs and the like here. Even the burnout crowd respect them as nice cars.

Went past a MGB in my way to work this morning in my 86 and I dwarfed it. Really hammers home how pigfat cars are now days when you compare two cars like that that were designed with similar ideals

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>>14801051
Yeah. They're fucking tiny. It makes parking it an absolute dream.

>>14801140

FACT: driving a small british roadster is more polite to everyone else because they have space to open their pigfat disgusting doors

>>14798143
Because you drive a Rover 25.

>>14800725
I agreed with you until you started talking smack about civics and American muscle.

I like all kinds of cars, why can't you?

>>14801051
Ge fucked the burnout bogan crowd think anything british is faggot girls car.

Stop talking rubbish.. Burnout competituion bogans are just scum who want to see huge billet wheels and supercharger out the bonnets of everything... They don't know anything about taste.

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>>14797506

>>14801337
Implying a mgb with a fuck off huge supercharger isn't the best thing ever

>>14801355
Nice

AS long as you don't get a really early one that hasn't been converted to negative ground, they're pretty reliable.

The positive ground ones are awful though

>>14797506
MG is so fucking entry level it hurts. It's the Miata of the classic car world.

>>14798689
~I bought a copy of practical classics yestarday with a full write up on every model, I'll provide scans if anyone is interested (and if my scanner still works)

>>14798689
Ultra cool looking but the build quality is scary to say the least.

>>14800863
>Take lightweight roadster
>Drop in boat anchor iron block vee ate
>Drop in boat anchor iron autotragic
>Taller final drive

I'm willing to bet that the engine is heavier than the rest of the car combined, it must understeer like nothing else

>>14801473
that's the fucking point, the miata was modeled after the mgb roadster and the like

Hello chaps, I drive a TVR. Ask me anything.

>>14801632
How many times have you died so far?

>>14801355
Petrol injection?

>>14801522
>Drag thres on the back

as if who built it gives a fuck about handeling.

>>14800942
Stop hanging out with retards.

>>14801487
Yes pls senpai

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>>14797506

yes, bump.

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>>14797506
Yes

>tfw you'll never cruise around southern france with a hot girl in a Bristol 404

>>14797506
I do, I love the triumph TR's and the GT6, although they aren't massively reliable they are actually built above an acceptable standard, now days you can restore these machines mechanically to be better than ever, and still retain those gorgeous looks... as a bonus you can have them sound nicer than normally nice as most are too old to require a catalytic converter by law.

>>14798143
because it looks like something a chav would drive

>>14803113
Why don't you just jerk off then

>>14797810
They're cheap though

Well, everyone agrees that the TR6 and the MGB are great, but what about the Midget 1500? I never see anything about them beyond that they're one of the smallest sports cars you can buy.

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>>14803310
I owned a Midget (exactly like pic related). Was actually the first in my group to get an English car. Within a year there were 5 of us with MG's or Triumphs. We used to go to the back roads around midnight and race. Young and foolish back then.

>>14803306
Yeah. Just cruising CL can easily find you a good example for like $5-7k.

>>14800928
obviously you know nothing about them, there very simple to work on cars.

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>>14803113
>not a 402

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My father has a TR6. Came out the same year he was born, so it's like his brother.

>>14801473
>MG is so fucking entry level it hurts.
And that's a BAD thing? It's like you don't want to have an aftermarket parts catalog so extensive that can get you literally any part you need for the car for reasonable prices.

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Starting to get her ready for the spring. Seats are out being redone by a coworker of mine that is an upholsterer.

>>14806907
are those fucking cannon

>>14806989

>this guy doesnt even have a bunch of cannon in his basement

could you be any more plebian, fucking disgusting

>>14806989
...yes. There's a reason that only a Spitfire can fit in my garage, cannons take up a lot of space. Quite frankly they are a hell of a lot more valuable than any car at the house, need to be protected.

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>>14806907
>>14807049
Explain
EXPLAIN
WHY CANNON THOUGH

>>14807102
Cannons are fun. And both me and my dad are Civil War historians, collectors, and shooters.

>>14797506
My grandad is working on an old Triumph Spitfire, I'm sure I'll get a go in it, and logically I'm the only person in his will it'll go to

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>>14807102
Who wouldn't have fun doing this?

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MG A is one of the best looking cards of all time.

>>14807233
It's kinda funny how before the war, MG was a niche British make, but afterwards they did like 70% of their business in the US. I can't think of another company that so completely shifted markets so abruptly as they did.

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>>14797506
Hey, would a TR7 be dumb as hell, or do you think I could get away with it?
https://milwaukee.craigslist.org/cto/5486937930.html

>>14809789
TR7s are ugly

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>>14809789
Tr6's are better m8

>>14809789
You could get away with it. Just watch the water pump. The Triumph Slant-4 is nowhere near as reliable as the B-series in the MGB.

>>14809789
And watch for rust, too. The big Triumph factory in Liverpool had some *shit* quality control and rust proofing. It wasn't as bad as at Longbridge, but that's really not saying much.

>>14810249
In power. TR7s handle better. If the TR7 had gotten the Sprint head as standard, or the Rover V8 like it was supposed to from the beginning it would have been much better.

>>14811605
The water pumps are an absolute bitch to remove. Same for the heads if they had never been removed before.

>>14811658
That's a Solihull built 7. Much better quality.

>>14809789
Either learn to tune those carbs or replace them.

>>14809789
If you want an interesting build, the Saab slant-4 is a modified Triumph engine. You should be able to swap one in with a little work.

>>14813460
Did they ever make one with 16 valves? I was thinking it would make a good stand-in for the Sprint engine

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>>14807102
>needing to justify cannon

its a cannon m8

there is no why

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>>14813471
>16 valve

Yes. A twin cam, 16 valve engine. Both Na and turbo as well.

>>14813555
One glaring issue I see with a Saab swap is the distributor. On the Saab, the engine is backwards. You won't be able to fit that engine in a TR7 and still be able have a distributor.

>>14813555 >trips
>>14813733
It's strange, the Saab engine is laid out the same, yet sits backwards in the bay. That would mean it would lean over the wrong way in the triumph engine bay.
Also, how could you be sure of the car's birthplace? The year says '80, but it could have been sitting on the dealer's lot. What tells do you see?

>>14814557
The builders plate would say. It'd say the plant of manufacture and the month of manufacture as well.

>>14814611
Do you think this information could be gleaned from the VIN? Some carmakers actually put a ton of info there, but I'm not sure if British Leyland could handle something that complex...

>british racing green MGB
muh dick

>>14814641
Yes, actually. Per the TRdrivers website:
>1975 -1978, Speke-built cars (Prefix: ACG, ACH, ACL, CAN, ACT, ACW)
>1978 -1979, Canley- built cars (Prefix: TCG, TCN, TCT, TCV, TCW)
>1979 - 1980. Canley-built cars (Prefix: TP)
>1980 � 1981, Solihull-built cars (Prefix SAT)
>1981, Solihull-built cars (Prefix: SAT, with check digit)

All you have to do is get the VIN.

>>14813733
>>14814557
>>14814641

I never said there wouldn't be difficulties with the Saab swap. But it could be done and would be an interesting project.

You could also get the certificate from the British Motor Heritage Trust. They have the records for almost all British cars made post war, and some pre-war.

>>14800921
This car in chch, kiwifag? I possibly know you if you are a dirty pommy ginger

>>14814557
75-77 Were Speke built
79-79 Canley built
80-81 Solihull built along with TR8s

>>14814825

nope im in auckland. bought it off a guy in the southern north island. he had a stag too, but was moving up north and could only keep one car. never actually met the guy so no idea what he looked like

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I fucking love classic british roadsters but man, i can't justify choosing one over a miata.

>>14816704
They're at least mechanically simple.

You can justify an MGB a lot easier than you can an Alfa Romeo.