I like this photo -- lifted from a 2003 pic from a Texas MGB website . . . GIMP'ed (free Photoshop) by me. I like the lines and flow of the early MGB's. The stick-on stuff to meet U.S. laws became more and more ludicrous, culminating in the rubber bumper version to meet bumper safety laws and such. (Not to knock those cars!!!) I would like to peel back the car a bit and give it some more flair like the earlier coupes had. I don't know that I'll go for wire wheels, but giving the car some of my own touches will make it my own. Yea, the purists might thumb their nose at it and pick apart the flaws, but I'm not driving it to take it to a Barrett-Jackson auction. I'm driving it because it's a cool old car. It's not a numbers matching barn-yard find or a coddled and pampered show queen. Nothing wrong with either . . . but if they're just to become another cog in a balance sheet for someone else, it's not quite my cup of tea. So to speak.
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