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Black with red scallops..... Steelies............. white walls.?? I have for years thought they were ready to bedropped a lot, painted in at least 2 tone and also given decent rimmage, with or without whitewalls. Who is up for the game ?? Potatochop anyone ??  Or another one...... They seem to lend themselves to all sorts of sillyness, and colours.   |
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More ??  |
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There was a rodded Magnette done years ago, blue and scalloped I think, looked awful IMHO, it was chopped and the proportions were all wrong...
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bryn
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There was a rodded Magnette done years ago, blue and scalloped I think, looked awful IMHO, it was chopped and the proportions were all wrong... Yeah it was kind of Pro-Street, went through a couple of incarnations ending up blue with a hooge wing on the back. I've always loved the shape and know they'd work well with pretty much any treatment. Solid 18s on air with mile deep candy black paint or just wide steels and slammed... I'm surprised nobody has done more with them. Maybe it's the MG tag? |
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Volvo, Buggy, Discovery and an old tractor.
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There was a Magnette in one of the first (if not THE first) issue of Retro Cars which looked stock on the outside except for a cage and some wide steels, but was packing a 2.5 Merc Cosworth 16v under the bonnet.
He rallied that at Millbrook in about 2003, with almost stock MG suspension it handled like a greasy pig on ice, but it was very quick when pointing in the right direction!!
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Mike
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 This one? |
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^^^ Looks very much like it! I remember vividly, we were marshalling that year on a particularly vicious hairpin, and on each stage he approached it with the car sliding in another direction....we stopped the course closing car after about four stages and gave the occupants the bits of over-rider and spotlamps he'd left embedded in the grass bank, and asked them to drop them off for him in the service area!
I seem to recall that he lost his exhaust in the end after lunch and had to retire, but managed to keep us entertained all morning..... :-)
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