British Leyland

[Flip]

This is a real MG.



I have owned it for 20 years.

[caseye]

Yep, seen one or two just like this over the years. Nice little cars and lotsa fun.Nice pic.
Friend owned one that he and his wife used to race and rally. They'd leave home with a set of tyres in the back seat and another gear box ( close ratio one) in the boot. Race/rally all day then drive home.
Still got it I believe.

[Indiana_Jones]

The whole 'real' MG thing is a bit ehhh like saying what's a real Riley & Wolseley etc

But saying that I do love the above Midget

-Indy

[Motu]

Well Riley and Wolseley were real cars in their own right....until becoming part of BMC. But an MG was always based on a Morris.....then they became part of BMC and were based on an Austin. An Austin Healey is a hotted up Austin. An MG Midget is a badge engineered Austin Healey Sprite. Just like Lego - here's a box of bits, now go and have a play....

[Indiana_Jones]

Pretty much on the money, these marques were swallowed up and became badge engineered versions of what they used to be.

But that's fine as these companies would of just failed, and I love my Wolseley, I know it's just an Austin/Morris 1800 with a different front end

But still has 'normal' dials (i.e. no ribbon), bigger seats with fold down arm rests!

-Indy

[scumdog]

Pretty much on the money, these marques were swallowed up and became badge engineered versions of what they used to be.

But that's fine as these companies would of just failed, and I love my Wolseley, I know it's just an Austin/Morris 1800 with a different front end

But still has 'normal' dials (i.e. no ribbon), bigger seats with fold down arm rests!

-Indy

As mentioned, my 'Marina' ute does not have that name anywhere, it's rego label only has 'Morrid 500'

And 'Austin-Morris' on the grille badge.

And 'Leyland' on the steering wheel.

And the tail-door badge reads 'Austin-Morris 500 DL' with the Leyland logo on front of it.

[Indiana_Jones]

Kiwibiker BMC/BL meet? lol

-Indy

[Flip]

The whole 'real' MG thing is a bit ehhh like saying what's a real Riley & Wolseley etc

But saying that I do love the above Midget

-Indy

Yep, seen one or two just like this over the years. Nice little cars and lotsa fun.Nice pic.
Friend owned one that he and his wife used to race and rally. They'd leave home with a set of tyres in the back seat and another gear box ( close ratio one) in the boot. Race/rally all day then drive home.
Still got it I believe.

Cheers.

It has up rated 1" lowered spring and propper uprated shocks, minilites, positive camber, 3/8ths sway bar, urethane bushes, a pan hard rod, LCB exhaust, high comp pistons, fast road scatter cam, ported and polished head and high flow oil pump.

It goes very well for a old car and it drives like a dream. This what it looks like from the front....

[Motu]

I love my Wolseley, I know it's just an Austin/Morris 1800 with a different front end

I had a Singer Vogue - it was just a Hunter with wood trim and a different grill. It was no good on the rutted Waiheke roads, and couldn't even get up my gravel drive. So I got another MkI Austin 1800 - great on rutted roads, and would go up my drive forwards towing a trailer with 3 bikes and no wheelspin at all.

[Daffyd]

The point I was trying to make in my earlier post is that the first MG's were built mainly from Morris bits, and, of course, for the "unwashed", MG stands for Morris Garages.

[Edbear]

As mentioned, my 'Marina' ute does not have that name anywhere, it's rego label only has 'Morrid 500'

And 'Austin-Morris' on the grille badge.

And 'Leyland' on the steering wheel.

And the tail-door badge reads 'Austin-Morris 500 DL' with the Leyland logo on front of it.

So no identity crisis then...

Cheers.

It has up rated 1" lowered spring and propper uprated shocks, minilites, positive camber, 3/8ths sway bar, urethane bushes, a pan hard rod, LCB exhaust, high comp pistons, fast road scatter cam, ported and polished head and high flow oil pump.

It goes very well for a old car and it drives like a dream. This what it looks like from the front]

Positive camber?

[Virago]

As mentioned, my 'Marina' ute does not have that name anywhere, it's rego label only has 'Morrid 500'

And 'Austin-Morris' on the grille badge.

And 'Leyland' on the steering wheel.

And the tail-door badge reads 'Austin-Morris 500 DL' with the Leyland logo on front of it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Marina#New_Zealand

...In 1979 the Marina received a facelift and the BL O-Series OHC 1.7L engine, however at the time the Marina name was perceived as negative by the New Zealand public – hence the Marina name was dropped completely, the car being renamed Morris 1.7. The Morris 1.7 had high equipment levels and included front spoilers and driving lights on all models. The related van and pickup models were renamed Morris 575.

Production of this car ceased in 1981, and the car was replaced locally by an expanded range of NZMC Honda products...

[Flip]

So no identity crisis then...



Positive camber?

In most old car the dimension between the top of the front wheels is wider than at the bottom. It makes them easier to turn. In modern cars the the bottom of the tyre is outside the top, it makes the turn better at speed.

[Edbear]

In most old car the dimension between the top of the front wheels is wider than at the bottom. It makes them easier to turn. In modern cars the the bottom of the tyre is outside the top, it makes the turn better at speed.

Sorry I should have been clearer. I know about camber and caster, just thought for track work you would dial in a tad negative camber. Sure makes non-power steering easier with a bit of positive camber though.

[Flip]

I did it for two reasons.

I fitted modern radial tyres that work better with positive camber and 185s are the biggest tyre I can fit however the tops of the wide tyres used to be outside the guards and would have failed a WOF.

There is no way I was going to cut the guards.