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When your wife says “you know, I’d really like an MGB GT with that V8 rumble”, you don’t ask questions.
So here it is. Pre-rumble, still in the getting-to-know-you-and-what-your-previous-owners-did-to-you stage. It’s a rust-free California blue plate special, just waiting for me to upset the purists.

The plan is to get the car sorted out (more or less), then heave a Ford 302 into the engine bay. I’m not chasing massive horsepower and all the expense and trouble that goes with it, just giving the car a character change.

Added on May 23 by Keith

Comments

AngryCorvair wrote: May 24, 2008 10:58 p.m.
Purists, Schmurists! Let’s hear that rumble!
Carson wrote: May 25, 2008 12:40 a.m.
I think you have the coolest collection on the board, how do you do it?
minimac wrote: May 25, 2008 9:03 a.m.
Nooooooooo………..
P71 wrote: May 27, 2008 10:54 a.m.
So what’s the rumble going to be? Small block Chevy? Windsor Ford? Nailhead Buick? AMC 401? LS1?
Tim Baxter wrote: May 27, 2008 8:21 p.m.
This is an almost perfect V8 candidate. The world’s not losing a concours early 70s BGT, it’s gaining a Badass GT.
HunterJP wrote: May 28, 2008 10:03 p.m.
You have all the cool toys. Another, “Can’t wait to see it when its done”, project.
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