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MGB Archive
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Vintage Wheels Review: 1974 MGB GT V8 – An MGB And A Buick Engine Walk Into A Bar …
Posted on October 9, 2025 | 13 CommentsStop me if you’ve heard this one before: a small British sports car with a lusty American V-8 engine crammed under the hood. When MG installed the ex-Buick Rover V-8 […] -
Vintage C/D Review: 1966 MGB GT – Sometimes, Refinement Isn’t Everything
Posted on October 3, 2025 | 22 CommentsIn October 1965, MG unveiled a handsome fixed-head coupe version of the popular MGB sports car. Car and Driver sampled the new MGB GT in May 1966 and thought the […] -
Curbside Classic: Fiat X1/9 – The Mid-Engine Revolution Arrives On Main Street
Posted on May 2, 2025 | 55 Comments(first posted 12/26/2014) With depreciation and cars like the Porsche Boxster and the Lotus Elise keeping mid-engined cars from being completely unreachable for anyone below Fortune 500 […] -
CC Outtake: English Garden Party
Posted on October 14, 2018 | 10 CommentsOn the first dry day this week, I spotted these classy English ladies in a “garden” I was driving past. I elected to peek over the hedge that curiously had […] -
CC Roadtrip Outtake: 1969 MGB GT – The Little Corker
Posted on March 18, 2017 | 13 CommentsThis week our little clan is in the South of Ireland traveling around. As we were taking a break at a petrol station along the motorway, this little beauty caught […] -
Curbside Classic: 1967 MGB – To B Or Not To B
Posted on April 26, 2016 | 65 Comments(first posted 8/7/2012) Unless you’re over a certain age, or have a kink for Midgets, or are not from the US, say the word “MG” and this is the car […] -
Car Show Outtakes: A Small Honduran Auto Show
Posted on April 29, 2015 | 13 CommentsThe *other* reason I don’t share many original photos with you, apart from the danger factor, is that I am usually a very poor photographer. This picture gives as much […] -
Pranked: In the College Parking Lot, 1986
Posted on March 3, 2015 | 85 CommentsEngineering school, 1986: Somebody pranked one of my classmates by wrapping his MGB with the innards of a cassette tape. I found it hilarious enough then to photograph it. But […] -
Storage Yard Classic: Rubber-Bumper MG-B Roadster
Posted on April 26, 2013 | 33 CommentsWe have seen quite a few rare and oddball cars in the storage yard thus far. This one is a little different; it’s an example of the most-mass produced roadster […] -
Junkyard Classic: The British Car Boneyard – Something For Everyone
Posted on June 14, 2012 | 24 CommentsAs you frequent readers know, the CC graveyard in Eugene is extensive, (click here to read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 and Part 5) but would you […]