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jjbunn

jjbunn

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I picked up a badge bar complete with an AA badge at an antique shop in England a couple of weeks ago:

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(Larger version here: https://farm1.static.flickr.com/253/518941169_38f03451e3_o.jpg )

What's not clear to me is the best way of attaching this to Harold. I've done some searching, but turned up nothing useful. The bar is 2ft long, and there are brackets that fit on each end that have single bolt holes in them (see photo). The length is about the same as the distance between the over-riders on the GT front bumper.

Any advice on this? Thanks!
 
Best advice I can think of is: Hang it in th' house, over the bar. If anything whacks it, it'll take out more than the grill. They're nice to look at, not so much fun to repair after some sot backs into one.

Just my take on it. And dozens of "after th' fact" fixes. It takes "localised damage" and spreads it across the front of the car.
 
DrEntropy said:
Best advice I can think of is: Hang it in th' house, over the bar. If anything whacks it, it'll take out more than the grill. They're nice to look at, not so much fun to repair after some sot backs into one.

Just my take on it. And dozens of "after th' fact" fixes. It takes "localised damage" and spreads it across the front of the car.
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Perhaps I should make it a quick-release fitting, so if some sod does reverse into it, I can remove it and beat them about the head with it?!
 
Your call. I'd hang it inna loo, mese'f. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smirk.gif
 
I like the badge. Even if you don't want to install the bar, you could hang the badge in the grille.
 
That looks like an early TD bar!
 
tony barnhill said:
That looks like an early TD bar!
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Really?! Is it a desirable item? I'm wondering if I should forget trying to use it on Harold ... the response to my mounting question has been lukewarm, to put it mildly /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/bow.gif
 
heh. I never saw a straight one on an MGB. The usual B "grill cruncher" was shorter, had radiused 90* ends. Mounted between the over-riders.
 
Julian, Sounds like a conspiracy to me. What they say about mounting it on your car might be very true, but just to help you out of a tough decision, hmmmm. It would look GREAT hanging up in my den!
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OOohhh!! A mural of a T-series, front-on and that bar oriented in proper position!!

Sell 'im it, Julian! Double yer money! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/devilgrin.gif
 
Julian - I don't have a catalog with me but go to the Moss MGT catalog & call up badge bar.....& I also agree its gonna be hard to fit on a B
 
I've seen straight bars on Bs which attach at the overrider. I'm not sure if that's one of them since I've never seen one off the car.
 
I bought one of those badge bars from Moss for my 74B. It is supposed to fit in between the bumper and overiders. Unless I am completely missing the obvious, there is no way that it will fit to allow the overider to be placed back on snug against the bumper. In fact the distance in betweem the holes to attach the overiders to the bumper and the corresponding holes in the bar is off by about 1.5". I only bought the bar so I could display my father's AA badge.

I've tried to pin the AA badge to the front grill with little success. Not enough room to get my hands down there!
 
Well, if anyone wants this badge bar plus all the fitting pieces (minus the AA badge: I'm going to try attaching that to the grille), please let me know ... I'd be happy to swap it for some other MG part.
 
I'd like it Julian, but fear I'd have the same problems fitting to my B.
Would it fit a midget? I mean, the brackets look like they slide, the distance between posts on a spridget is 18".
No, It's 90* off, sorry!
 
I kinda think the AA badge can be attached to the grill with a couple of long 1/4"x20 thru-bolts and a backing bar behind the grill uprights.
 
DrEntropy said:
I kinda think the AA badge can be attached to the grill with a couple of long 1/4"x20 thru-bolts and a backing bar behind the grill uprights.
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But, Please use stainless bolts and a stainless backing bar!
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