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MGB MGB BRG witrh red interior??

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Doc, grab a copy of "MG, An Illustrated History" & spend some time in the section on the early MkI cars....& take a look at some of the early pull handle car sales brochures.

Both ways!
 
Very curious! I'll do that. May mount mine "bass ackwards" just to be a contrarian! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
Sounds like me... I park across the diagonal lines in the parking lot at work, just to be a contrarian... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/jester.gif It's actually pretty easy to take up 4 parking spaces with an MGB - hehehehehehehehehe
 
I've only ever managed two in th' Elan tho.
 
I have only seen one official MGB brochure where the lenses were mounted "backwards" and it appeared to be a doctored image of a right-hand UK car changed into a left hand one. It was a very early brochure.

Considering the hundreds if not thousands of cars that have been photographed when new coming from the M.G. factory with the turn signals on the "correct" way, I would say it is unlikely that the factory ever intentionally put them on the other way around. And from a logical standpoint it doesn't make sense either. The running lamps are supposed to be near the outside of the car. And the turn signal lamp reflectors would aim the light in the wrong direction if put on backwards.
 
Hello, I'm the guy Tony didn't want to embarass, because I started pointing this out a year ago over on the MGB Exp (which you guys so fondly refer to as "that other BBS").

And since Tony has all these cars, obviously, he is a MG Guru, and he knows everything about MGs. So of course, you guys will take what he says as the MG gospel.

I just need to get my word out there, and say that Tony, you're wrong. Sure, there were a couple of photos and brochures of cars that had the pictures on backwards. But you said it yourself, and the key word is "preproduction". The preproduction drawings were never 100% accurate, because the cars hadn't been finalized yet, and the artists just played around with the general image of the car. And in the photographs, we all know that MG was the type to just slap together a car, and if it was a preproduction car, the assembler still wasn't trained in the correct way and had a 50/50 chance of putting them on right.

I have a friend with a 62 that is nearly all original with them on right, all the early cars I've had through here have had them on right, even Paul Hanley's car, a 64 that has won the national MGB concours multiple times, has them on right. So, you go right ahead and try to tell people that they can go on either way on early cars, but there a bunch of people that will back me up and say that you're wrong.

And yes, I am very very passionate about my front turn signal lenses. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/jester.gif
 
Figured I'd get you back on the BBS instead of just lurking around anonymously with that one, James....& yes, preproduction they weren't sure what they were doing (heck - they probably never did)....however, there are several photos of cars on the streets of the UK in the early '60's with them 'backwards'...& there's even photos of them lined up in the Abingdon lot awaiting delivery with some one way & some the other...

However, I do agree they should go only 1 way; but this is one of those.....& you've been gone too long!
 
Cars on the street I could accept since they could have been turned around by a clumsy mechanic or DCO. However I have never seen a factory photo with the lenses on backwards. If one exists I'd love to check it out!
 
For what its worth, a large number of UK special editions of MG's accross the ages have had BRG or Brooklands Green paintwork and a red leather interior.

Even Rover managed this with their 1999 special edition 'BRM' which also sported a bright orange nose, just as the old BRM race cars /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
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