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craigmacleod

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I have just begun to get my Dad's 79 MGB Roadster on the road after 10 years of sitting in a garage. He has already done a chrome bumper conversion to it and is going to handle the engine work.

I am wondering if there are any bolt-on options for adding Sebring style fender flares to the existing fenders. I don't have the ability/money to do the cut-a-piece-out-of-the-old-fender method that I've seen on a few pages on the 'net and was hoping that there was an easier option out there.

We are still in the process of "negotiating" how the car will look in the end...he wants to go with a classic B look, and I have fallen in love with the Sebring body panels/valances I've seen on line.

Any advice or tips would be greatly appreciated.
 
Welcome to the forum. I am sure you will enjoy it and get a lot of good info.

https://www.britishamericanmotors.net/
This place sells the sebring kit but Tony can give you all the details. I am sure he will be along soon and read this.
Also click on search on our site and search for sebring. There has been a lot of discussion on this subject.
 
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https://www.theautoist.com/2004.htm

[ 01-29-2004: Message edited by: tony barnhill ]</p>
 
Thanks for the quick replies.

Tony- That's going to be quite a machine when you're finished.

I think we're going to leave the fenders alone and try a rear Sebring valance and use the Special Tuning Dam we already have on the front.

While the chrome bumpers don't strike me as much of a safety device, should I be concerned at all that the car will not have bumpers? This is going to be a daily driver.

Also, what are the chances that there is a British American Motors distributor up here in Canada? They have some beautiful pieces, but I get killed with shipping from the US.

Thanks again.
 
Craig,

There are piles of Canadian British car parts suppliers all over the country, depending on what you are looking for, I would imagine Halifax has one or two shops but don't quote me on that either.

Anyway parts supply up in Canuck-land shouldn't be too difficult. I believe there are some MGB owners from the Maritimes here on BCF, if they happen to notice this (hopefully...) they could pipe in.
 
<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by craigmacleod:
While the chrome bumpers don't strike me as much of a safety device, should I be concerned at all that the car will not have bumpers? This is going to be a daily driver.<hr></blockquote>

I'm no expert in the crashworthyness of the MGB, but I have "field tested" the chrome bumpers on them a couple of times.
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If your not in the habit of bumping into shoping carts and trash cans, then your fine without the bumpers. MGB chrome bumpers don't do much in a collision. Even in really low speed accedents, the bumper is usually lower than the bumper on the other car, so the hit is taken by the overriders wich don't seem to absorb much energy.
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I also, unfortunately, have experience with the crashworthiness of the chrome bumpers, and think the only way they might do any good is if you strapped them to the top of the hood or something. Mine sat low enough to go under a Toyota Corolla. Luckily, one new hood later and I was set.
 
Tony - do you have a smaller version of that picture you could post? Say about 600 pixels wide? The one you posted is too wide for some displays (like mine at 800 x 600 screen resolution)

Basil
 
Basil....its only 768x576? Its within the page on my laptop & I'm only using about 3/4 of my computer screen for your web site as I'm looking at something else on the rest...

[ 01-30-2004: Message edited by: tony barnhill ]</p>
 
When you're at 800x640 resolution, you're total browser window space is about 780 wide, give or take a few pixels. Then knock off about 40 pixels for the brown border (about 20 on each side) and you're down to 740. Then knock off about another 150 pixels or so for the right side column where the names and stuff goes, and actually 600 will even be pushing it.
 
So, Baxter..what does all that mean? I'm looking at the entire photo on my laptop screen & have all those borders & stuff & can still read my Buddy List to see who's on-line....what should it be? I can resize it easily
 
It means your laptop resolution is considerably higher than 800 x 640, that's all. The measurements are the number of pixels wide by the number of pixels high on the screen. If I were guessing, (and I am just guessing), I'd say your laptop is probably 1024 x something. It may be higher.

Basil's right, 600 is a pretty good number so folks with small monitors (or low resolution) can view it.
Screen resolutions' a tricky thing. An image or website that looks fine on one will look horrible on another. I mean, at one point I had a machine at home at 800x640, and another at work, a big honking high res 20-something-incher, that displayed at 1600x1280. So it showed TWICE as much as the small one. Almost every web site I went to had huge empty space on it.
 
Well, then, I guess the question would be: can most people view photos that are on my website? The photo in question is, of course, a thumbnail on my site but it opens to the size we've been discussing (actually, all the photos on my Garage section are that size

Or, should I make 'em all smaller?
https://www.theautoist.com/2004.htm
 
I can see em fine Tony but I'm at 1024. btw send me your AOL messenger name
 
Well, Tony, it depends. And it's one of those things you can end up chasing your tail over. These days MOST, but not all are at 1024 x whatever. And when I say most, I mean about 40 percent. The rest is split, some are much much lower (web tv only allows something like 520 wide), some are much much higher, like the 1600-pixel behemoth I mentioned earlier. It could comfortably view two of your pics side by side, with plenty of room left over.

Anyway, 800x640 used to be almost standard, and there's still a lot of those out there. Remember that they're total browser window space is about 780. If the picture is all they have to view, they're fine. If there's extra stuff, like the left-side column here, then it's too big.
 
Hi, I have somthing very similar to the sebring flares kit etc, only in steel with alloy bonnet, glass air ****. Complete front fenders, half fenders in back.Beautiful panel work. Unfotunatly your too far away. I will look to see if I have a pix of what the car would look like, had one somewhere.I have had most of the bits in storage for years, alloy 10.25 compresson 215 cu in, engine,4 bbl carb+ manifold, 5 sp TR trans, chopped windscreen,etc. Been one of my day dreams for years
 
<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by craigmacleod:
Also, what are the chances that there is a British American Motors distributor up here in Canada? They have some beautiful pieces, but I get killed with shipping from the US.<hr></blockquote>


Craig;

I don't think there is a distributor of British American Motors here in Canada.

As for parts, there's lots of suppliers in Canada, and a couple close to us here in the Maritimes. I can forward some names if you like.

If your not already a member I would suggest joining the British Motoring Association of PEI, BMAPEI. They are a very active group. They put on the British Car Days show every July and also put on tech sessions a few times a year.
 
<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Baxter:
Well, Tony, it depends. And it's one of those things you can end up chasing your tail over.

Anyway, 800x640 used to be almost standard, and there's still a lot of those out there. Remember that they're total browser window space is about 780. If the picture is all they have to view, they're fine. If there's extra stuff, like the left-side column here, then it's too big.<hr></blockquote>
My monitor can be set to a range of 640x480 thru 1440x900. It is normally set to 1024x768 & has no trouble with Tony's pics. If I set the monitor to 640x480 the pics are way too big. For those with monitors that are 800x600 the pics would be way too big.

If pics were confined to the standard? jpg size of 640x480 they would fit on almost all screens. The lowest common denominator for computer screens?
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There is no standard size. Pics are whatever size they need to be in the mind of the person sizing them. Even if you did size 'em to 600 or so, which is a good rule of thumb, they'll be tiny on a big monitor. You just do it the best you can.
 
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