I have a daily-drive VW GTI with about 300hp, manual, all the fun bits. I've also got a '79 MGB, back when my fellow Americans "ruined it" with the heavy rubber bumpers, taller suspension, and smog-approved motor. It has about 60hp. And yet, I can feel the racing heritage more in that car, than in the modern VW. Taking a long corner in the MG, it really does just settle in and almost drive itself around the turns. I slapped on the twin SU carbs and a TT exhaust, but I haven't made it any faster or more aggressive. It's just a very fun to drive little car whether I'm cruising around town or getting a bit lead-footed on a back country road.
I can watch this all day. Seeing that little car take those turns with one wheel up makes me smile. Must be one hell of a sway bar under there! Great video :)
Super video...thanks. As young bucks in the mid 60"s ..we joined the SCCA for a couple of seasons.....pure fun and learning experience. But since we couldn't mod our B to tube shocks, we bought a whole bunch of gaskets for those ol' lever shocks...drained the fluid out...and filled'em up with STP.....sure helped in the body roll/tire contact department...blew a few seals but that was ok...she'd make a little daylight under the fronts but not a bunch..lol.
I never was much of a "B" fan. Always have run the "As" and the Midgets. You very well may have swayed me a bit with this video. Great driving. love the shots of the foot work. Makes me want to look for another MG. Here for the past several years it's been the Audi TTs and R cars. I do like the rear wheel drive of English MGs though! Nice video. Bravo.
As seen at Sebring 12's Daytona Continentals 1964 thru 1968-'69... Paddy Hopkirk Timo Makinen We went in my cousins RED '64 Roadster The Red Baron $1000 in 1966 Car lot eviction, for I-75, Tampa... 12,500 on the clock.. Need new tires Dunlop's shot... Dayton Thuroughbred wide ovals fixed THAT SOLD for $1000 1980 I CRIED! 165,000 good miles... Rings and 2nd gear synchro about 1968... HE hever learned double clutching I drove my Dad's old pickups I MISS THAT CAR! The races we went too in it Daytona 24 1967 FERRARI 330P4 1-2-3! FORZA FERRARI J.C.
Our fast road set up has a 3/4" front anti roll bar. I know 7/8" arbs exist, that may be even stronger. When i was younger and more optimistic my unflappable MGB rescued me on a few occasions.
The last few seconds of this video sum it up, that is a thing of beauty! Man and machine as one. Reminds me of Ayrton Senna driving in the rain, just in the flow. It's humbling to watch such smooth driving.
@Viking Pisces haha probably true! I've got one ('72 MGB GT), love it to bits ... even the constant old-car maintenance, 'cos the results are so worth it. Funnest little driver's cars ever built, this coming from an ex-owner of many Alfa Romeos, BMWs etc.
That is one hell of a front anti-roll bar that allows the car to cock the outside wheel. I suppose it also keeps camber change to a minimum. When I fitted a thicker front anti-roll bar to my B I thought that the law of gravity had been reversed. It actually reduced understeer. Look at the short top link and the long bottom link and it all makes sense.
Center of weight is right under your bottom (that’s where the jacking point is each side), you can feel the car as it loads up giving you plenty of time to control the turn. If I had your talent and that car it would be great fun but even my standard 1970 roadster is great on an English twisty B road.
" A sports car for people who don't really want a sports car". While I'm glad that Dickie got over that thought, I'm having a great deal of trouble trying to comprehend where such a thought would come from in the first place. Could any car guy think such a thing about an MG? I mean, come on, it's an MG! Is this a millennial thing?
But my point is that Dickie started out by thinking that an MGB didn't have sports car personality in the first place. It baffles me. Even an MGB GT still has full sports car credentials. A sports car for people who don't really want a sports car is a commuter car. Same size, but with automatic transmission, air conditioning, expensive sound system with whisper quiet exhaust, bigger doors, softer suspension, idiot lights replacing most gauges, power steering. How Dickie thought of an MGB that way is beyond me.
First time I took my MGB GT to a show I met loads of these people. They're easy to see, they'll be the ones complaining you don't have original tyres on....
Excellent series! I can't wait to see more episodes -- F2 Argo anyone? I'm also curious --what are you using as a chase/camera car? It obviously can keep up with these different vintage race cars.
The works cars were 3 main and I am rather certain it was also a 3 synchro box. Carbs I’m not sure on this car but I know Stirling moss’ works MGB has a downdraft Weber
I used to race my stock TR6 in a prodsports class against MGBs, and how I envied their stability in braking and cornering compared to my twitchy rear suspension! I was quite a bit faster than all but the hottest Bs in a straight line, of course,so it made for a fun contest!
This is a historic works car designed to race in FIA pre66 appendix K historic races… there are plenty of faster MGBs… particularly V8 racers… but few which are as much fun to drive…
Some of us think that the MGB is a fantastic car to own, whether for sport or everyday use. I own a 71 BGT Sebring race car replica and made a film asking the question 'Is the MGB the perfect classic car?' Here's the video: ua-cam.com/video/XklaMiZ9Yz4/v-deo.html
I have a daily-drive VW GTI with about 300hp, manual, all the fun bits. I've also got a '79 MGB, back when my fellow Americans "ruined it" with the heavy rubber bumpers, taller suspension, and smog-approved motor. It has about 60hp. And yet, I can feel the racing heritage more in that car, than in the modern VW. Taking a long corner in the MG, it really does just settle in and almost drive itself around the turns. I slapped on the twin SU carbs and a TT exhaust, but I haven't made it any faster or more aggressive. It's just a very fun to drive little car whether I'm cruising around town or getting a bit lead-footed on a back country road.
I can watch this all day. Seeing that little car take those turns with one wheel up makes me smile. Must be one hell of a sway bar under there! Great video :)
Bought mine brand new in August of 1973 and I will never get rid of it what a great car
Really nicely shot and commentated, just objective and not melodramatic. Thanks! slick driving.
Super video...thanks. As young bucks in the mid 60"s ..we joined the SCCA for a couple of seasons.....pure fun and learning experience. But since we couldn't mod our B to tube shocks, we bought a whole bunch of gaskets for those ol' lever shocks...drained the fluid out...and filled'em up with STP.....sure helped in the body roll/tire contact department...blew a few seals but that was ok...she'd make a little daylight under the fronts but not a bunch..lol.
I never was much of a "B" fan. Always have run the "As" and the Midgets. You very well may have swayed me a bit with this video. Great driving. love the shots of the foot work. Makes me want to look for another MG. Here for the past several years it's been the Audi TTs and R cars. I do like the rear wheel drive of English MGs though! Nice video. Bravo.
The B is a MUST ...specialy if tuned all round for +200 HP !!
The MGB is a fantastic little fun machine.
Had several Midgets , one MGB , love these cars ,
Just watched this again, again. Still love it.
Edd was a great competitor to race against back in the early days of the " Equipe Classic Racing" days ;-) Such a great guy on and off track X
Yep , any 60s car that corners on 3 wheels looks like good fun .
many thanks for a thoroughly enjoyable series gents
As seen at
Sebring 12's
Daytona Continentals
1964 thru 1968-'69...
Paddy Hopkirk
Timo Makinen
We went in my cousins RED '64 Roadster
The Red Baron
$1000 in 1966
Car lot eviction, for I-75, Tampa...
12,500 on the clock..
Need new tires
Dunlop's shot...
Dayton Thuroughbred wide ovals fixed THAT
SOLD for $1000 1980
I CRIED!
165,000 good miles...
Rings and 2nd gear synchro about 1968...
HE hever learned double clutching
I drove my Dad's old pickups
I MISS THAT CAR!
The races we went too in it
Daytona 24 1967
FERRARI 330P4
1-2-3!
FORZA FERRARI
J.C.
Our fast road set up has a 3/4" front anti roll bar. I know 7/8" arbs exist, that may be even stronger. When i was younger and more optimistic my unflappable MGB rescued me on a few occasions.
Thoroughly enjoyed this video. Thanks man
Three new tires please!
right...don't bother with that left front.
The last few seconds of this video sum it up, that is a thing of beauty! Man and machine as one. Reminds me of Ayrton Senna driving in the rain, just in the flow. It's humbling to watch such smooth driving.
My '76 has half that horsepower, but it's still an absolute blast to drive!
Note it only lifts the front left on left handers because driver sits on the right. See chicane at 1.52
I now regard my '70 Roadster with renewed respect. It's all stock but -- as others have said -- it's a blast to drive anywhere.
Giving this a thumbs down should require the person be automatically banned from anything to do with old cars. They'll never get it anyway. Fantastic.
He's probably upset because he hasn't got one.
@Viking Pisces haha probably true! I've got one ('72 MGB GT), love it to bits ... even the constant old-car maintenance, 'cos the results are so worth it. Funnest little driver's cars ever built, this coming from an ex-owner of many Alfa Romeos, BMWs etc.
BritCarGuy yes ! Why do they do that ?
The true joy of owning a BL car is the constant tinkering just to keep it running!
Excellent footage of a lovely car.
That is one hell of a front anti-roll bar that allows the car to cock the outside wheel. I suppose it also keeps camber change to a minimum. When I fitted a thicker front anti-roll bar to my B I thought that the law of gravity had been reversed. It actually reduced understeer. Look at the short top link and the long bottom link and it all makes sense.
Center of weight is right under your bottom (that’s where the jacking point is each side), you can feel the car as it loads up giving you plenty of time to control the turn. If I had your talent and that car it would be great fun but even my standard 1970 roadster is great on an English twisty B road.
Great film a joy to watch
Great video. A real works B being driven hard.
I wonder what stiffness front roll bar is so that it's picking up the unloaded wheel?
MGBs are compliant and a great deal of fun whether standard or race prepared.
As a TR-250 owner our little 60's roadsters are more fun to drive than most of today's offerings at a fraction of the price.....
I love my MGBs. 68, 71 and 79.
" A sports car for people who don't really want a sports car". While I'm glad that Dickie got over that thought, I'm having a great deal of trouble trying to comprehend where such a thought would come from in the first place. Could any car guy think such a thing about an MG? I mean, come on, it's an MG! Is this a millennial thing?
Probably because they were easy to drive for almost anyone, while still giving a real sportscar experience. I love mine!!
Allegro GT
But my point is that Dickie started out by thinking that an MGB didn't have sports car personality in the first place. It baffles me. Even an MGB GT still has full sports car credentials. A sports car for people who don't really want a sports car is a commuter car. Same size, but with automatic transmission, air conditioning, expensive sound system with whisper quiet exhaust, bigger doors, softer suspension, idiot lights replacing most gauges, power steering. How Dickie thought of an MGB that way is beyond me.
First time I took my MGB GT to a show I met loads of these people.
They're easy to see, they'll be the ones complaining you don't have original tyres on....
I'm with you Gary. The MG was what started the sports car "Thing" in the US after WWII
The way it wants to lift the inside tire and transfer weight, I wonder how it would do in some kind of dirt track?
Does it have rear stabilizer bar?
Some do, not sure if that does or if it's a coil over 4 link. That helps too in cornering than a stock MGB suspension.
Excellent series! I can't wait to see more episodes -- F2 Argo anyone? I'm also curious --what are you using as a chase/camera car? It obviously can keep up with these different vintage race cars.
Not the fastest. Not the fanciest. Just the FUNNEST! 🤙🏼😎
All I can say and other say it too
ITS FUN TO DRIVE!
Is this a 3 main motor ? , SU carbs ? , and 3 synchro gearbox ?
The works cars were 3 main and I am rather certain it was also a 3 synchro box. Carbs I’m not sure on this car but I know Stirling moss’ works MGB has a downdraft Weber
Awesome video
150HP.... Awesome.
More of a Triumph fan myself but the B is a hoot too.
I used to race my stock TR6 in a prodsports class against MGBs, and how I envied their stability in braking and cornering compared to my twitchy rear suspension! I was quite a bit faster than all but the hottest Bs in a straight line, of course,so it made for a fun contest!
Who said a 'B' can't be fun...! 'So much fun'
Delightful.
Why does the left tire lift so high and the right not so much?
Because driver seats on the right side
@@dominikpaluch true! thankyou, forgot how light and small these cars really are
Need bigger and stiffer anti roll bars.
The left front spends more time in the air than actually on terra firma.
Heavy for the time? No.... comparing it to the Elan? They're much smaller and made of aluminium and fibre-glass aren't they?
And his quote of under 600 kgs must be for a stripped out racer - they were close on 700 kg on the road.
I also think the Elan was significantly more money.
No shit!
Need some chassis stiffening, big sway bars and a twin cam head along with ITB’s
This is a historic works car designed to race in FIA pre66 appendix K historic races… there are plenty of faster MGBs… particularly V8 racers… but few which are as much fun to drive…
"I didn't see the appeal until I drove one."
is this the stock engine..?
Not by a long shot. The original had about 98 HP as new.
@@jeffhildreth9244 haha that’s what I figured 😂👍🏼
How much BHP does it have
This guy will run circles around most Hellcat fanboys in this jalopy.
Some of us think that the MGB is a fantastic car to own, whether for sport or everyday use. I own a 71 BGT Sebring race car replica and made a film asking the question 'Is the MGB the perfect classic car?' Here's the video: ua-cam.com/video/XklaMiZ9Yz4/v-deo.html
I want one,please.
Too much front roll stiffness.
World's fastest reliant robin? 😂😂😂
why is it that all car videos are always with some shit music just leave it out . its so disturbing.
Lol, that does not look right!! :D
Stop talking and let us hear the car.