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Originally Posted by Gilly
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......... I notice it alot driving my Sprite, man it might be that the car is so small, but people really seem like they want to drive right over me with that thing.....................................
Gilly
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Gilly.....question is....why did you buy a LBC anyway?
I would have maybe spent that much restoration effort on perhaps a TR3 or a
Healey.
With those at least they have a little better power but a lot more value too.
Reason is...I drove many of those in the UK back in 1960's. Used to deliver them brand new to dearships all over the UK from Birmingham and Abingdon Works..
I had to deliver a MK11 Mini Cooper once...'66 or 67 ish....was going to get a hi-po engine, so I could thrash the living daylights out of it delivering it.....was approching first big roundabout after coming through the Dartford Tunnel at a little over 90, hit the brakes hard and finished up in the weeds on the central reservation/median.
...later at the shop, found the brake caliper on one side had only been drilled on one half of the caliper !
Best one was a bright yellow MBGTV8......wot brakes !....burnt them out in the first two turns !
The fastest, but most deadly was the Sunbeam Tiger V8..200hp...the front brakes where the same as the regular Alpine...... solid rotor, single pot Girlings with Ferodo pads.
Now, there's a car I would restore.
Those where the dayz
PS.....wot about a Cosmo tri rotor in the Sprite ?
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