RE: Why standard?

[Nick Pitt <nick.pitt@bbc.co.uk>]

Surely as in many things you Americans are still doing things the way we 
taught you, only we do them different now. Or something like that :-)

          Nick ('73 B)
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From: mgs-owner
To: MG List
Subject: Why standard?
Date: 08 November 1996 04:03

Here's a newbie question... If MGs are british cars, why are all the nuts
bolts etc on these cars standard instead of metric?  Were they just being
conciderate to us Americans?
Wade Shanley
wadesh@msn.com
74 MGB
75 MGB