on 1/29/02 8:33 PM, Kai M. Radicke at kmr@pil.net wrote:
>> Hmmm... doesn't look like you'd get much cooling through that 1"
>> high grill opening... and it's still sitting way too high off the ground.
> I
>> wouldn't think AM would have stood for that look for long ---
>> decidedly inelegant.
>
> It probably has comparable cooling to any late rubber bumper MGB, you've got
> to remember that they have two electric cooling fans in the engine bay also.
> So I doubt cooling was much of an issue.
Possibly. What prompted the comment was that the opening appeared to be
perhaps 25% of the area of even a RB grill, and less than 10% of the area of
a CB grill. As you say, they didn't have time to test it.
>
> I can't emphasis enough, the Aston MGB was a MAJOR rush job! I think it was
> completed in a period of a few days... like I noted originally, the final
> product (in 1980) didn't even have a functional fuel cap. It only gained a
> usable filler access panel and cap on the left rear fender when Aston sold
> it to a private member, and by law a car obviously required this feature!
>
> Another lister noted the windscreen height, and they felt the original
> roadster's windscreen was not a bad height. Well I disagree, being 6'2" the
> top horizontal of the windscreen blocked my vision entirely when attempting
> to look at traffic lights (while stopped). Either slouching or straining
> was required to view the stop lights. I would have loved a taller
> windscreen.
Quite true. Though it looks strange with the taller screen, perhaps one
would get used to the look -- it's certainly more practical. But then
there's the issue of increased frontal area... <g>. And one wonders what
the soft top would wind up looking like?
Thanks for posting the picture.
--
Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires
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