Shallow? Has to be given 1/2 hour to cover all that. And it was aimed at
people with general interest in older cars rather than MGB enthusiasts (even
though there are probably more of us than for any other make or model ...)
Loved that morph myself, captured it when it was shown in the UK some years
ago and posted it at www.mgb-stuff.org.uk/images/mgb5.avi But did you
notice how the early side-lights slid across the front wing to the later
position?
----- Original Message -----
From: "nxhio xebeaio" <Rmartin@yit.co.il>
To: <mgs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 9:43 AM
Subject: The Car's the star
> Managed to catch (and tape) the MGB installment of "The Car's the Star" on
> BBCworld yesterday.
> The general gist of it was "early B - good, C - bad, B-V8 - good, late B -
> bad (but not as bad as Tri*mph TR7), BL - very bad, Metro/Maestro - very
> bad, RV8 - good (too bad).
> A pretty shallow survey, really - fun, but I didn't learn anything I
didnt
> already know.
> The interviews with Roche Bently, Clausager, and a few others (the guy who
> made the first pre-factory V8) were nice.
> Plenty of good shots of B's flying down country roads.
> And I liked the opening sequence where they took various views of a
junkyard
> B and morphed it into a perfect restoration.
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