Practically Classics Forum

Hi - can anyone recommend good websites or car clubs that focus on the MGBV8 or the MGRV8? One of the few consolations of hitting 50 is you can be excused for thinking that the past was always better! thanks

This guy http://mgv8.homestead.com/ supplied all the parts I needed when I had my project. He is a wealth of knowledge and a really helpful bloke

I don't have a lot to do with clubs etc but the MG Car Club have a V8 register (I think some can be concours obsessive, down to things like throttle cable colour; it was joked that one of them used to only pump his tyres up in Abingdon, so he had the right air) - http://mgcc.co.uk/registers-topmenu-36/ ... ister.html.

My car has only done 47000 from new, so it's not had a massive amount of work done to it, other than what you might call improvements to spec.(Such as uprating of the weak MGC derived transmission). I've always had the impression that http://www.ukmgparts.com/ set out to do things properly; I know that cars they had prepared, for one of the Pirelli Marathons, were good.

The MGV8 (Whether BGT V8 or RV8) is a lot of car for the money, especially compared with the cars they indirectly replaced. I feel the BGT V8 could have been developed into a formidable rally car and wonder what values would now be, if it had taken on and beaten Ford