After living with it for a few days and taking it to a little show yesterday where it received much attention, mostly positive I have a few observations.
I find it fascinating from an engineering perspective. It seems to represent a transitional period from a time when things were generic in the early 70’s and all bl cars used the same switches and lights and fittings and fixtures to a time later in the 80s when everything was bespoke and nothing was interchangeable. There’s lots of multi way electrical connectors each colour coded and uniquely shaped to aid assembly. Yet the headlights are still sealed beam units!
There’s an attempt to used moulded plastic for the dash but because materials hadn’t been developed its hard and brittle and has to be constructed of (I think) 12 components screwed together and the screws are visible.
It drives really well, no knocks or rattles, minimal scuttle shake, yet the doors are stiff and need adjusting. There’s almost no buffeting, even at 60mph the cabin is quiet and warm with the top down.
The design is so odd and futuristic, you can see the vision Harris Mann had of the future and understand why ultimately it became a dead end.
It’s more MX5 than MGB and somewhere in between dynamically
I’m liking it more and more.
