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Re: Anyone need a Sebring or custom body kit??? #201
tonyjennes Tony Jennes San Juan Capistrano, CA, California, USA 1953 Nash Rambler 1969 MG MGB GT	Posted: April 05, 2011 06:49PM Registered: 6 years ago Posts: 408

In reply to a post by 260mgb Tony, Here is a good picture of back of Cobra flare. Would look good on front and back. If you have 6" wide wheels you could make a spacer out of 2x4's(1 1/2" wide) to know how wide for coverage. Most guys with flares have 7-8" wide rims. My guess 3-4" wide.

Hey Jim, I like the look of that flare. I've got pics that I'll post later of a few flares on a 240z that look pretty good too.

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Re: Anyone need a Sebring or custom body kit??? #202
NitroRustlerDriver Andrew Bird Bend, Oregon, USA 1970 MG MGB GT "Giget"	Posted: April 05, 2011 06:59PM Registered: 8 years ago Posts: 2,664

In reply to a post by tonyjennes

In reply to a post by NitroRustlerDriver Are you only making a few of these, or will you continue to make them for a while? I'm interested in one, but don't have the funds at the moment.

Hey Andrew, no worries I'll probably be making a bunch of them over the next year. So far I've sold 5 of the valances with the splitter. They are made to order, so as soon as I get payment from people, it only takes a few days to pump out a part. Just let me know when you're able to order and I'll make one for ya.

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Re: Anyone need a Sebring or custom body kit??? #203
tonyjennes Tony Jennes San Juan Capistrano, CA, California, USA 1953 Nash Rambler 1969 MG MGB GT	Posted: April 07, 2011 12:34AM Registered: 6 years ago Posts: 408

fender flare ideas...

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Re: Anyone need a Sebring or custom body kit??? #204
tonyjennes Tony Jennes San Juan Capistrano, CA, California, USA 1953 Nash Rambler 1969 MG MGB GT	Posted: April 07, 2011 12:35AM Registered: 6 years ago Posts: 408

rear shot...

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Re: Anyone need a Sebring or custom body kit??? #205
tonyjennes Tony Jennes San Juan Capistrano, CA, California, USA 1953 Nash Rambler 1969 MG MGB GT	Posted: April 07, 2011 12:36AM Registered: 6 years ago Posts: 408

and another...

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Re: Anyone need a Sebring or custom body kit??? #206
tonyjennes Tony Jennes San Juan Capistrano, CA, California, USA 1953 Nash Rambler 1969 MG MGB GT	Posted: April 07, 2011 12:37AM Registered: 6 years ago Posts: 408

last one...

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Re: Anyone need a Sebring or custom body kit??? #207
Steve S Lost in the California mountains, USA 1925 Ford Model T 1939 Ford V8 1949 MG TC 1953 MG YB 1958 MG MGA → more	Posted: April 07, 2011 12:52AM Registered: 8 years ago Posts: 14,637

Kinda boy racer in my opinion. Bolt-on flares, ground effects, etc just don't lend themselves well to the simple lines of an MGB. The styling of an MGB was never intended to be flashy, so a lot of this stuff would just look out of place to my eyes. Z-cars have a much more modern appearance. Even though they're only eight years younger than the MGB (1970), they more closely resemble a 2000 car than a 1960 car.

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Re: Anyone need a Sebring or custom body kit??? #208
Speedracer Hap Waldrop Greenville, SC, USA 1967 MG MGB "The Biscuit"	Posted: April 07, 2011 05:03AM Registered: 7 years ago Posts: 20,328

I still like the Huffaker style better. The Corbra and other flares are just immediate flares and do little to none to incorporate the lines of the body. The flare I like the least that folks put on MGB is the Omni flare, it defiantely looks like after thought add-on, and it's shape has nothing to do with the lines of the MGB body. I like a flare that looks like it was part of the body of the MGB, rather than something simply added on, and thats what alot of the flares look like, then the other end of the spectrum is the Sebring flare which IMHO is just too buldging. Tony, but at the end of the day, you should make whatever people want to buy.

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Re: Anyone need a Sebring or custom body kit??? #209
tonyjennes Tony Jennes San Juan Capistrano, CA, California, USA 1953 Nash Rambler 1969 MG MGB GT	Posted: April 07, 2011 11:04AM Registered: 6 years ago Posts: 408

Yeah, I agree with you guys, just throwing some ideas out there to get a response. I put the 240z up there because it has similar proportions to the B. I'm thinking a happy medium somewhere between Huffaker and Sebring.

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Re: Anyone need a Sebring or custom body kit??? #210
Speedracer Hap Waldrop Greenville, SC, USA 1967 MG MGB "The Biscuit"	Posted: April 07, 2011 05:31PM Registered: 7 years ago Posts: 20,328

One thing to think about, is the line on the side of MGB body where the side trim goes, Huffaker triies to incorporate this body line into his design and I think that is a good thing, of course the stock side trim will not work with most of the flares, but most guys doing flares get rid oif the side trim anyway. Again it comes do to what the "buying" consumer would want.

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Re: Anyone need a Sebring or custom body kit??? #211
favedave David Church Saint Joseph, MO, USA 1967 MG MGB GT "Marilyn" 1995 Ford Probe 1995 Ford Probe "The Probe"	Posted: April 07, 2011 06:17PM Registered: 2 years ago Posts: 1,827

I've gotta say I think Hap is right, the Huffakers do the most justice to the B's body work. I've not 'pinned' mine on yet (I'm just a little chicken-it takes guts to cut into a perfectly good set of fenders) But I have taped them more or less in place to study the job ahead. Number 9 has them nicely feathered in and they don't seem to as abrupt (or dare I say it?) as agressive as the version I have.
It may be that mine will fit like those on #9 once I trim away the excess mounting lip. Or it could be that mine just bulge out more than the ones on #9.

I may or may not be putting mine on at this stage of my build. I want the car on the road and the Huffakers will need at least 15X6 wheels and 205X60s to look right (I'm talking $1,500 to $2,000 for wheels and tires, Probably Dayton's.)So my 15X4.5 Dunlops may have to suffice.

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Re: Anyone need a Sebring or custom body kit??? #212
tonyjennes Tony Jennes San Juan Capistrano, CA, California, USA 1953 Nash Rambler 1969 MG MGB GT	Posted: April 07, 2011 07:02PM Registered: 6 years ago Posts: 408

I just put up a vote on which flare is better... check it out...http://www.mgexperience.net/phorum/read.php?1,1720809

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Re: Anyone need a Sebring or custom body kit??? #213
tonyjennes Tony Jennes San Juan Capistrano, CA, California, USA 1953 Nash Rambler 1969 MG MGB GT	Posted: April 08, 2011 12:25AM Registered: 6 years ago Posts: 408

Pic of the Sebring and "Tony Edition" valances

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Re: Anyone need a Sebring or custom body kit??? #214
Speedracer Hap Waldrop Greenville, SC, USA 1967 MG MGB "The Biscuit"	Posted: April 08, 2011 05:19AM Registered: 7 years ago Posts: 20,328

In reply to a post by favedave I may or may not be putting mine on at this stage of my build. I want the car on the road and the Huffakers will need at least 15X6 wheels and 205X60s to look right (I'm talking $1,500 to $2,000 for wheels and tires, Probably Dayton's.)So my 15X4.5 Dunlops may have to suffice.

Dave, have you considered doing a bolt on conversion to your car, thats exactly what I did to my 67 GT, I did Jeff's method, by leaving the spoke wheel rear end housing in the car, and running bolt hubs fornt and rear, a wheel spacer on the rear and longer studs, it a preety easy conversion, and Bruno did a great job of ducumenting this on the library here. It's nice because I could use the stackable 1/8" wheel spacing I had to tune where I wanted the wheel and tire to be. You get aways form expensie sline hubs and all thepitflal thay can have and you save big time on wheel cost.

Ok getting to wheels , we have the 15x7 at VTO in 0 offset in Classic 8 and Retro 4, and will have this same size and offset in the new Leamans by summer time, and they will be consderabley less than spline drive wheels, also the 15x7 0 offest works great with the flared MGB ad for bring tthe wheel and tire out to the flares, and it exactly what I will be running on my 68 GT SCCA race car, the problem is with most wheels this size they come in way too much offset for FWD cars with stock fenders, and we made these wheels for SCCA race cars with flared fenders, so it somewhat a unique size and offset. Oh and we also now have 16x7 and 16x8 for folks doing something alittle different.

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Re: Anyone need a Sebring or custom body kit??? #215
Speedracer Hap Waldrop Greenville, SC, USA 1967 MG MGB "The Biscuit"	Posted: April 08, 2011 05:31AM Registered: 7 years ago Posts: 20,328

Just to give you guys a idea on what I will be doing with Tony's front valance, I don't need a lower opening as my oil cooler on my 1967 GT is up on the radiator shelf, and I see no need to move in on my street car, so I'll carefully cut the opening out at the seams, then reglass the opening flush with the rest of the valance, then reglass it from behind,and smooth out on the front so to look like it has no opening. Now I will probably make a smaller center front opening, that will probaby be a fake, just a black painted retangular, with SS screen and aluminum framing around it, I think the small fake opening will look good and no one will be the wiser that it is not functionable. Just my taste, and using Tony's valcne to get the look I'm after, that the neat thing about fiberglass it is easiy to rework and play with to get the custom look you want.

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Re: Anyone need a Sebring or custom body kit??? #216
favedave David Church Saint Joseph, MO, USA 1967 MG MGB GT "Marilyn" 1995 Ford Probe 1995 Ford Probe "The Probe"	Posted: April 08, 2011 10:09AM Registered: 2 years ago Posts: 1,827

Hap,

I've thought about going with the retro 8s (your's of course) It would be cheaper and stronger but I have always loved a look that was very popular with club racers in the fifties and sixties of white wire wheels. I had them on my 55 Healey BN-1 100-4 and painted my Dunlops that way when I first got my 67 GT. Of course I could paint the retro 8s that way (when the minilights came out I saw some painted but they were usually a sort of hazard yellow, which was pretty cool looking too)But damn me, despite the problems I've had with the splined hubs (I put on the brakes in the Healey, the drum stopped but the front wheel didn't--yeowee!)I love the look of the two earred knock-off and I just purchased a new set of four with the MG crest in the middle. So, since the retro 8s don't have the plate for them, it looks like I'll just have to save my pennies for what I'm looking for. As for the flairs, I'm caught between putting them on and running my Dunlops until...or just fixing the stock fenders, then cutting them up to put on the flairs when I have the wheels and tires to match. My fear is that if I don't do it now I never will.

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Re: Anyone need a Sebring or custom body kit??? #217
armycamacho Miguel Camacho FL, USA 1980 MG MGB	Posted: April 11, 2011 06:16PM Registered: 2 years ago Posts: 6

I am very interested in one!

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Re: Anyone need a Sebring or custom body kit??? #218
Speedracer Hap Waldrop Greenville, SC, USA 1967 MG MGB "The Biscuit"	Posted: April 11, 2011 06:22PM Registered: 7 years ago Posts: 20,328

In reply to a post by favedave Hap,

I've thought about going with the retro 8s (your's of course) It would be cheaper and stronger but I have always loved a look that was very popular with club racers in the fifties and sixties of white wire wheels. I had them on my 55 Healey BN-1 100-4 and painted my Dunlops that way when I first got my 67 GT. Of course I could paint the retro 8s that way (when the minilights came out I saw some painted but they were usually a sort of hazard yellow, which was pretty cool looking too)But damn me, despite the problems I've had with the splined hubs (I put on the brakes in the Healey, the drum stopped but the front wheel didn't--yeowee!)I love the look of the two earred knock-off and I just purchased a new set of four with the MG crest in the middle. So, since the retro 8s don't have the plate for them, it looks like I'll just have to save my pennies for what I'm looking for. As for the flairs, I'm caught between putting them on and running my Dunlops until...or just fixing the stock fenders, then cutting them up to put on the flairs when I have the wheels and tires to match. My fear is that if I don't do it now I never will.

David, FWIW, I always get myself in trouble when I announce these sorts of things smiling smiley

, but we have listen to you all and will be working on a VTO spline drive wheel in the future, I can't say when the project will be done, but it atleast it's being planned at this point, which was not the case that long ago.

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Re: Anyone need a Sebring or custom body kit??? #219
favedave David Church Saint Joseph, MO, USA 1967 MG MGB GT "Marilyn" 1995 Ford Probe 1995 Ford Probe "The Probe"	Posted: April 11, 2011 07:59PM Registered: 2 years ago Posts: 1,827

Hummmm 15 X 7 Spline drive retro 8s?

Hap, Oh you devil.

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Re: Anyone need a Sebring or custom body kit??? #220
tonyjennes Tony Jennes San Juan Capistrano, CA, California, USA 1953 Nash Rambler 1969 MG MGB GT	Posted: April 12, 2011 12:19AM Registered: 6 years ago Posts: 408

In reply to a post by armycamacho I am very interested in one!

Hey Miguel, for more info you can email me at tonyjennes@yahoo.com

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