The lines of the original MG MGB GT were the result of British-Italian collaboration. When Abington’s own design team was ...

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Sawatsky first tried to swap the blown-up V12 for a Ford 5.0 V8 engine donated to the project ... and completely rethink his MGB GT, using the same computational design tools that many engineers ...

Back in '73, the MGB GT V8 was launched. Its 3.5-liter all-aluminum Rover V-8 was derived from a Buick V-8 and soon became a classic "British" engine in the following years, powering everything ...

Based on the 1970 MGB GT, the now-called LE60 makes no compromise ... The LE60 is powered by a tweaked Rover V8 engine. In fact, all that the Frontline Cars kept, under the supervision of its ...

The LE60 (the grey car pictured above) is a fire-breathing road racer with a burly V8 ... the MGB, it’s based on the Pininfarina-designed B GT coupe and packs a 375hp Rover-derived engine ...

Beginning with an MGB donor car, Frontline applies chassis strengthening measures and specially-tuned Nitron coilovers to cope with the huge increase in power (an original MGB GT V8 produces ...

To celebrate three decades of trading, and the MGB’s 60th birthday, it has created the LE60, a limited-edition run of 30 special wide-body MGB GT ... engine means you can revel in the V8 ...

For the latter, power comes from a Rover V8 that offers MGB LE60 drivers 375 hp (280 kW/380 PS) and 297 lb-ft (403 Nm) of torque, which is nearly four times more than the engine it replaces.

Such is the case with Michael Wallhead’s one-of-a-kind 1979 MGB GT. The MGB “B-east” has ... The MGB in question features a 3.0-liter Jaguar AJV6 engine. Taken at face value, the engine ...

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