Race Cars and Motorsports

Rick (mowog1) asked on another forum:

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Anyone know if there are any DOCUMENTED 1967 Sebring MGB's (red w/white hard top) here in the USA??

If anyone can supply good quality detailed photos and information about these cars, we'd be delighted to host them here on the British V8 website!

In the meantime... here's some eye candy (from the 1968 race).

Dig that hair man!

Ahh....the inspiration for my V8 roadster. Never tire of looking at the originals.

Wouldn't it be cool if MG had put Sebring-style flares on the MGB GT V8 from the factory! If I could have been running the show (instead of Sir Donald Stokes etc.), I'd have told MG to strip the MGB GT V8 of the standard MGB's chrome and fit 15" wheels offset to fill the Sebring fenders. When the MGB GT V8 came out, most of the magazine reviewers complained that there wasn't enough syling difference to differentiate the new model. Those flares sure would have done the job!!!

Agreed.

What sizes wheel and 'tyres' were they using? how can i get my hands on those? :-) I wonder if britishwirewheel.com would hook me up with a set like that. Anyone notice the width and offset??

-BMC.

Curtis-

Great pic of the ex-Work's MGC GTS' at Sebring, but for the record it's the 1969 event, not the '68 rendition. '69 was the only time "Mabel" (MBL 456E) and "Remo" (RMO 699F) ran together at Sebring. I was there (age 12) but I still remember how wicked
cool (bitching would have been the term a 12 year old from Cocoa Beach would have used then...LOL) the GTS' looked with those
wide flares.

1969 would be "Mabels" third trip to Sebring, she ran the '67 12 Hours as a hybrid MGC/B GT, using the MGC torsion bar suspension & GTS alloy body but an overbored 2004cc stage 5 MGB engine, since the big 6 wasn't ready yet. Because she was neither fish nor fowl at the time the rear hatch chrome emblems simply read "MG GT" and that's all she wears through the present day. As an aside Provence-Moulage got that (literally) small detail correct when they did a 1/43 resin kit of the GTS'. "Mabel" ran solo in the '68 Sebring 12 Hours in the Prototype class as race #44 with center lock Minilites, vice the wire wheels seen above. For the '69 race both GTS' were ostensibly private entries.

-Rick

Excellent information. Thanks Rick!