Meeting
up with MG enthusiasts in Norway
Halvor Asland is planning a V8 transplant for his MGB Roadster
and is close to getting underway.
Report from Norway by Victor Smith. More
Annual New Years Day classic car event in Oslo. More
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Even
in the depths of Winter, MG enthusiasts along with
fellow classic sportscar owners enjoy a New Years
Day tour around
the Oslo area. By tradition all entrants turn off
their heaters and drive top down! This is intended
to equalise the situation with enthusiasts driving
early models where a cockpit heater was not available!
On very cold days, passengers travel in artic quality
sleeping bags to keep warm. This year it was not
too cold by Norwegian standards |
but
Halvor mentioned that one year the temperature was
minus 25C - then it was a serious matter keeping
warm!
I met up with three MG enthusiast at Halvor Asland's
home at Vollen near Oslo. Here Havlor is outside
his workshop with his wife Hanna's MGF under cover.
Inside his workshop Halvor is preparing a V8 transplant
in his rubber bumpered MGB Roadster and has a Hoyle
front and rear suspension upgrade to put on too
together with a Granada LSD and a T5 gearbox which
will be mated to an ex TVR V8. |
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