gone !

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[Moderator]

Suggestions?

Perhaps "Dark Siders"?

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[billymgb1000]

Yes it's the DARK SIDERS. I second that.

[BlownMGB-V8]

There already is a name: Spurious Bastards.

Jim

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[DiDueColpi]

It would take Jim B's blessing but wouldn't a "Roadmaster conversion" be fitting?
You could shorten it up to an RMC or even an RMC2
The Roadmaster handle has a significant meaning to our crowd so it seems a natural to me.

Live like you mean it.
Fred

[Moderator]

IF anything is going to be "official" should there be a list of possibilities and a legitimate "poll" taken with a winner, or is a duscussion enough?

IMHO, one of the best things about our community is we aren't a club.  I suppose someone can "vote with their feet", but other than that we simply don't have polls and we don't call anything "official". (No dues. No membership roll. Very little politics here!)

You're right.... There are a WHOLE LOT more MG V8s and V6s than modified Porsches or Healeys. The number is easily into five digits. (Just adding up the factory MGB GT V8s, factory MG RV8s, and  Costello conversions you start with over 5000 cars.) Our community is obviously more diverse than the other communities mentioned above in just about every conceivable sense too.  

How could we poll or survey our community? A message board thread might get read by a couple hundred people. Maybe. You'd probably have to do an email campaign to reach a bigger audience. About 4000 people have registered to use the BritishV8 message board. (So, that's ~4000 verified, unique email addresses.) But that number included other sorts of enthusiasts besides MG Vx owners.

Some of my favorite people are involved with "Spurious", but I don't really know what it's about. Looks like a club. Acts like a club... sort of. (I personally don't have a lot of interest in clubs.) How many people are involved with Spurious? Maybe 20 or 30?

I think you're just gonna have to pick a name that resonates with you... But the idea of a thread for suggested names is very cool even if there is no official vote.

[BlownMGB-V8]

Curtis, I have no idea how you've avoided membership in the Spurious Bastards for so long. I'm sure now that you've mentioned it that will soon be remedied however.

Jim

[BlownMGB-V8]

"Roadmaster" is a Buick trademark, has been for a very long time. It seems to generally refer to one of their top of the line automobiles with their largest of engines, but I do not know the exact criteria. We appended MG to it for our club build with the 455 Buick big block which we completed in Grand Turismo fashion, and as such it lives up to the name. "MG-Roadmaster" is a fitting description for that car, but I would not consider it wise to begin using the "Roadmaster" name as a description of a general class of cars. Buick would have to take notice of that.

Jim

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[Burrogs]

The "Spurious Bastards" moniker seems like it's too much of an inside joke that needs explaining.  I'm not sure many will know what suprious means, lol.  To me it's more of a "skeleton crew" name.

[trmgv8]

Did Ian Pender start Suprious @#$%&. If remember back at MG 2000 Ian had a T-Shirt with Suprious @#$%& on it. I asked him
if I could get one. He said no it was only for a select group.

[ex-tyke]

The Spurious movement was started back in 1995 at the bar of the Cal-Neva hotel at Lake Tahoe at the NAMGBR convention. Rick Ingram, Robin Weatherall, Mike Satur, and Ian Pender are the original founding fathers!
If Rick wants to expand on the history of the "club", let him speak now or forever hold his peace.

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[MGBV8]

I think we should be inclusive to all British marques & forever be referred to as LBC Bastids.  

Edit: Notice that Bastids did not get censored?  

[BlownMGB-V8]

Well, as a group the Spurious Bass-tards are self limited by their original terms. New members are inducted by invitation only, and only the original founding members of the group can nominate new members. Once that group passes on, so will the Spurious Bass-tards. I don't know exactly how big the group is, somewhere around 60 members I'd guess.

Edit: But I would not hesitate to refer to an MG conversion of any sort as a "Spurious Bastard".

Jim

[mowog1]

The Spurious V8 Club was born one evening during NAMGBR's MG95 at the Cal-Neva Lodge (North Lake Tahoe just outside of Truckee...half of the lodge is in California, the other half in Nevada. The casino and showrrom is in Nevada. Frank Sinatra was at one time part owner.).

John Twist had recently announced that the 1996 UML Summer Party would feature the MGB V8. The late Bob Mason was finishing up his (very nicely done) clone of a factory MGB/GT V8 and had asked that John create two classes of V8....one for the "Factory V8" (of which he felt he owned) and one for the "spurious ones". (Many of us viewed Bob's car as being spurious in its own right, knowing the history of the car).

Ian Pender, Robin Weatherall, Mike Satur, and I were sitting at the bar of the Cal-Neva discussing this over mandatory adult beverages. None of us knew what the word "spurious" meant......so I went up to the front desk and borrowed a dictionary.

Imagine our reaction when we discovered it was defined as "b@st@rd son".....we all went home after the event....and Ian Pender officially organized the Spurious V8 Club shortly thereafter.

We are a rather eclectic group of b@st@rds.....and the Spurious V8 Club is a closed group....membership is by invitation only via nomination by a member in good standing and admission is granted only after approval by charter members.

[mowog1]

BTW....I fail to see why the word b a s t a r d is censored here.

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[Moderator]

Obviously, the car being sold is an "MGA V8". I don't think that term is inadequate  Do you feel it's too specific?  When I refer to my car as an MGB GT V8, the cognicinti know what I'm talking about and nod approvingly. Very few people fail to grasp that  MGBs with V8 engines are special.

I often use the term "hot rod" too. That term (correctly) implies that the car is highly modified and customized. I've occasionally taken my car to Hot Rod car shows, and it's been well received. "Hot rodder"? Why not?

[Dan B]

TeamEVIL has a good ring to it.  Name your car that.  The Team Evil MGV8.