The MGOC buyer's guide to the MGC, MGB GT V8 & RV8

Jonathan Kimber MGOC Technical Advisor, talks us through the six and eight cylinder MG variants which were loosely based on the MGB platform. These relatively low volume production cars are really desirable and have a niche following.
MGC: 00:38
MGB GT V8: 03:45
RV8: 06:42
© MG Owners' Club 2023

[@americanpatriot2422]

Outstanding video and presentation.

[@Ucoriorya]

Respect to the author 👏

[@MGB-learning]

Outstanding Video.... I love to have the MG RV8. Here in USA, they never imported them (To my knowledge) due to Smog regulations.

[@ravington666]

Those 17" wheels on the RV8 are spot on !

[@marknelson5929]

Great review, back in my days living in UK I owned an MGC GT with Stage 3 Downton tune - incredible car, sounded awesome. I'd aways fancied a GT V8 though and I had a mate who had a Glacier White factory car, which only cemented my desire for one. Due to prices of factory V8s I started looking at conversions and finally found a lovely 73 GT in dark blue which had been owned for some 27 years by the man who did the conversion way back. He was an engineer. He used a tuned Rover SD1 V8 and the associated LT77 gearbox and other slight mods, but the whole car looked totally stock 1.8 litre plus its rostyles and no V8 badges - until you turned the key, a wolf in sheeps clothing. It was a lovely car and performed and handled much better than the factory V8s.
Still one of my favourite MGBs was a 1967 Sandy Beige GT (stunning colour) I owned 35 years ago! It had a Webasto, black leather white piping, wire wheels, electric door mirror, redesigned heater/blower cooling system using eyeball vents on the dash, large centre console/arm rest in leather with space underneath, raised seats by an inch (makes a big difference I feel) and a steering column mounted overdrive switch based on a second indicator stalk so you could flick in and out of overdrive using a finger without taking your right hand off the wheel. All these mods were done in the late 60s by its first owner, all done to a very high standard. I sold it in 1988 and it appeared on the market 5 months back, still in fine fettle - sadly I missed it though! The clever overdrive setup had been changed to a gearstick switch.

[@mgmgf1996]

I loved my 67 MGB roadster it was modified and and went pretty well, at 20 in the early eighties, I still wish I had that car today

[@leerose9436]

Love ❤my MGRV8! What a car to drive and own 👍🙏🏻 Nice Video 😀

[@jonbuckley5175]

Interesting video. However, the MG RV8 dashboard is elm burr not walnut.

[@elroyfudbucker6806]

Right from the start, I see that the man's name is Kimber, the same as Cecil Kimber, the founder of MG Motors. I wonder if he's related?

[@TheMGOwnersClub]

No relation, just a coincidence!

[@mgmgf1996]

Fantastic cars, great video, it would be impossible to pick one of these cars but maybe the C

[@raypurchase801]

The MGB is the perfect classic. Inexpensive to buy. Cheap to maintain. An excellent owners club. Every spare part is readily available. Improved Bs, as remanufactured by Frontline, are borderline-supercars.
I myself own a '69 Alfa Romeo 1750 GTV which has greater bragging-rights. A LOVELY car but I'd have tens of £thousands more in the bank if I'd owned a B instead.

[@jonathanpardoe8722]

After many MG's of all models I still retain an RWA Midget cos I love the A series lump . That said , after a trio of B's I came to a definate conclusion that If I wanted to continue driving a roof off car in the UK It had to be a Sunbeam Alpine . and going from a B to an Alpine was a revelation ....gone was the antquated old lever arm shockers in place of telescopic all round , gone was the nasty baulky non synchro box of the b into the delightful all synchro Sunbeam precision engineered bos with overdrive Gone was the cramped boot of the b and in its place a simply vast boot of the Alpine due to the dual wing mounted fueltanks then there is the driving experience of the wonderful microcell seating of the Alpine rather than the sit up and beg B the beautiful rear lift bonnet allowing easy access to the alloy headed 1725 engine as oppose to the gutless A60 Cambridge lump and braking that simply was so good that nothing required changing for the instllation of the Carol Shelby V8 tiger Then I look underneath and see not one but two chassis !! No wonder the thing was able to take the V8 with no mods as oppose to the MGB chassis that ends abrubtly somewhere under the drivers seat and we have not even mentioned the "Crack of doom " on the MGB door under the quarter light that nobody talks about . Nah !! the Sunbeam is in reality a huge leap over the B