A 304-Horse "Bespoke" MGB? Sure, Why Not

Saw this in a TTAC comment today. Man, I did not need to know about these.

The company is called Frontline Developments. I suppose you could think of them as "the Singer of MGBs" but that's not entirely fair to either company, as Frontline appears to focus on performance and luxury improvements rather than adopting an "everything is important" approach to CNC-milled heater vents and whatnot.

Would you spend a hundred grand on an MGB with 304 horsepower? What else could you get for your money that would do the same thing? Given that we live in a world where, increasingly, people either don't give a shit about throwing away $100k or they will never see that much disposable income during their entire lives, it probably doesn't matter what these cars cost.

If I could borrow $100k somewhere, I'd buy a Viper. Because, like Zola said, Ima full Viper typa dude. But if I won the lottery, I'd buy MG Abingdon Editions in both roadster and GT form. Plus one for my father, who struggled heroically with the conflict between his city-boy's sense of mechanical unconcern and his purchase of a new 1979 MG Midget back in the day. I can still remember standing with him at the side of Tremont Road in Upper Arlington, maybe ten years old at most, trying to figure out why his 4,300-mile Midget had just stopped dead for no reason. Neither one of us owned anything like a comprehensive toolbox, let alone Whitworth-gauge wrenches or something like that. In general, we're not a mechanically-inclined family. I think I have the most dirt under my fingers of anybody to ever bear the name and I can barely change an alternator.

Yet it's worth noting that Dad couldn't really bring himself to hate his Midget. There's just something about those Little British Cars. With that said, however, I assume that "waiting for the flatbed" is not part of the $100,000 MG Abingdon Edition ownership experience. That's the kind of authenticity without which I could definitely live.