Mabel and Romeo mgb Designed by Sir Alec Issigonis

Designed by Sir Alec Issigonis and launched in 1959

despite winning on the road

special editions of the Mini LE model were introduced

and it was never a commercial success selling just 9002 cars in its 2 years of production

Mabel and Romeo mgb Designed by Sir Alec IssigonisFollowing some success at Sebring with the MGB, it was decided that BMC should produce a small number of highly modified MGCs to compete in the Prototype class of sports car racing. This resulted in the original Sebring MGC GTS cars that were raced successfully in the late 1960s. To our knowledge only two examples were completed and they were named Romeo and Mabel after the first three letters of their registration numbers. Whilst both Romeo and Mabel