And for most of my life, I agreed with everyone — the chrome-bumper MGB, with its classic British roadster looks, pleasing chrome grille, and, yes, lovely, delicate chrome bumpers I just thought ...

A simple calculus has long guided assessment of the MGB: Chrome bumpers equals British classic; rubber bumpers equals British Leyland junk. Yet this prejudice unfairly maligns thousands of cars ...

This car, however, was built in October of 1973 and has the more desirable chrome bumpers. It also has the aluminum hood from an earlier MGB, plus nearly all its original trim and glass.

The chrome bumpers of a mid-to-late 1960s MG MGB are preferred by purists, as opposed to the black rubber bumpers found on examples from 1974 on. Darin Schnabel, courtesy of RM Sotheby’s Still ...