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In a (mud) flap!
I do think certain cars from the 80s and earlier don't look fully dressed without mudflaps.
The 'proper' Austin Rover mudflaps for MG Maestros use a red colour-scheme which myself and p/os have moved away from on MGT #396, back to traditional brown & cream.
So I decided to make some up myself, buying two pairs of <<these rubber mudflaps with integral clamps>> along with a pack of <<these self-adhesive plastic MG badges>>.
The car is parked down a tight driveway so I can't get to the n/s yet, but this is a shot of one of them on the o/s rear:
I think it's good and finishes-off the 'look'.
As a stroke of unplanned happy cosmetic coincidence, they are almost precisely the exact width of the tyres, which gives a visibly-pleasing synergy on a car where neither the tyres nor the mudflaps are the 'correct' ones. On the above shot they look a bit offset because to avoid flash-blowout I shot slightly from the right and tilted the camera left.
The 'proper' Austin Rover mudflaps for MG Maestros use a red colour-scheme which myself and p/os have moved away from on MGT #396, back to traditional brown & cream.
So I decided to make some up myself, buying two pairs of <<these rubber mudflaps with integral clamps>> along with a pack of <<these self-adhesive plastic MG badges>>.
The car is parked down a tight driveway so I can't get to the n/s yet, but this is a shot of one of them on the o/s rear:
I think it's good and finishes-off the 'look'.
As a stroke of unplanned happy cosmetic coincidence, they are almost precisely the exact width of the tyres, which gives a visibly-pleasing synergy on a car where neither the tyres nor the mudflaps are the 'correct' ones. On the above shot they look a bit offset because to avoid flash-blowout I shot slightly from the right and tilted the camera left.