Posted on 03/06/2024 1:02:19 PM PST by Red Badger
Will Lucas be involved?
And Girling lever shocks. Don’t forget the lever shocks.
Nice looking car, but...in my heart, it will never be an MG.
LOL, here is my MG back in 1979 at The Drum Corps International Finals in Birmingham, Alabama with a bunch of drum corps kids I let sit in my car.
The one in the driver seat is wearing my squadron hat...:)
(I absolutely must have been in a fine mood that day to let them sit in the car, especially the one with the ice cream!)
Heh, that car (my first car I bought) taught me all I need to know about being a car mechanic! And exponentially increased my colorful vocabulary at the same time!
do the new ones come with their own mechanic like the old original ones?
LOL, OMG. How true.
But I did love it. I put about 130,000 miles on mine, that has to be a record of some sort.
And that “Inca Yellow” color...same as mine, was...Chartreuse. It was a weird color.
At night, under streetlights, it looked like a weird brown or bile green, but during the day, I loved it!
No, no, no...you gotta bring your OWN mechanic...yourself. I have so many stories about that car. How I loved it.
If it has the electronics of my friend’s MGB, the wiper lever will turn on the radio...assuming it even starts!
An exhaust like this:
And I custom built a console, complete with black naugahyde (how many Naugs I had to kill I won't say) with an oil pressure gauge, oil temperature gauge and...one other gauge I cannot remember. Also put a really nice tape player in there, too.
How I loved that car, but boy, it took a pound of flesh out of me. I spent many hours on my back!
Great photo of kids being kids! Do they do that anymore? Also, somebody seems to have forgotten to tell them about racial tension/white privilege...
It was my first convertible and I bought it when I was stationed at Ft. Riley. I remember driving out in through the prairie on the night I bought it, with the top down and just marveled at the stars from horizon to horizon.
Not so grand during Kansas hail storms...
“If it has the electronics of my friend’s MGB, the wiper lever will turn on the radio...assuming it even starts!”
Oh, the horn button starts it, the light switch runs the wipers. It’s the Lucas way!
Had a TR-4A. The horn would beep and one headlight would flicker every time I hit a bump.
Nope.
TR’s were the sexiest Britts around in the late 60’s, early 70’s. The others where priced out of reach. I multiple MG’s and would have had a TR4 had I fit in it. I am 6.3... made for English guys around 5.11
I’m only 6’2” but don’t think I could have fit a TR4 either. The TR2 was the more traditional style and had more leg room. MGB, no way.
Electric? You gotta be kidding. Does England have the infrastructure to charge electric vehicles? I’ll bet those brits would much more prefer a stud performance gas engine, with a great exhaust system. But, I may be wrong.
I still prefer my 67 MGB roadster that I drove off the showroom floor in 1967 and have in my garage today.
Wonderful memories made in that little car!
We grew up together.
British and electric. Never a good mix. Loved MG's but their wiring was a disaster.
When I purchased my car, I was so taken with owning my own car that I didn't get three miles on the highway, and the engine died.
Dead out of gas...and that in the gas shortage of 1978!
I was such a fool. But how I enjoyed driving it around, top down.
Here is my best friend I went into the Navy with, both of us became jet mechanics. I went to an attack squadron on the East Coast, he went to Miramar on the West Coast.
In the picture above, we went on a road trip up to New Brunswick and Nova Scotia after we got out of the Navy...:)
What a grand time that was...a grand time.
LOL...they might as well soak the car in gasoline every time you start it up, in preparation for the coming Bonfire of The Batteries!
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