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And btw, Mac. I'm STILL waitin' to hear that "explanation" and the logistics involved regarding those "man(o)euvers" to which we earlier alluded!  
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Keith: I actually owned a 1974 MG in the 90's. I never had much trouble with it and i drove it around town several summers.
I would say that i was never that happy with the handling, it was juddery in turns and swayed a lot. You might want to find a way to try something like a used miata for comparison.
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My MGB had monster understeer in the corners and was really dependent on good tires, but, still fun and loved that long round hood shape to the headlights... in British Racing Green color, uppps colour. 
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Some cars back in the day didn't have 1st-gear synchromesh, and so that might have caused the problem with Eddie's father's MG.
Yep the 73 bug is like that also.
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the TR4 series was always my favo(u)rite Triumph automobile model, and no matter what colo(u)r they were.
Lots of people liked the TR4. A friend of mine has one in pieces in a second stall of his garage, for 25 YEARS! I always thought the TR3 was the best looking car. Classic good looks, lots of swoopy lines. I thought they "modernized" the body style with the 4, so I never cared for them so much. After the TRs, Triumph spitfires were the best looking.
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This has been a pretty good thread. I've decided to let go the idea of owning a MG for now. I say that, yet I know myself... if something catches my eye I'll be all over it like poop on a blanket.  
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poop on a blanket.
Got any pics?!! 
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Sounds like the '74 might make for a nice project car if that's what your looking for. I had a '73 Butterscotch MGB back in the early eighty's that I took to Germany during an assignment at Hahn Air Base. It was a fun little car for after work and weekends driving to the wine/beer fests along the Mosel river. Gee, I may have to look for another one after I retire, for a hobby project. 
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..., I may have to look for another one after I retire, for a hobby project.
Me too. 
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And btw, Mac. I'm STILL waitin' to hear that "explanation" and the logistics involved regarding those "man(o)euvers" to which we earlier alluded!
She was 5 ft 93lbs, small, nibble and not too fast, like her MG. The rear deck of an MG is the only body part structurally sound enough to avoid bodywork post performance. Her name was Tonya and the MG was sans luggage rack. Loved driving her........car. 
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
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Where there's a will there's a way. Some years back a woman at the Iowa Women's Prison was impregnated by a railroad worker through a chain link fence. An MG Midget would be downright comfortable compared to that.
We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.
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Thanks for FINALLY explaining how that all went down..err, I mean happened, Mac. However, JUST one more question here, ol' buddy. When you wrote the following: Quote:
She was 5 ft 93lbs, small, nibble and not too fast
When you slowly "nibbled" the lovely and I assume nimble little Tonya, did she like that or did she object to it???
(...OR was SHE doin' all that "nibbling"?)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Yes, there was much slow nibbling going on, but I meant "nimble". She was a gymnast studying library sciences. "Nibbling" "Nimble", these are the results of dashing off post between tax returns. Can't wait till April 17th, maybe I'll look up Tonya. 
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
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crap guys, get a room! LOL
2007 Speedmaster and miss it!
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Who could afford a room in college, besides her parents' garage was handy. Did I mention Tonya had a twin sister..... 
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
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OH! Would that have been, "Tongya"??? And who word was, was even better at that whole "nibbling" thing! (...and btw, yeah Mac, I of course got that you misspelled the word "nimble" up there...and thus is why my reply went in the direction that it did...and which NOW of course has afforded me the opportunity to further proffer this here lousy "Tongya" pun!!!)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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For some strange reason I seem to be having these memories of the passenger side front seat of an old VW beetle I use to own 
ENJOY!!!!! NEWT!!!!!
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Well newt, I'll bet they're VERY similar to MY much more COMFORTABLE memories of the back seat of my Pop's '69 Chrysler Newport, and while at the Vermont Ave Drive-In Theater with a certain Valerie during the occasional Friday and Saturday night! (...AND speaking of "nibbling", where more than a few times I ALSO recall "honoring" the YEAR of that car's date of manufacture by use of a certain time-honored practice!!!)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Well newt, I'll bet they're VERY similar to MY much more COMFORTABLE memories of the back seat of my Pop's '69 Chrysler Newport, and while at the Vermont Ave Drive-In Theater with a certain Valerie during the occasional Friday and Saturday night!
(...AND speaking of "nibbling", where more than a few times I ALSO recall "honoring" the YEAR of that car's date of manufacture by use of a certain time-honored practice!!!)
I had some great nights in my VW rag top, but I preferred my dad's Lincoln, I think the ladies did too. I propose a toast to BIG American cars of our youth and our dads for buying them.
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
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I forgot, I watched the start of "Blue Hawaii" last night. A gal picks Elvis up in a .......new red MGA. I forgot how good looking MGAs were traveling down the highway from a distance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1ICfLo3CEY
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Well newt, I'll bet they're VERY similar to MY much more COMFORTABLE memories of the back seat of my Pop's '69 Chrysler Newport, and while at the Vermont Ave Drive-In Theater with a certain Valerie during the occasional Friday and Saturday night!
(...AND speaking of "nibbling", where more than a few times I ALSO recall "honoring" the YEAR of that car's date of manufacture by use of a certain time-honored practice!!!)
I had some great nights in my VW rag top, but I preferred my dad's Lincoln, I think the ladies did too. I propose a toast to BIG American cars of our youth and our dads for buying them.
I'll drink to that, Mac! And, you should have seen my Pop's previously purchased Yank Tank to that Chrysler...a Metallic Burgundy Red '62 Caddy Sedan deVille with white leather interior.
(...of course he sold that one a few years before Valerie and I were old enough to "christen it" on those non-school-the-following-day nights at that drive-in...though I would have NO idea on how one would "honor" the year of '62 in THAT sorta way!!!)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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I forgot, I watched the start of "Blue Hawaii" last night. A gal picks Elvis up in a .......new red MGA. I forgot how good looking MGAs were traveling down the highway from a distance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1ICfLo3CEY
And btw Mac, and in the immortal words of that guy ridin' shotgun in that MGA..."Thank you, thank you very much" for posting that movie clip!
(...yep, like I said a little earlier, the MGA was always my favorite series of that marque)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Well newt, I'll bet they're VERY similar to MY much more COMFORTABLE memories of the back seat of my Pop's '69 Chrysler Newport, and while at the Vermont Ave Drive-In Theater with a certain Valerie during the occasional Friday and Saturday night!
(...AND speaking of "nibbling", where more than a few times I ALSO recall "honoring" the YEAR of that car's date of manufacture by use of a certain time-honored practice!!!)
I had some great nights in my VW rag top, but I preferred my dad's Lincoln, I think the ladies did too. I propose a toast to BIG American cars of our youth and our dads for buying them.
Station Wagons were the ticket back in me yute...
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British sports cars are fun and beautiful but I never got around to building by favorite...because I couldn't afford a real one even with the small block 289 V8 
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If I had one of those I wouldn't have had time to date girls. I be too busy driving it.
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
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MGA... Great Looking car.
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