To: John D Borrows <jborrows@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: MG-TDs
ENCOURAGEMENT!TD!ENCOURAGEMENT!TD!ENCOURAGEMENT!TD!ENCOURAGEMENT!TD!
Your TD went into its garage about the same time that I finally sold mine
after an eight year love affair. Mine disappeared into a lot of boxes and
the body work slowl
y rusted away leaning up against the outside of a garage. The dreaded new
owner didn't give
her a good home! It was too much to bear.
Today people think of the T series MG's as frail anti
ques. Don't. They were a car made for hard driving. Not over-revving, you
understand, but corn
ered hard on winding back roads at night. That car was very user friendly on
drivers. I can't tell you how often the TD and I had a conversation that
went like this:
ME: OOPS! I got us into this, can you get us out?
TD: OK
And it did.
And the memories. The Riverside Drive in NYC midwinter with the top down on
the way home from night school at Columbia. Drive-in movies in the rain with
the top and side curtains up and the windshield down. Leaving it parked
overnight on the Quebec City ramparts durin
g a blizzard. Have you any idea how much snow you can get through the
louvers and into the SU'
s and around the highly waterproof (ha!) Lucas distributor?
Get'em running and use them. Well, save one for posterity and run the living
daylights out of the other.
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