A client of mine was so happy that I spent some time getting him up and
running successfully with our service that he gave me a nice present.
We had somehow started talking cars when we waited for his computer to
complete various tasks. It turned out that he had owned a few sports
cars in his time - and indeed had a nice stable at the time, so he gave
me a wonderful little coffee-table book called "Sports Car Classics - A
marque-by-marque guide to over 35 dream cars", in case any of you have
it.
It is a pretty book about pretty cars and certainly gives MG its due
(with a rave about the MGF), but I thought some of you might be amused,
infuriated or intrigued by one quote, used as a caption under a picture
of a very nice little TF.
"MG originally signified one more carburettor than normal and a sports
body. The MGTF (1953), the last of the old MG Midgets, carried on the
tradition: pretty, amusing but very slow. One American journalist
described it as a 'dead cat slightly warmed over'".
Hmmmmm
Eric
'68MGB MkII
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