Re: [mg-tabc] Listers ages

[PMS GB Ltd]

Message text written by INTERNET:MDandGI@webtv.net

>CLIVE...Who wants to look at stamps on a cold winter weekend when you

can get under your TC on the cement floor and play with all the greasy
parts, not to mention all the friends who drop by to drink your beer and
give advise!<


Geoff,

Ah yes - you are so right! I've never been into collecting stamps - at
least
with a car you drive it as it was meant to be used -

I gather the idea of sticking a rare stamp onto an envelope and posting it
is not considered good form in stamp collecting circles!

Clive

[MDandGI@webtv.net]

Just kidding Chip!

(Wow that was close he is younger than me!)

Regards Geoff

[Bob McClaren]

Hi to all,

I bought my first MG, a '52 TD in 1968. Our son John got his first ride in
the TD. He rode home from the hospital in December '68 in Connecticut
during a snow storm. The nurse who carried him from the maternity ward took
one look at the car and the snow and started back into the hospital. We all
eventually made it home. Then a RHD '51 TD came my way in about 1972. This
was a really great car (now back in UK)but I always wanted a TC and bought
1947 TC, No. 3443 in 1994. Have owned numerous fine MGBs/B-GTs, an MGC, and
a MGC-GT. Currently own a '66 MK2 Jaguar (project car) and a '67 MGB
(undergoing restoration to be my daily driver) but the TC is still my
favorite. The TC is 11 months younger than I am. She'll be 53 this August
and I'll be 54 in September. My son, John, is 31 now and he owns the C-GT
mentioned earlier. My lovely wife Pam has a 74-1/2 MGB as her daily driver.

Bob McClaren
Virginia Beach, VA

[David Edgar]

Peter and Rachel-
I checked my TC Motoring Guild roster and you are not listed. You gotta
pay the dues each year. E-mail our membership chair, Ron Simon at
rsimon@psparts.com to get back in if you so desire.

On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Peter & Rachel Ross wrote:
>
> ps. Someone mentioned the TC Motoring Guild. I sent 8892's details to
> California back in '62. I wonder if I am still on the list?

[A.F. Garner]

My first contact with a T series was when I was in the RAF in 1942 and Ts
were standard issue to aircrew. I didn't own one but we all shared one
when we wanted to impress the local girls. My next contact was on my
stag night when a friend ferried me around in a red one. Since then I
have dallied with more modern MGs but it was about five years ago when
the pennies and the right car were available together and I bought GTC
990 - a 1946 TC, originally with the Lancashire Police. It still
impresses the local girls! Incidentally that all makes me 75 next
birthday.

Happy MotorinG,

[Bob McKarney]

Nostalgia and early yearnings seem to be a major theme from most of you
as reason to purchase a TC. I was raised in West Virginia, and the
closest thing to an MGTC was a King Midget (remember those?) owned by
one of the "rich kids" in town. I therefore yearned only for a Model A
Ford roadster for sale down the road for $50 which was more money than I
had ever seen at one time. I didn't get up close and personal with any
MG until my mid 30's, which began a long, though interrupted love affair
with the breed.

1966-(age 35) - bought '51 MG-TD for $750 just to have something fun to
drive (smart)
1968-(age 37) - sold TD for $700 sans clutch (dumb)
1971-(age 40) - bought 360 Yamaha to ride Malibu mountains (dumb)
1972-(age 41) - lost argument with CHP about wisdom of riding fire
trails in Malibu mountains (dumb and expensive)
1973-(age 42) - lost short but intensive argument with Yamaha (very
dumb)
1974-(age 43) - upon release by the hospital, sold Yamaha (smart)
1975-(age 44) - realized 4 wheels instead of 2 was marginally safer, and
bought TC (smart)
1975-(age 44) - drove TC from LA to Yosemite and back with broken spring
and no shock links (dumb)
1976-(age 45) - gave it a "street restoration" and drove it daily as a
"company car" (marginally dumb, but fun)
1884-(age 53) - bought a '67 MGB to keep the TC company, and to drive
when she didn't want to.

I am now 68 (4 wheels helped, apparently, at least so far), retired
(smart), still have both the TC and the B (very smart) and live in the
same Cambria as Bill Hoak touring and just driving around town daily in
one or the other (very very smart..and fun).
The amazingly wonderful thing about owning the TC all these years is the
fantastic people I have met, and the life-long friends I have made. The
TC Motoring Guild, the Abington Rough Riders, the T-ABC's group (many
of which are the same) have turned a dumb motorcycle accident into a
lifetime of laughs and joy. Thank you TC and thank you all. (And
Badger, please keep us laughing a bit - TC's steer much better when
you're laughing, I've found.)
Bob McKarney

[Art FitzGerald]

Am 59 and the TA is 3 years older than I. Have had it since 1971 (basket
case -- pics on the web site), have never driven it and, sigh!, hope to
yet have it on the road this year.

Art