Looking for previous/last US owner of MG TC8204

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Hello to you all! My name is Bart Sanders and I live in the southern part of The Netherlands. Marjoleen, my wife, and I decided to start looking for a good MG TC, some months ago.  And we found one. It's TC8204 with matching XPAG 8809. It's a runner and in fair to good condition. We plan to drive with it, so it does not have to be in concours condition. By the way, it's the "home" version, no export version, RHD. When checking the numbers, the technical and other details before buying it, we discovered a USA insurance card in the door sidepocket. Our vendor bought this car some three years ago from a Dutch oldtimer specialist company called Union Jack. The original paperwork is present, the invoice of that sale, the USA Title document, import papers, etcetera. So, it was clear that this one was exported and has been used in the USA. Here is where the MG TABC website and members come in. When browsing the website I discovered that one can find out which member owns which TC. I got an immediate hit when entering TC8204! A certain Bob Mendelsohn from Cleveland, Ohio was listed as the member owning this TC. And a couple of more details are also present. The page lists the record date as June 22nd, 2012. Searching this Yahoo MG-TABC group for "Bob Mendelsohn" I got a hit for "Lynne / Bob Mendelsohn". This text is present in what seems to be the distribution list of a topic on US marines. Would this be "our" Mr. Mendelsohn? If Mr. Bob Mendelsohn is stil active on this Yahoo group, then please respond. Reason for asking: we would like to get more history information of our TC8204. May be that Mr. Mendelsohn knows some previous vendors/locations, when was this TC8204 being exported to USA? And to whom?  Questions like that. Here is TC8204 standing on our driveway after picking it up yesterdat, as an attachment. Let's see if some info pops up! Regards, Bart Sanders The Netherlands