-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Collins [mailto:
Bruce@idesign.com.au]
Sent: Friday, 28 April 2000 16:32
To: Terry O'Brien; MG List
Subject: RE: [mg-tabc] Listers Ages
gentlemen.
there is a wise saying:-
you can never have too many british sports cars.
regards the other bruce collins in australia 47 TC,59 bugeye,69 mgb, 95
mgrv8. and my oldest car is younger than I but not by much.
-----Original Message-----
From: Terry O'Brien [mailto:
hamptons1@home.com]
Sent: Friday, 28 April 2000 15:45
To: MG List
Subject: [mg-tabc] Listers Ages
This is the first time in my experience that the list has come close as
a topic to dealing with the the background of the members and their
personal involvement with MGs . I think it quite revealing. Firstly it
originates from half way around the world. Verifies the need for new
blood. Perhaps India is the only place where someone, at 27, can afford
to buy a basket case and find a craftsman to make the missing parts at
prices that can be paid. Perhaps we should look to India as a future
resource for spares.
For the rest of us we sort of fit the same mold, although I have a
slightly different spin. When I was a teenager, and a bit more, I
desperately wanted a TC. My father, who had to bankroll it, was not
enthusiastic. He thought the TC impracticable, only 1 passenger, no
luggage etc. ,etc. and I should have a Chev or the like. Then a one
owner YT came up and it had a back seat, a bit of a boot.The price was
no more than a poor example of a Chev. and he relented. I still have the
YT, it is now pushing 51 years, and I 66. I have had it since 1956 and
it is in about the same condition as new and much better than when I
first had it. Now I intend to finally fulfil my original goal and get a
TC; hopefully, for a couple of reasons, not that significant, one that
was sold locally .
As a temporary interloper on this site( that is until I find a TC) I
have to say that it is the best, most active and informative of any site
I have yet seen. For me the MG experience over more than 40 years (on
and off) has been about having good friendships, and the opportunity to
play with a Mecchano Set #1000 i.e. fun. I think even Badger might agree
with that.
Terry O'Brien