by Ned Serleth with artwork by Howard Stacy What could be more cathartic than tinkering with our British autos? Bashing our heads against a wall? Jumping into the North Sea? Consuming vast amounts of alcohol? Naw. Working on our BMCs is good for the heart and soul, especially when the hard work is done, and…
by Russ Sharples submitted by Mitchel L. Friedman I’ve seen a lot of burned and melted wires in little British cars in my time. This is not surprising, considering that most of these cars were built with just two fuses. When a short circuit occurs in an unfused wire, the wire rapidly heats up all…
by R.L. Corn Sixty-one years ago, “Q” presented James Bond with a highly modified Aston Martin DB5 so that he could save the world from Goldfinger. The next year, the good folks at BMC released a Pininfarina-styled hardtop version of the extremely popular MGB to save the world from pricey, high-end sports cars while providing…
by Chris Adams My oldest brother was 15 years my elder and, in 1966, he purchased his first car—a low mileage 1962 MGA 1600 MkII. I was just three years old when he brought the little car home. Southern California was a great place to be a teenager with a roadster in the tumultuous ’60s….
by Mario Somoza My father, Francisco “Cuco” Somoza, was a dentist by profession and a diehard sports car enthusiast. He was a very successful rally driver in the late ’60s and ’70s, winning several of the biggest rallies on our native island of Puerto Rico and a few races across the Caribbean. Through those years,…
by David Mathias I don’t think my wife, Amber, ever rode in a British sports car before she met me, and surprisingly, twenty years later, we’re still married. We live for the months in Upper Michigan where we can drive for miles and miles on the winding roads surrounded by tall pines, lakes, rivers, and…
by Aaron Porter My family’s history with the MG T-series goes back to the mid-60s when my family lived in Singapore. My dad was a press attaché with the State Department and starting in 1960 my parents, my sister Elise, and I lived in Southeast Asia. After posts to the Philippines and Malaysia, we moved…
Stu Lasswell When asked, “What is it that you love so much about British sports cars?” I think the answer is right there in the name: SPORTS car! Sport, by definition, usually means some form of competition. For automobiles, that means racing! And when it comes to the cars we all own, know, and love,…
by David Mathias It’s mid-November and I live in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. This morning I showed a friend a picture that was taken yesterday of me driving my 1952 MGTD down a country road in the snow. I was simply test driving it, but he asked if it was going to be my winter car….
by Nick Ginsberg Dedicated to my grandmother, Susan Babbitz (1944–2020) and my grandfather, Stephen Babbitz (1943–2024) September 14, 1976, two days after my grandma’s birthday, an ivory 1952 MGTD became part of our family. We still have the bill of sale—my grandpa paid $1,000 for it. Growing up, I’d heard stories from my mom and…
