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Confessions of A Teenage MG Driver

by Charles Cutler I grip the large metal-spoked steering wheel of my 1975 MGB, zipping between humdrum hybrids and stale SUVs, my red British roadster releasing the smell of carbureted happiness in its wake. I’m an average 19-year-old guy, but I’ve been photographed, waved at, and propositioned—all because of this classic British car. It is…

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Maiden Voyage

by Ned Serleth I inspected my machine from grille to tailpipe. This was going to be my car’s first ever road adventure since its completion. All fluids met approval; the radiator, oil pan, and master cylinder passed inspection. My insurance agent had picked my pocket once again, and a new license plate adorned the rear….

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Taking the Lead: Lifetime Love Affair

by Kathy Cook Al and I fell in love just after high school. But I was not Al’s first love. He had already fallen in love with MGs. In 1972, during our senior year in college, Al picked up a disassembled MGTD. He and I both went to law school and during the summers Al…

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Sharing Your British Car With The World

by Glen & Jill MooreWe purchased another British car. Yes, we already had a collection of MGs in the garage. Is this a disease or just an obsession? Took all the paperwork to the county tax collector’s office to pay the sales taxes, get the car an updated title, and obtain a license plate. In…

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Future Barn Finds

by Jake Voelckers Fall started a few weeks early in 2023. That’s when my brothers, Adam and Evan, and I started discussing our second annual trip home to New York. Last year was the first time we met up there in the fall, just us, at our childhood home. We planned to gather parts we…

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Going Topless

by David Mathias Over the decades I have owned literally dozens of British and German sports cars. I can’t say this without likening myself to a character in Aesop’s Fables about the grasshopper and the ant. The ant is wise. He works hard, saves his money and is both thrifty, conservative and probably drives a…

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Mechanical Musings

By Paul Austin When an exhaust valve got stuck open, I pulled the cylinder head and was stunned by how heavy it was. Of course, I shouldn’t have been surprised: it’s made out of cast iron. But still, hefting it up and away from the engine without dropping it and dinging my front fender, it…

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Kids and Cars

by Jake Volkers Part of being a good dad is finding ways to connect with your kids.When I was a teenager, I started getting interested in cars. In particular, the cars at my dad’s shop. In the mid-1970s, he started and single-handedly ran a business that was strictly about British cars. He found ways to…

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Fit and Finish

By Ned Serleth Fit and finish. Fit and finish. Over the past winter months those two words kept rattling around in my head like marbles in a fruit jar since the MGA had gotten itself a fresh coat of Tuxedo Black paint. “Pshaw, to concours standards,” I thought as I stood in the cold garage…

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Time Shifting

By Cal Sikstrom I was in an experimental mood coming out of Biosciences near midnight. I had been in my zoology lab observing the gonopodial thrusting of male green swordtails. I locked the lab door and left the building holding the thumbnail sized key to my newly painted ’61 MGA. I was really tired but…

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