"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
01/01/2020 at 15:19 • Filed to: MG, TD
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"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
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New year, not so new MG. New paint though.
lone_liberal
> Cé hé sin
01/01/2020 at 15:37 |
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I don’t know enough about MGs to know if that’s a TC or TD, or some other version, but I know once upon a time they were so popular that they made kit cars of them. It’s weird that they’ve disappeared so thoroughly.
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> lone_liberal
01/01/2020 at 15:41 |
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I think it’s a TD and there are still a fair number around (for a car that’s getting o
n for seventy years old and was never mad
e
in large numbers
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lone_liberal
> Cé hé sin
01/01/2020 at 15:45 |
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I meant they seem to have disappeared from the greater car culture not that they don’t exist. I rarely see anything written about them these days when once they were routinely cited as a prime example of a pure sports car.
fintail
> Cé hé sin
01/01/2020 at 15:46 |
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Yep, TD. A huge amount were exported, I’d wager there are more in the US than in the UK. They have a cult, so survival rates are high.
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> lone_liberal
01/01/2020 at 15:48 |
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Age, I suspect. People tend to collect the cars they remember from their youth and those who remember the TD are generally no longer with us.
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> fintail
01/01/2020 at 15:52 |
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Yes, there probably are. In a similar vein, something like 90% of TR6s went to America. There are still about 4,000 in the UK which is a high proportion of the number originally sold there, although as many have been re imported from the less rusty areas of the US that number is not necessarily a high proportion of those actuall
y sold there.
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fintail
> Cé hé sin
01/01/2020 at 15:59 |
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I can believe it. I know the US import thing is big with some cars there, like Karmann Ghia. Other cars like maybe Porsche 356 and MB 190SL saw significant sales to the US, probably more than any other single country., and many future US exports. Customers of sports cars were often in dry climates, which helped survival.
When I was a kid (say late 1980s) in a town of maybe 12K people , there were a few TDs around - I doubt many if any really ever hit a scrapyard, they were kind of “special” from new.