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Tue Jun 09, 2015 10:40 pm

My MG fetish has returned! :eek:


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Wed Jun 10, 2015 12:33 pm

I think my MG fetish began when I watched this video. I always admired them but thought they might be a bit of a shonky drive, these look really good though.
Sort of like the Singer Porsches but for MG. I wonder how much they go for, not cheap surely!
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Wed Jun 10, 2015 1:28 pm

Freaks!

Fair play if they can make these sheds work though, I am slightly sceptical TBH :D
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Wed Jun 10, 2015 2:03 pm

At £75k they would need to work! :)
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Wed Jun 10, 2015 2:36 pm

Landrovers AND MGs ! So young, yet SO twisted ! :eek:
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I can just about get some 'want' for a 1500 Midget as part of a weird New Avengers/ British Leyland/ GKN XJ-S/ Range Rover 2 door/ TR7 type fantasy.. :D

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pacerpete wrote:Landrovers AND MGs ! So young, yet SO twisted ! :eek:

If only they were my only weaknesses. :cry:
rh306 wrote:I can just about get some 'want' for a 1500 Midget as part of a weird New Avengers/ British Leyland/ GKN XJ-S/ Range Rover 2 door/ TR7 type fantasy.. :D

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There is a minty mint MG midget sat beside my 190 :)

I know what you mean, any old MG has a image problem. I started looking at MGBs because they were VERY cheap. After some fag packet maths it wasn't such a good idea. Very few affordable 'off the shelf' modz. :(

Like the idea of a 2 door Range Rover but they're terrible for towing.
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bab-91 wrote:
Like the idea of a 2 door Range Rover but they're terrible for towing.
..and off-the-scale expensive now. :( Any pics of the 190 :)
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Like the idea of a 2 door Range Rover but they're terrible for towing.
..and off-the-scale expensive now. :( Any pics of the 190 :)
I've seen a few rough ones selling around the £2k mark in the ROI. They were crunchy :(

I only have the tease photos I put up a long time ago. Gold, chocolate Brown fabric interior, same colour scheme as a bag of Werthers :mad:
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bab-91 wrote:
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bab-91 wrote:
Like the idea of a 2 door Range Rover but they're terrible for towing.
..and off-the-scale expensive now. :( Any pics of the 190 :)
I've seen a few rough ones selling around the £2k mark in the ROI. They were crunchy :(

I only have the tease photos I put up a long time ago. Gold, chocolate Brown fabric interior, same colour scheme as a bag of Werthers :mad:
..pre-facelift with steels and hub caps I hope :D
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Black bumpers & hub caps :o:
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bab-91 wrote:Black bumpers & hub caps :o:
..which year's that? I'm reading up on them at the moment, I'm thinking something like this:

http://www.angliacarauctions.co.uk/en/c ... edes-190e/

..but a 2.6 could be a long term keeper :cool:
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You are a proper freak Bab.

I got the horn over a v8 MG a few months ago but the owner had register written all over him 8O
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Wed Jun 10, 2015 7:19 pm

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bab-91 wrote:Black bumpers & hub caps :o:
..which year's that? I'm reading up on them at the moment, I'm thinking something like this:

http://www.angliacarauctions.co.uk/en/c ... edes-190e/

..but a 2.6 could be a long term keeper :cool:
I'll throw pictures and details up for you when I get a chance to get up the country.
ross_jsy wrote:You are a proper freak Bab.

I got the horn over a v8 MG a few months ago but the owner had register written all over him 8O


I'm perfectly normal....

That had been my plan for a rubber bumpered MGB. Apparently an easy job to drop a V8 into said turd. I came to my senses, sort of.
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Wed Jun 10, 2015 8:05 pm

Young Robert,the search is over, your chariot awaits !

https://cars.donedeal.ie/vintagecars-fo ... ar/9630303


His other yoke is a bit tasty also, maybe he will do you a deal :)
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Is that a shagging bench where the back seats should be!?
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bab-91 wrote:Is that a shagging bench where the back seats should be!?

I am guessing that is where you would store the dead bodies for future gratifiation. I can't imagine anybody alive and in control of their bodily functions would climb into that yoke of their own accord, even in Kerry ! :)
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rh306 wrote:I can just about get some 'want' for a 1500 Midget as part of a weird New Avengers/ British Leyland/ GKN XJ-S/ Range Rover 2 door/ TR7 type fantasy.. :D

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Let me stop you right there.

Allegro/Princess/Maxi for some semi practical yet comfy and useful BL comedy value.

But a Midget of any description? No. They're like a really, really shit MX5 only much worse.

A well sorted MGB roadster is okay I suppose.
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rh306 wrote:I can just about get some 'want' for a 1500 Midget as part of a weird New Avengers/ British Leyland/ GKN XJ-S/ Range Rover 2 door/ TR7 type fantasy.. :D

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Let me stop you right there.

Allegro/Princess/Maxi for some semi practical yet comfy and useful BL comedy value.

But a Midget of any description? No. They're like a really, really shit MX5 only much worse.

A well sorted MGB roadster is okay I suppose.
...growing up with a succession of these:

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has irreversibly damaged by palate for BL's quattroporte range I think :( not sure I could even nurse a semi for one of these 8O

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Thu Jun 11, 2015 10:46 pm

An Allegro Equipe is one of the coolest turds around, in an ironic way.

What were BL thinking??
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rh306 wrote:
bab-91 wrote:Black bumpers & hub caps :o:
..which year's that? I'm reading up on them at the moment, I'm thinking something like this:

http://www.angliacarauctions.co.uk/en/c ... edes-190e/

..but a 2.6 could be a long term keeper :cool:
Finally cornered the Great Uncle about the old barge. He told me it was a 2.6... lying old fart.

Manufactured 1984, registered 1985. 72,000 miles. 2.0L Auto.

Still a cool old thing, original dealer stickers, Original Blaupunkt radio, apparently the pillows are from Merc :mad:

It's a cool but not £3ks worth. So that was a heated exchange.
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bab-91 wrote:
rh306 wrote:
bab-91 wrote:Black bumpers & hub caps :o:
..which year's that? I'm reading up on them at the moment, I'm thinking something like this:

http://www.angliacarauctions.co.uk/en/c ... edes-190e/

..but a 2.6 could be a long term keeper :cool:
Finally cornered the Great Uncle about the old barge. He told me it was a 2.6... lying old fart.

Manufactured 1984, registered 1985. 72,000 miles. 2.0L Auto.

Still a cool old thing, original dealer stickers, Original Blaupunkt radio, apparently the pillows are from Merc :mad:

It's a cool but not £3ks worth. So that was a heated exchange.
sounds like a nice old bus :cool:
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Back in the day(1972 to be a little more accurate) my daily was a blaze MG Midget,bought brand new from the BL dealer on the north circular quite close to the Ace.I was 21 and serving in the RAF....my mother's daily was a '69 MG-B,also in blaze,and my brother-in-law owned an MG-B GT,yes,his was blaze as well!

Dad's company Cortina looked a little drab on the same driveway...

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A MG fetish for 75k your having a laugh, and least it has a decent engine in it at last unlike the original pile of crap.
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daimlerman wrote:Back in the day(1972 to be a little more accurate) my daily was a blaze MG Midget,bought brand new from the BL dealer on the north circular quite close to the Ace.I was 21 and serving in the RAF....my mother's daily was a '69 MG-B,also in blaze,and my brother-in-law owned an MG-B GT,yes,his was blaze as well!

Dad's company Cortina looked a little drab on the same driveway...

:D
How in the name of god did you get in and out of it? I'm not exactly a big chap and I have to pull horrendous shapes to get in & out of one. :mad:
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bab-91 wrote:
daimlerman wrote:Back in the day(1972 to be a little more accurate) my daily was a blaze MG Midget,bought brand new from the BL dealer on the north circular quite close to the Ace.I was 21 and serving in the RAF....my mother's daily was a '69 MG-B,also in blaze,and my brother-in-law owned an MG-B GT,yes,his was blaze as well!

Dad's company Cortina looked a little drab on the same driveway...

:D
How in the name of god did you get in and out of it? I'm not exactly a big chap and I have to pull horrendous shapes to get in & out of one. :mad:
I was 21...

:D

....and the passenger seat saw a little 'action' winkeye

I still have a hankering for a B,the real issue is the live rear axle,Triumph and Alfa had already progressed to IRS,which is the big ride gain with BMW and the cabbie.
I still keep looking at MG-B resto projects and Frontline MG improvements,though!
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Sun Jun 21, 2015 8:24 pm

Bab you freak, I saw this today and thought of your perversion :D

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I also saw this

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and this poor BSA :) and Norton

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Must have been a show on somewhere as I also saw a mini van, e type and a delorian on my travels
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DanThe wrote:Bab you freak, I saw this today and thought of your perversion :D

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I also saw this

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and this poor BSA :) and Norton

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Must have been a show on somewhere as I also saw a mini van, e type and a delorian on my travels
Have you travelled on the A38 and circumnavigated Litchfield today?
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A34 to Trenthem and back Malc
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DanThe wrote:Bab you freak, I saw this today and thought of your perversion :D

:drool:

daimlerman wrote:
bab-91 wrote:
daimlerman wrote:Back in the day(1972 to be a little more accurate) my daily was a blaze MG Midget,bought brand new from the BL dealer on the north circular quite close to the Ace.I was 21 and serving in the RAF....my mother's daily was a '69 MG-B,also in blaze,and my brother-in-law owned an MG-B GT,yes,his was blaze as well!

Dad's company Cortina looked a little drab on the same driveway...

:D
How in the name of god did you get in and out of it? I'm not exactly a big chap and I have to pull horrendous shapes to get in & out of one. :mad:
I was 21...

:D

....and the passenger seat saw a little 'action' winkeye

I still have a hankering for a B,the real issue is the live rear axle,Triumph and Alfa had already progressed to IRS,which is the big ride gain with BMW and the cabbie.
I still keep looking at MG-B resto projects and Frontline MG improvements,though!
I could only get involved in 'wet work' if I took out the passenger seat. :mad:

Follow the MGB dream! 8)
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