Guest 663- Registered: 20 Mar 2008
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Gosh you wouldnt want to be travelling to far in it,but it looks like fun though would love to try that out.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Yes you are right Jan..spot on...its not built for long distances. Do you see the trailer next to it..?
thats what it arrived on..and thats what it was towed off on this morning...the couple stayed in the hotel. The whole kit and caboodle was towed by a Land Rover.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Another shot of this Special ( see over ) but without people in it...you can see the full lines of it..
also powering through yesterday a whole gaggle of MGs..at first glance they might all look the same but there are slight differences. Now a defunct vehicle I gather...therefore collectible.
Loud candy colours stick out for sure. But...another British institution bites/has bitten the dust.
Guest 764- Registered: 27 Jul 2012
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Yeah, the new breed of MG badged cars will be owned by the cunning Chinese...
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Yes indeed the Chinese have bought the marque, but so far have done nothing with it despite owning it now for several years. Perhaps the golden era is over and they recognise that. MG conjures up images of Englishness which would be lost somehow if it had 'Made in Beijing' stuck on it.
I dont really know if they have any further plans or if something new is actually coming out.
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Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Well I never..well there you are. Not a car buff myself and it shows...lol!!
But those cars are not the same...not in the spirit or tradition of the grand old days of British motoring. Cloth caps and tweeds and a picnic basket on the rear....
Guest 764- Registered: 27 Jul 2012
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No, not at all. But they're already in very small showrooms here, and before long they'll be chasing our mainstream manufacturers
if they can get the quality right !
Guest 663- Registered: 20 Mar 2008
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The above pictures bring back good memories, having not long sold mine which was MG number four the lovely blue colour you can see in the picture, the first being British Racing Green and then two were Black.
It was a must have when Rover bought them back into production first in the old shape then they upgraded with the new shape, now I have gone French with the peugeot equally as good and I love it but will always have fond memories of my MG's
Brian Dixon
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good call jan,very reliable ad you can get spare parts for it as well.
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These 'Hot Cars' shattered the peace down here on the seafront this morning but the sound was fantastic...growl growl roar....and when they accelerated they were earthshatteringlysuperduper..a sweet noise, enough to wake the dead!!
The pictures were taken soon after 6 am so it was quite dark..have had to force the pictures to get some image at all so the light looks funny in some cases. Photographing black cars in the dark is not ideal..here we go
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I thought the wheels needed to be 'guarded' to be street-legal?
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Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Well an interesting point Tom...never thought of it. I dont know myself but these things came tearing up the main road and werent keeping quiet about it. Maybe Peter G will know if he's about at the moment.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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must be a vintage car rally on somewhere in northern france.
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Another pic but not of good quality..there were 2 cars as you can see with naked wheels..top left and right
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These two, of all the old/special/kit cars we have seen are the only ones with unguarded wheels. The US style.
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Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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They're not UK number plates so presumably they were driving back home where the rules are different - on exhausts as well as wheel guards!
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At least the black one has solar-panels on it's roof.
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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i yhink you find that most of them are dutch plated cars,
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Delft. Do you mean Brian?
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