Show us your MG

Show us your MG

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Trevatanus

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11,207 posts

156 months

Tuesday 2nd February 2016
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I'll start. A Tf135, Monogram Edition, owned since October 2014. Number 20 of 99 built in this colour.

Untitled by Jim Pritchard, on Flickr

Previously, I owned this.

Untitled by Jim Pritchard, on Flickr

TR4man

5,312 posts

180 months

Tuesday 2nd February 2016
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I used to own a MGF VVC in the late 1990s and for the money it was a great little car.

Despite the jokes from my friends, it ran faultlessly for 40,000 odd miles with nothing more than routine maintainance.

It looks a bit tall in these photos, but it had just had the hydroglas suspension pumped up.




Rob Dicky

207 posts

229 months

Tuesday 2nd February 2016
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My 1968 BGT at Ribbleshead viaduct

steve51800

125 posts

105 months

Wednesday 3rd February 2016
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Trophy 160 in Richmond, North Yorkshire. Everyday car, drove it to Prague via Vienna last year.

Trevatanus

Original Poster:

11,207 posts

156 months

Wednesday 3rd February 2016
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steve51800 said:


Trophy 160 in Richmond, North Yorkshire. Everyday car, drove it to Prague via Vienna last year.
Nice! I do love a Trophy!

mgtony

4,058 posts

196 months

Wednesday 3rd February 2016
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Not An LE but a 78 in a colour painted by the previous owner.

v8250

2,729 posts

217 months

Wednesday 3rd February 2016
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mgtony said:
Not An LE but a 78 in a colour painted by the previous owner.
Wow, the world's first MGBGT entered into the "Countryside Field Grass Cutting Competition"...with the size of that chin spoiler it's no surprise you secured Gold for Abingdon! rofl

Evening Tony, hope all's well for you...and she's looking quite lovely wink

interloper

2,747 posts

261 months

Wednesday 3rd February 2016
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My previous BGT, I had this as my daily and only car in about 98/99. Sadly I think this was possibly scrapped some time after I sold it.



Fast forward to spring 2015 and I picked this up....







There is a fair bit of work to do, to say the least!

V8 TVR

319 posts

195 months

Thursday 11th February 2016
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v8250

2,729 posts

217 months

Thursday 11th February 2016
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V8 TVR, if they're all yours you must have the world's biggest private collection of ZT's

visfix

68 posts

139 months

Wednesday 16th March 2016
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Mine......


chormy

635 posts

202 months

Wednesday 16th March 2016
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Db1904

300 posts

139 months

Wednesday 16th March 2016
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My MGB GT on pentire head, Newquay, Cornwall. Had it a few years now and it's quite different from the state I bought it in!


chappj

337 posts

149 months

Saturday 19th March 2016
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My '70 BGT inherited from my late grand father last year. He owned it from new and it was apparently the car on the MG stand at the London Motor Show where they bought it from.


awooga

401 posts

140 months

Sunday 20th March 2016
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My dad bought this car around 1986 and kept it until his death in 2009. My mother then kept it for a year before deciding that the best person to keep it would be me (my sister had dibs on it, but is notorious for not looking after things, has 2 young children who would definitely damage it and a brother in law not popular with my mum. I had a yellow Alfa Spider, so didn't really need another 2 seat yellow convertible but hey ho.



The car was atrocious to drive when I got it. Standard 1978 suspension. CEAT or Semperit tyres that had a lot of years on them, if not miles. Very uncomfortable seats. However, it was fully resored in 2002 with a new bodyshell so the good bits were good and the bad bits were easy and relatively cheap to sort.

I've since converted the rear to spax and parabolic springs, the front is a Moss coilover (not in this picture) conversion on Gaz shocks with a Moss castor correction kit for the steering and a 3/4" anti roll bar, the seats are Moss, the engine is now running a 1-2-3 programmed dizzy, a peter burgess head with a piper 270 cam, a pico manifold onto a MGOC club sport exhaust. Carbs are still HIF4s, but they're new and have hot needles in them. Peter Burgess tuned the car up when I took the car down to Derby last summer to have the head put on it. Puts out 122bhp at the flywheel, 107bhp at the wheels. Brakes are currently standard but with greenstuff pads - I find these lack bite and am about to change to mintex 1144 which I liked on the Alfa. The wheels were my dad's choice - all I did was put yokohama tyres on there. They're about to change because the Moss coilover kit makes it look as though it rides too high, so I'm about to change them for 15" minilite replicas and go up a tyre size to keep the speedo right. This should also allow a little extra grip, as the increase in power is too much for the tyres too often.

ETA - thumbsnap links don't appear to be working, but I'm trying to do this over a V sat link at sea and there's just not enough bandwidth I think to handle it. Will upload properly when I'm home in 3 weeks. It is worth it, honest!

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5ohmustang

2,755 posts

121 months

Sunday 20th March 2016
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steve51800 said:


Trophy 160 in Richmond, North Yorkshire. Everyday car, drove it to Prague via Vienna last year.
Did these have the hydragas suspension?

Flying Phil

1,658 posts

151 months

Monday 21st March 2016
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chormy said:
Very Nice!

Trophy200

231 posts

207 months

Monday 21st March 2016
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5ohmustang said:
Did these have the hydragas suspension?
Yes. All MGF's had Hydragas spheres and the MG TF moved to springs.

Trophy200

steve51800

125 posts

105 months

Tuesday 22nd March 2016
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Yes, sorry haven't been on here for a few days. Trophys had hydra gas, but valved differently to standard mgf to give a more focused ride and handling set up. If they fail, and mine did, replacements are practically impossible to find at affordable prices. I ended up installing a suplex spring kit but will probably end up fitting tf subframes in the future.

chris watton

22,478 posts

266 months

Saturday 26th March 2016
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Wife's MGF Trophy 160, had it for almost 11 years now, and have spent thousands on it!