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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
Untitled by Jim Pritchard, on FlickrPreviously, I owned this.
Untitled by Jim Pritchard, on FlickrI 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.
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.
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! 
Evening Tony, hope all's well for you...and she's looking quite lovely
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!
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!
Edited by awooga on Sunday 20th March 12:48
Edited by awooga on Sunday 20th March 17:23
Edited by awooga on Sunday 20th March 17:30
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.
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