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MG MGA
Description: 2 seater open top sports Newest Review: ... training college in Matlock, with (mostly) delightful young ladies and all (well most) quite impressionable !! Oh happy days ... more  ... (and they really were !). Anyway it's cars that I supposed to be talking about - and not 'lifestyles'. Now a few points about the car. It had 74,000 miles recorded and the engine was not the 1588 cc engine from the factory, but a 'gold seal' reconditioned 1622cc engine (said to be only 12,000 miles' old) to which the original cylinder head and carburettors/exhaust manifold had been fitted. This was roughly the set-up of the 'Mark 2' models (with the horizontal rear light clus...moreMore Austin/MG card
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Format: Paperback, Publisher: Brooklands Books(01-Sep-1996), ISBN
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Format: paperback, Publisher: Brooklands Books Ltd, ISBN: 1855201
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Format: Paperback, ISBN: 9781855200784
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Format: paperback, Publisher: Brooklands Books Ltd, ISBN: 1869826
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Format: Paperback, ISBN: 9781855208179
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MG MGA: MGA - A REAL Classic (1563 words)
by sidneygee - written on 04.02.01 (Very useful, 1399 readings)
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I have been driving since 1964 and in that time I have owned a number of cars which would now be called (and sold to the gullible) as 'classics' . I will not list them here but, shall we say, the large majority of them were "classic pains in the ****" (and other parts of the human anatomy). However, the MGA that I owned for over two years from December 1967 (568 RHY) when I lived in Matlock in Derbyshire, did not fall into that category. I travelled over 25,000 miles in this vehicle, with a few minor problems (see below), but I always enjoyed it and I immediately regretted selling it (albeit at a good profit). It was a 1959 Mark 1A ...
