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13 minutes ago, brownnova said:

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All of the stickers…

 

(I’m safely home… just having a spot of tea before the big reveal) 

Oooh, I need one of those! Not that I own anything with a K-Series at the moment but am bound to at some point. It cant be a Rover because of the dash design. Must be an MG of some sort

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2 hours ago, brownnova said:

According to a study, in times of crisis people with beards are perceived to be stronger leaders… 

Which is why Jeremy Corbyn won such a convincing victory in the last general election. 

I'm growing what little hair I've got on my head and having random bad hair days, where I wake up and go "CBA" . Eventually it will be put of control and the Tories will be demanding I stand for election of thier behalf, despite my psuedo socialist ideals. 

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So… why an MGTF?

Its all the fault of an Austin Allegro… 

Some of the money from sales of the Elgrand and MX5 was spoken for, but some was not. So I knew that I had a bit of money to buy something nice. Having narrowly missed out on a Saab 900 Classic for very good money I popped into a local car dealership which had this on the forecourt. 
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Having sold my MX5 I realised pretty quickly that I was missing the two seat fun, but also that I’d done with MX5s for now. This one seemed nice… 

But I wasn’t convinced I wanted one enough. So I looked at the Allegro… 

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Which was a bit crusty and had the valve seals needing doing. I called up my mate who also happens to be an MG Rover specialist so knows his way round an A series for advice. Then whilst just catching up he asked what if looked at and I mentioned the TF… he said “If you want one of those pop down to me, I’ve got a lovely one I bought off a customer who emigrated which is up for sale”

So down I popped last Friday and had a lovely catch up with him (known him years but not seen him since before covid). And he showed me another black TF. But this one was an Anniversary special edition, so had a burgundy hood and red seats, and had a few little upgrades including a sports exhaust. It was also lower mileage, and most importantly the rear subframe was in much better nick than the other one I had looked at. He had also done the head gasket himself, so I know it was done properly. 
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It was a touch more than the other one (in fact I went over budget 😬), but for a 60k special edition car which has been looked after by the specialist, I think it was worth it. 
 

Impressions… 

It drives really well, but has a couple of minor foibles: the rear screen is cloudy, the passenger side wiper doesn’t work… however, it goes like a rat up a drainpipe and will do me for a bit of weekend summer fun for sure!

It does have random stickers on it though… I’ll need to remove those. 

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As a nice extra bonus… he had this Healey which has done Mille Miliga in his unit when I went to pick it up today! 
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Yet again, I find myself wishing there was an aubergine reaction for a post on this forum, because this just gets ones productive pump pumping. Pumping hard etc.

You know, I have a rather fetching leatherish MG steering wheel that would suit that vehicle...

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Just now, brownnova said:

But has a Welsh flag on the back! 

A friend ( I bought my first 2cv from her sister) has an R reg car from new. Very low mileage as she had a company merc for years. Then it started using water and I told her what the problem would be, but she said no it’s only done 30,000miles. Guess what....

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I know this is a TF, but was the F's problem with the head gasket, compounded by no low fluid level warning, and also that the fan on early ones ran the wrong way and sucked hot air out of the engine bay, over the radiator, adding heat to the fire? 

or are they urban myths? 

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