On Mon, 4 Nov 1996, David Laver wrote:
> > The question really belongs on the Prewarrior list where most of the TC
> > reside. It never ceases to amaze me how many of the 3003 TA's survive or
> > else the few that did are forever being put on sale!
>
> Are they the sort of car where you get a 300% survival rate ? I'm sure
> there are more Frazer Nashes now than ever previously. There are
> certainly more ERAs and Maser 250s. Austin 7 Ulsters, sporting
> Bentleys, convertable Morris Minors, the list goes on....
Those are relatively rare low-production cars that were derived from other
more plentiful production models and can therefore be reproduced fairly
accurately by starting with the base model, a lot of money, and a
disregard for originality.
That isn't true of the T-Type MGs. By the time of the T-Types, it had been
many years since MGs were modified versions of production line Morris
cars. There isn't any other car you can "convert" into a T-Type, so the
only way to build one that didn't actually roll off the Abingdon
production line is to start from scratch. You can buy a whole parking lot
full of real ones for the money it would take to do that.
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Chip Old 1948 M.G. TC TC6710 NEMGTR #2271
Cub Hill, Maryland 1962 Triumph TR4 CT3154LO (daily driver)
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