Hello Allen,
According to Mr. Clausager, Abingdon made 101,081 of the streamliners. There
were 81,401 left-hand drive North American spec cars built. Interestingly,
there was one (1) MGA1600 De Luxe coupe built for the North American market
making it the rarest bird in the MGA coop.
NAMGAR has registered about 5,740 of the things not counting known parts
cars. There must be a number of unregistered cars running around plus the
basket cases like you mentioned. My family is harboring three 1600s plus a
1500 parts hulk.
There are probably healthy populations of Australian, South African,
Japanese, Western European, and, of course, British Isles cars. I wonder if
our other correspondents know how many these number?
Probably most of them have long since been scrapped. For that reason let's
enjoy the ones we have now.
Regards,
David F. Darby
Interior Highlands, Missouri USA
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From: Ajhsys@aol.com <Ajhsys@aol.com>
To: mgs@autox.team.net <mgs@autox.team.net>
Date: Wednesday, 14 April, 1999 7:52 AM
Subject: Back on the list
>I've been spending a lot of time over on the Spridgets list lately, and
>thought I should get back on MGs, ...
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>MGA in boxes in his garage. He has had the thing for 11 years.
snip...
>That got me thinking. (Look out!) I wonder just how many more >LBCs are
>laying around like this.
>Anyone know how many MGAs were made, how many were exported to the USA, and
>how many are still running (or close to running!) here? I'm just >curious
>about the percentage. It might be interesting to see if LBCs are still
>running in a larger percentage than other popular sports cars of a >bygone
>era. (Yugo?)
>
>Pardon me if I wax rhapsodic from time to time.
>
>Allen Hefner
>'77 Midget
>'92 Mitsubishi Expo LRV Sport
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