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Re: Full text of WhatCar? MG 25 46 75 Article

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Subject: Re: Full text of WhatCar? MG 25 46 75 Article
From: MGMagnette@aol.com
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 16:09:31 EDT
Just in case it wasn't obvious enough nothing in the original post was written 
in my own hand... 100% cut and pasted off the WhatCar? website.  Someone worded 
a reply and it seemed that they thought I wrote it.

Anyway, I'd rather like a little MG coupe/hard top like the Rover 25 to scoot 
around town in without the wind blowing through it like my MGB-GT  (Admittedly, 
not all MGB-GTs were equiped with 1/2" gaps between the window seals and the 
door glass, but all are a little breezy).  Ofcourse in America we won't be 
seeing anything like that soon.  Luky Brits, you get the cool shit.  

I am one of those people who would like to drive thier MG every damn day of the 
year, and if it takes three MGs to do that, I'm cool with that.  I have seen a 
million MGFs here at Cambridge U, and I have to say they have every drawback an 
MGB does in terms of practicality.  Not that these drawbacks have kept an MGB 
convertible out of my garage, because I have one, and I'd overlook them again 
if I ever had the chance to buy an MGF.  But I can't drive my MGB every day 
every where, and I'm so sure of an MGF.  Its RWD, which sucks in the snow, and 
it seats two.  SO, I need an MG sedan.  A MG 25 would be really cool I have to 
say.  They are dead handsome cars and would only be about $15,000 (they cost 
under £10,000 in the UK).  I thought about supplementing my MG Magnette Mk. III 
with an old XJ6 or an XJ12 (my XJ-S is wonderful but seats only 2) so that I 
could haul people around at higher speeds, but I have to say I'd give up the 
snobby Jag for an MG sedan any day.  Then people would stop asking me if I was 
borrowing Daddy's car, even though the Jag is a dirt cheap car ($5000=NICE 
XJ-S!)  A dream would be to have matching Magnettes... my Mk. III and a Rover 
75/MG Magnette would be TOO cool.  But those aren't as cheap.

Anyway, if you've made it this far in my post I'd bet you are either: retired, 
divorced, or in some other way have too much time on your hands so go get 
yourself a nice new project car and work on it or go work on that one you 
probably already got.

-John  ("Stuck" at Cambridge U without my MGs to work on!)
1972 MGB
1973 MGB-GT
1959 MG Magnette Mk. III  (www.mgmagnette.com
1986 Jaguar XJ-S

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