[Mgs] Vintage MGBGT sighting

[Dan DiBiase]

And let's not forget Henry N Manney III....

Dan D

On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 2:58 PM Larry Colen <lrc at red4est.com> wrote:

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> > On Feb 28, 2024, at 9:05 AM, David Breneman <david_breneman at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Wednesday, February 28, 2024 at 04:45:47 AM PST, Dan DiBiase <
> dan.dibiase at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Man, I remember this. I was a CD subscriber for decades, starting
> around this
> > > time. Still have hundreds of them (and Road and Track, Hot Rod, etc).
> This was
> > > really great automotive writing and adventure. The magazines are a
> shadow of
> > > themselves these days.
> >
> > Yeah, I began subscribing to C/D in high school, so almost 50 years
> ago.  It stood
> > out from the pack because of its excellent writing and irreverent
> attitude.  I still
> > get it, but I don't think I've cracked the cover of one in over a year.
> It just isn't
> > compelling anymore.  A lot of the best writers got pulled away into
> David Davis'
> > Automobile Magazine, which later folded, and left C/D bereft.
>
> Yeah C/D was the most fun of the lot.  I thought that R/T had the best
> technical stuff, and but I loved Peter Egan's column.  His story of driving
> a Frogeye from Wisconsin(?) back to Southern California was a classic.  I
> loved the line "65 MPH is 4000 RPM, All. Day. Long."  I also loved reading
> Satch Carlson and Denise McCluggage in Autoweek.  It turned out that my dad
> peripherally knw McCluggage when he raced MGs in the Northeast back in the
> 50's.
>
>
> --
> Larry Colen
> lrc at red4est.com  sent from ret13est
>
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