[Mgs] Vintage MGBGT sighting

David Woerpel dtwoerpel at gmail.com
Wed Feb 28 15:00:14 MST 2024


Must add: L.J.K. Setright and Motor Magazine's, William Boddy. Dang, I'm 
old.   That new guy Levy isn't too bad.  ;-)
Dave W
'59 MGA 1500
'59 :{)
"Pay It Forward"


On 2/28/2024 2:22 PM, Dan DiBiase wrote:
> 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:
>
>
>
>     > 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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