[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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