[Nobbc] MG car show!

Sat Oct 1 01:02:35 MDT 2011

 I am the owner of the MG 1100.  It was a great show!  Thanks for posting the
photos. Here is a link to some more photos:  www.LittleBritishCar.org

--- On Fri, 9/30/11, Don <don at napanet.net> wrote:

From: Don <don at napanet.net>
Subject: [Nobbc] MG car show!
To: nobbc at autox.team.net
Date: Friday, September 30, 2011, 9:07 PM

I visited the MG Fall Festival at the Sheraton Hotel in Petaluma today.  As
usual, I was driving a Japanese vehicle; this time my Mazda pickup as I had
errands to run to get building supplies to prepare for the rainstorms coming
next week.  If everyone drove a Japanese car to these events they would not
quite work.

Anyway, there were some beautiful cars there.  My favourite was the red 1962
MGA Mk 2 roadster that belongs to Chrisula Asimos.  She bought the car new! 
What a vibrant and lively woman she is.  I can't imagine what she must have
been like back in '62 when she bought that car.  The MGA is pretty much
original other than a repaint years ago.  She said the worst mechanical issue
was a blown headgasket on the Bay Bridge years ago which led to her having the
engine partially rebuilt.  The original grey top and sidecurtains with grey
vinyl still are on the car.  The seats, though worn, are also original.  The
photo I took of the interior did not come out very well.  The one of the car's
engine bay shows the patina of the nearly 50 years of its life.  Chrisula was
kind enough to pose in front of her MGA for the photo of the exterior of her
car.  She was also kind enough to laugh at my joke- an MG gal was walking
briskly among the cars announcing
 that a pair of bifocals had been found and she was seeking their owner.  I
commented to Chrisula that the bifocals could belong to anyone at the car
show.

Andy Preston had two of his four MGs at the show.  His red MGA coupe is
gorgeous and is a real work of art as he did most all the work himself on the
car.  His cars are so impressive, and his enthusiasm for MGs has inspired me
at times when I think of other hobbies to pursue.  Great guy he is.

There were more TFs than TDs, which defies logic considering how few TFs were
made, and how few remain.  There was a cream coloured one which I photographed
that was stunning.  The owner had just had the car restored, and the detailing
was phenomenal.  Even the lining of the little tool box in front of the
firewall was there, and intact.  It had a valve cover that I had not seen
before with a complex filler on the rear.  I learned that it was a TC item
which was sought by later T-series owners as it was such an art piece.  The
owner started up the engine and told me it had been rebuilt and balanced.  It
sure ran well.  I must say, this car gave me an inferiority complex as I own a
similar car with the same colour scheme.  Until I saw this TF, I thought mine
was as nice as they got.

I saw Jim Legg of Napa, who had sold me an MGB radio years ago.  He drove his
MGB that tows a trailer made of a severed MGB's hindquarters.  Jim is very
dedicated to his MGs, and has two MGBs.

One of the more  unusual MGs at the show was a "tubbed" MGA roadster powered
by a massive chromed and blown V8.  I noticed that the car's grille was from a
'62 Mk 2 and the taillights from a 1600.  No originality/concours prize for
him!

The other odd MG was a GT that had been converted to a roadster-pickup truck. 
The owner had done a lot of beautiful woodwork to it, and I was impressed how
pretty the car looked.  The owner's wife told me that her husband had started
with a parts car that ran so well he couldn't just discard it, so made it into
a custom.  She placed their little pet dog in its special doggy seat for me to
include in my photograph of the car.

There was a dearth of  MG sedans.  Only one I saw was an MG 1100.  It was very
well preserved, and wore it's original tartan red paint.  I always thought
only MGBs were tartan red.  This has got to be one of a handful of 1100s left
in the world.

My photos:

https://picasaweb.google.com/104973305347633073496/September302011?authkey=Gv
1sRgCIGxsaijrPb8XA

Website for the show:

http://mgfallfestival.com/i
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