[Spridgets] Best Spridget for a condo owner

[Jim Johnson]

Ummm   Allen...   The MG line goes back well before the T-series...  The
first "Midget" was the M-type in 1929....

http://www.mgabingdon.co.uk/timeline/index.html

That said, the TC was the first MG imported into the US post WWII....

Cheers!!
Jim

On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Guy R Day <grday at btinternet.com> wrote:

> Allen,
> You may well be quite right.
> There is no hot air at this end.
>
> Regards,
>
> Guy R Day
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Allen Hefner" <lbc77mg at gmail.com>
> To: "Spridgets list" <spridgets at autox.team.net>
> Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2011 3:18 PM
>
> Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Best Spridget for a condo owner
>
>
>  Haysoos marimba, kool yer jets!  I only asked about the best car for me,
>> living in a condo with no garage or place to work on a car.
>>
>> I don't think anybody seriously believes the Miata or the Jeep are Brit
>> Cars.  They both have tenuous connections to the wonderful heritage Great
>> Britain brought to sports car history, but NO newcomer will ever be more
>> important or more loved than the early MG T-series that started it all.
>> The
>> Spridget is a DIRECT descendent of the MG-TC.
>>
>> The Miata and Jeep are "world cars."
>>
>> End of line
>>
>> Allen Hefner
>> Norristown, PA
>>
>> *Current:*
>> 2006 Chebbie
>> *Former:*
>> 1963 Sunbeam Alpine Series III
>> 1967 Triumph TR4A IRS
>> 1964 VW Type I
>> 1967 VW Type II
>> 1967 Rover 2000TC
>> 1977 MG Midget
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 4:31 AM, Guy R Day <grday at btinternet.com> wrote:
>>
>>  Well thought through David.
>>> However, I don't think you can make a serious claim the Jeep was a
>>> British
>>> design and I would suggest Nippon Miata groups whilst acknowledging the
>>> Miata to be generally based on British design would not claim it to be a
>>> LBC.  Bits of it may well be improved (and other bits not improved)
>>> copies
>>> based on LBCs but it certainly sticks in my throat to say a Mazda is a
>>> British car - just as it would to claim a Jeep is British.
>>>
>>> Guy R Day
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Lieb" <72spridget at gmail.com>
>>> To: "Guy R Day" <grday at btinternet.com>; "Spridgets" <
>>> spridgets at autox.team.net>
>>> Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 7:53 PM
>>>
>>> Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Best Spridget for a condo owner
>>>
>>>
>>>  If you follow this argument then you can make a WWII Jeep to be derived
>>>
>>>> from
>>>>> a British design!!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Well, the original WWII Jeep was designed by the American Bantam
>>>> Company of Butler, Pennsylvania, which had built Austin Sevens under
>>>> license (like BMW had), so maybe there is a relationship there...
>>>> David L
>>>>
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Jim Johnson
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