I Guess It Was All Dave's Brothers Fault

It was tight, but we could fit behind the seats. :ohmy:

My first open car was a red Spitfore MkII. It had a boy racer twin tailpipe straight through exhaust and i can still remember the first sunny day when i took the roof down and suddenly ralised what that car was all about. The Tf is better
Here it is having its noise level measured!

rog1963 wrote: My first ride in a soft top was a BRG mgb in about 1969/70ish....

Often wonder if AYB 600B is still on the road somewhere. I think 'B' would be 1964 which would be a year younger than me.

I checked the DVLA Database and there are no records for that registration number, so I would assume it has not been on the road in a long time.

And some of you may prefer the human interest subject in this one. What a decade that was :ohmy:
one of the old boys there when a girl offered the opinion that this was nice photo commented that it depended what I was trying to take a picture of. Jealousy is so corrosive.

Ah, he though t you were trying to get a good picture of...the building behind? :whistle:

My parents had a Sunbeam Alpine when I was born and used to wedge my carrycot behind the front seats. In the end it had to go for a Mark 1 Escort.
I got hooked on sports cars thanks to my Uncle's TR7. He bought a FHC before they launched the convertible but it had the full length fabric sunroof.
My first MG experience was when my aunt won a Maestro in the Heinz car a day competition sold it to my grandparents and got a BGT.

andy1970h wrote: My parents had a Sunbeam Alpine when I was born and used to wedge my carrycot behind the front seats. In the end it had to go for a Mark 1 Escort.
I got hooked on sports cars thanks to my Uncle's TR7. He bought a FHC before they launched the convertible but it had the full length fabric sunroof.
My first MG experience was when my aunt won a Maestro in the Heinz car a day competition sold it to my grandparents and got a BGT.

BL had to give away the Maestro's with tins of beans because they could not sell them :whistle: :omg:

Well that's a suberb story... but why on earth you didn't bough a Spitfire then?

Sergi, in my case I never actually set out to buy a two seater sports car, I purchased mine on a whim at a car auction :lol:

I guess if I had thought about I would have searched out a spitfire, or as I wanted a car for daily use, I would probably have gone for a BMW Z3.

However having had my MGF for over a year now I don't see it going anywhere in the foreseeable future. It makes me smile every time I drive it and I think a Spitfire after the MGF would just be a disappointment. So I'll leave the Spitfire as an unspoilt happy memory

I have to agree! I just finished a 4 year stint using a 35 year old Triumph (in my case a TR7) as my daily driver.
Once I got it sorted it was a reliable enough car, and went quite well, but there was no comparison to my MGF.
The 20 years of development between them really showed. The MGF is superior in every way; performance, comfort, looks,
and is much more pleasant to drive.
My MGF puts a smile on my face everytime I drive it as well. :thumbsup:

Cheers,
Rich

Strangely enough my first roadster was similar to Birks. My brother in law had a couple of Bugeyes and an MGA that he stored at our place and I used to (or so I'm told, I was only about 5 or 6 at the time) spend all my time playing in them. I had to wait another 30 years before I finally bought my 1969 MGB and shortly after that I added my F to the collection.

bacchus wrote: Strangely enough my first roadster was similar to Birks. My brother in law had a couple of Bugeyes and an MGA that he stored at our place and I used to (or so I'm told, I was only about 5 or 6 at the time) spend all my time playing in them. I had to wait another 30 years before I finally bought my 1969 MGB and shortly after that I added my F to the collection.

The pedal car is probably worth a fortune now, i had an Austin one which were actually made by Austin, saw one recently i a collection and they reckon it is worth £10K ~ there is a guy in Rye , Sussex who collects pedal cars and has just opened a museum.
The MGB looks a nice car too :thumbsup: