Re: MG the Best Sports Car? Hardly!

[George Graves <gmgraves@domain.elided>]

on 7/9/02 6:00 PM, alfa-digest at owner-alfa-digest@domain.elided wrote:

> Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 19:52:41 EDT
> From: TATERRY@domain.elided
> Subject: RE: MG the Best Sports Car? Hardly!
> 
> Now that you guys have had your fun bashing MG, I'd just like to say that
> while I love my '84 Spider, I also love my MG's: 4 of them.  A '34 NA
> Magnette 6 cyl overhead cam, a '37 Big MG SA drop head Tickford coupe, a '38
> TA which I just drove top down all the way from Oakland to Durango, CO and
> back for our Western Gathering of the Faithful. Didn't miss a beat and I
> never saw one Alfa on the road......just Austin Healys heading to Lake Tahoe
> for their Gathering.  Oh, last MG is an Arnolt TD, body by Bertone.  One of a
> hundred made, you might have seen it at Concours Italino in past
> years...peacock blue.
> 
> Our own Scott Fisher is a former MG guy.......he has been strangely silent
> during this little bash session.
> 
> This list alone is proof that Alfa is NOT the greatest sports car ever
> either...... you guys have way more electrical problems than the Prince ever
> thought of having!!
> 
> Now back to Alfa problems!!
> Cheers
> Terry in Oakland


The original poster was talking, specifically, about the MGB. Some newspaper
hack apparently proclaimed it as "the best sports car in the world" or some
such nonsense. Certainly, any pre-war British sports car such as yours are
beyond reproach simply because vintage driving is a whole other experience
from modern (post war) sports car driving. I certainly envy you your prewar
MGs, they were glorious machines which 'defined' sports cars for millions
the world over. Unfortunately, the MGB is not as deservedly loved.

George Graves
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