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MG MGA - Sentimental value

Following on from the $114,000 thread.

Leaving aside "market" value, what is the sentimental value of your MGA - is it $114,000, or is that just the workshop cost for tools, garaging, labour hours and marital strife that you have given over for your car?

On the plus side, what value the enjoyment.
dominic clancy

Sentimental value?....PRICELESS.
I'll never sell my coupe....someone else will deal with that.

GTF
G T Foster

My A is probably worth $20K USD. I'd sell it for $25K USD. Then I'd buy a $25K USD MGA.

My '65 B on the other hand is not for sale at any price. Ok, I'd take a billion dollars, but a price someone rich would actually offer on the car would never be high enough to give it up.
Steve Simmons

I'm with Gerry and Steve. My A is worth a lot more to me than anyone else. When I'm gone (which I don't expect to be the case for many more years) my kids can do what they want with it. But for now the A is not for sale at any price. On the other hand, my B (which is slowly reverting back to basic elements), while not actively for sale, is available to the highest bidder.

Bill
Bill Boorse

I waited 30 years to buy my second MGA. My tale is remarkably similar to those in the "good old days" thread - a $250 MGA in 1970 that ended up with a broken crank shaft, sold as a parts car. I probably spent less than a couple hundred dollars on parts and supplies on my first go-round. But it took me everywhere, and only failed me near to home. Luckily I had a friend with a Jeep and a chain.

I've spent a lot more than that this time, and its worth every penny.

"You can take my MGA from my cold dead hands !"

-Chuck
Chuck Mosher

I lurked on the 114,000 thread and the question did cross my mind. It took me 10 years to find my MGA, a car I had wanted since I was a kid. I grew up with a '66 MGB that was my Mom's 16th birthday present and once in awhile we'd have to take it to a shop for wwork my Dad could not do. There was usually a shiny red MGA there and I fell in love with it very early on.

I had to get rid of my Mom's car before I was even old enough to drive it due to a rusty frame and lack of money to fix it and it really bugged me, but the search for my "A" was on.

10 years later I found it. I've had it about 10 years now and I don't intend on ever getting rid of it.

Even a better example cannot replace all the memories I've had in *that* car and all the sweat that went into it.

While I still want a TR3 badly, I'll never get rid of the "A" to have one. And I'd never consider "upgrading" my current "A" either, I sooner by a second.

Nope, I'm afraid this car is stuck with me for the long haul.

Cheers,
Christopher
christopher wilson

Back in 2002 - I must have had a black out or some other disorder - I sold my very beautiful and reliable MGB MkII Roadster and ever since that day I felt very sorry, missing it dearly. Ever since I spent many evenings spelling Clausager, visiting classics websites, reading classics magazines... until earlier this year, when my wife urged me to buy a very fine MGA (1957). I did so. A few weeks ago we bought a MGB GT (1970) for daily use. Things are okay again, pampering and driving these fine cars... sentimental value, indeed, priceless too, but foremost they add to quality of life!
Jan Donders

Hi Folks. My son will inherit my MGA when I pass on. He loves the car almost as much as I do. But if I had no son, I would give some thought to the notion of being BURIED IN IT! Cheers! Glenn
Glenn

Glenn,
I've often said "When I die, just dig a big hole in the backyard, put me in the MG, push it into the hole and cover it up." OK, so it's not exactly legal.....

GTF
G T Foster

I have always said that anything is for sale at the right price. What do you all suppose might be the "right price" to get me to part with "The MGA with an Attitude"? http://MGAguru.com
Barney Gaylord

Now Barney,
You are "MGA with an attitude." Without you it's not. I personally think that you should make a CD with all your info on it and sell it.
You have a wealth of information there.
MGAguru.com? I don't know, have you had offers?
mike parker

Over 15 years of ownership I have shared more with my car than is healthy!!
2 wedding using wedding cars tonbridges, 4 trips from Germany to Silverstone, 3 trips from Brussels to Silverstone, a major falling out when the battery went flat at 2.00am one morning when I was trying to impress a young lady, twice running with the oil filter seal not mounted correctly and using over 1 litre of oil per 100kms, summer drives through German back roads in the hills, nursing it back to health when there has been a wheeze or cough ... Okay enough, enough.

Much sentimentality and I still use it almost every day. We are like Siamese twins, selling it now would be like selling my kidneys. If the price or the need for money was big it may just be considered but I know I would regret it always.

Neil
Neil

Glen and GTF

I have already let it be known that I want my MGA to continue with life after I am gone. Could not bear to see it go in a hole with me. My solution is for my ashes to be put in a metal box and be welded to the chassis. That way I get chauferred around, keep an eye on the car and terrorise (haunt) the next owner if he does not keep it up to par!

Steve
Steve Gyles

Steve,
Great idea! Talk about an "MG with an attitude"......:)

GTF
G T Foster

This thread was discussed between 21/11/2005 and 25/11/2005

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