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I was just browsing the midget forum in the other placece, and they have a thread where everyone posted a picture of themselves, some with family, some with their car.

I thought it was a great thread, and am surprised that there were a lot of young people.

But MGAs go where others fear to tread....

Here's a photo of me on the Kenya Ethiopia border - what can you offer in a similar unkempt condition under or by an MGA?

Dominic Clancy

here I am on the left

Photo of our Dear Leader in the next post

Dominic Clancy

All hail to Mr Godwin

The dents in the door are the result of a "get to know the locals" initiative in Addis Abbaba

Dominic Clancy

And not to forget Laurel in Zulu fashion

Dominic Clancy

Great pictures Dominic, I would have loved to have been on the Cape to Cairo trip.

I love the look of Dave's "Bimini" top, it is obviously practical but it also looks pretty good on RIP too.

Cheers
Colyn

Colyn Firth

Me and my all terrain vehicle ....

Chris at Octarine Services

Very nice vehicle Chris, great head-gear, (you and the horse).
It must be a nice change to not need a rolling road dyno to be able to calculate the bhp. :-)

Colyn

Colyn Firth

Horses, on average, produce about 30bhp.

When fit and an athletic breed like her, that can go up to almost challenge a standard MGA,,,,

Chris at Octarine Services

Dom!

Those are some serious dents....Awesome looking car!

Love the advertisements on the side...looks like fun!

Chris...I always pictured you as a really young guy.....in my mind. I had no reason to know...I think it was your always willing to help attitude.

Now I see you are a veteran with lots to share...thanks for your input...you are always a source of good knowledge.

Nice to see what others look like!

See if you can get Nigel to post one! lol!

Me in my other cabriolet, hood down, or should I say up. Bit more grey hair now. It was a while back!

Steve

Steve Gyles

Never thought I would say this but there seems to be even less space in than vehicle than in your MGA Steve.😁

Also surprised to see that it has a top(canopy) on it! I thought you would have insisted that the RAF should remove it😂.

Cheers
Colyn

Colyn Firth

Me hiding under bush hat at 7000 ft on the Col du Tourmalet, Pyrenees 2018

Colyn Firth

Better picture of MGA, (and of me as I am standing much further away from the camera😁 ) I am just visible to the rear of the car wearing the same hat!
Again on the Col du Tourmalet at 7000 ft Pyrenees.20184

Colyn Firth

Steve (the divine), you should offer your photo for a safety warning, it's a perfect example of someone asleep at the wheel.

I think there is a photo of me on the BBS but you missed it, I thought of you seeing it though.

Dominic is different to how I imagined, I thought thinner and older, a bit professor looking, similar to Chris but without a beard.

Colyn is in full disguise with that hat.

I'm not putting up a photo now as Steve Gyles has set the bar too high and a good looking guy too.

There must be a story to the horse head wear.

Nigel Atkins

Steve Gyles, on the right, helping me fit stub stacks in Melbourne, 2012.

Barry Gannon

And Steve again, at the wheel of my car at Philip Island Grand Prix track, soon after a 100mph. drive that saw me with white knuckles!
Barry

Barry Gannon

Heres me at night....with my eyes open!

Nigel....you cant show your face because you are really just a Russian hacker reporting back to the Kremlin about all these MG activities out here in the decadent west!

I see threw your communistic ways comrad! lol!

Nigel,

The horse's (her name is Scully) "hat" is to keep flies from getting in her ears.

Chris at Octarine Services

Steve,
the exposure on the photo is far too high, we can see you as well as the car, apart from that nice photo.

Did you have the same English teacher as Prop?.

Chris,
well I never, looks very heraldic.

Nigel Atkins

Im just Proping things up! lol!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j9IJvXmB3w

OK, "my" MGA is actually Melon's MGA. Here's a picture of her the day she drove it home.

I thought of this in response to Dominic's earlier comment about "young people" - she was 19 at the time.

KR Doris

Wow! Great vintage picture! I love that color combo on an A! MK2 I think?

Apologies for being a bit slow on the uptake here, just realised that I had basically posted a couple of pics of my car and scenery but none that showed my actual face.
So get ready to cover the eyes of any nearby pets and young children who may be looking at your screen, wouldn't want to scare anyone :-)

Pic of us at the signpost at John-o-Groats in 2015.

The MGA and I were fine but my wife Chris is hanging on to the signpost because she has a cast on her leg having broken it in the Lands End hotel the night before the start of the Tour.
(This time my face is only partially covered :-)

Colyn

Colyn Firth

I had to go back in time a little to find a picture related to KR’s and Dominic’s “young people” theme.

This is my yellow TC special “MG Buttercup” at Sandown Park, Melbourne Australia, in the late 1960s. Buttercup had started its racing life with supercharged XPAG power, but when I bought it, as a post-graduate student at the University of Melbourne, it had an 1800 B-Series race engine and a close-ratio MGA gearbox.

Just over 14 seconds for a standing quarter mile got it off the grid very quickly. It was fantastic fun to drive, and is still running today in historic races in the hands of its latest guardian.

Mike Card

M D Card

To continue the single-seater picture series above, with horse, fighter aircraft, and motor-bike, this is Calder Raceway near Melbourne Australia, in the early 1970s. Formula Ford had just arrived and I converted an Elfin FJ chassis to FF. Number 36 on the right.

Colyn, Apologies, no visible face here either.

Mike Card

M D Card

Steve Devine - yes, MKII with Old English White with Red interior.

Steve Gyles - does that "MAR 54" on your ejection seat mean build date or expiration date?

- Ken

KR Doris

Martin Baker?

One of our customers.

Dave O'Neill 2

Ken

It was an RAF Marham Tornado GR1 so the MAR was short for Marham and presumably No.54 on the Ejection Seat Bay inventory. Probably like the one I used earlier was No.93 on the Leuchars inventory. We had 3 squadrons of F4s there at the time with something in the region of 50 to 60 aircraft - 2 seats per aircraft.

That photo at Marham was immediately prior to crossing the pond to land at Ellsworth AFB in South Dakota for a USAF Bombing Competition - which we won!!

Steve

Steve Gyles

Steve - there must be an interesting story behind that picture of #93!

- Ken

KR Doris

Looks like littering of the countryside to me. :)

I was (really) thinking the same.

Nigel Atkins

Well, I was accelerating down the runway rapidly going through about 130mph with both burners going full blast when the electrics threw wobblies throughout the flight control system; the nosewheel slewed fully starboard and the aircraft went into an uncontrollable broadside slide; I thought I might cartwheel as I left the tarmac and with 16,000lbs of fuel around me.......! I make a decision. The aircraft in fact ran on for a few hundred yards on the soggy ground and stayed intact but I wasn't to know that. I suffered a badly fractured spine on ground impact. The alternatives were no injuries or possible fatality. You act how you see it at the time.

They later found the yaw rate gyro that gives yaw correction commands to the flight controls had not been bolted to its platform, instead was jolting around arising to false readings and incorrect commands.

Steve

Steve Gyles

Steve - After that, doing 100 mph in Barry Gannon's MGA must have seemed a bit boring :~)

But not to Barry!

- Ken

KR Doris

Mike Card
Not many people on MGA forums that put their hand up to being Elfin owners
I had a Streamliner years ago, one of the first batch built with the split beam axle front end----wish I still had that now, they've become quite a collectors car
willy

William Revit

Willy

Your Elfin Streamliner must have been a pretty car.

My Elfin FJ came to me as a bare chassis with a set of four uprights, a fibreglass body, and a VW box. I had to make or source the rest. Ford Australia sold the new Kent engines to Formula Ford owners at a fair price, and I got Paul England to do the blue-printing. I ran it wet-sump with baffles, everyone else ran dry-sump

During the Tasman series at Sandown Park (the Melbourne one, not the one near me now in England) the F3 and FF cars would sometimes race together. I destroyed the car at that track, and woke up in hospital. In those days the chassis was not considered worth repairing. Like your Streamliner it would be very sought after today for historic events.

I imagine that Elfin cars are probably not well known outside Australia.

Cheers
Mike

M D Card

Massive thread drift here. Those contributing should be posting selfies.....

Dominic Clancy

More thread drift
It's about Elfins so it's ok
Mike
Living about 10 Klm out the road from me is a guy named Spencer Lambert and he was a long time employee of G Cooper(Elfin) and one of the cars he built was a very nice 300 which was sold to a guy in the US and was hardly ever if ever used
Couple of years ago he traced it down and bought it for himself--He's probably a little old to do it justice but it attracts plenty of attention at motor shows when he brings it out

William Revit

other end

I have a friend here with a Streamliner with mga twin cam running gear and supercharged
Best looking car on the planet

William Revit

Last one Dom.
The Streamliner

William Revit

Way back in 1974 at Zandvoort. I was 24 at the time

Rutger Booy

Fantastic Rutger, you've had that car for a while then

William Revit

Willy

Superb Streamliner. I can see why you wish you still had yours today.

Mike

M D Card

Myself, my wife and her MGA here in Southern California a couple years ago.

Steve Simmons

Here’s me stuck in traffic on Interstate 95, coming home from a British car show in Northern Virginia. Nice pull handle MGB in front of me.

Jim

JL Cheatham

don't forget this page

http://users.telenet.be/mga/MG-Owners-Gallery/MGA/album/MGA.html

G C Pugh

Been looking for a picture interesting enough to put up
This is in 1969-70 when I had hair-
Can't remember that-
The car was the second car I'd owned the first being an angry little 105e Anglia which saw a lot of competition work till it didn't want to play anymore
This 100/4 Healey had a 3.4 t/c Jaguar engine and auto which i manualised- It was like a rocketship to drive and quickly taught me that i liked speed----One interesting feature of the car that created some amusement with passengers was that because it had a variety of holes in the firewall and trans tunnel it had a habit of blowing the carpet up off the floor when you were having a crack--- I tracked this car down hoping to buy it back earlier this year but it's been exported back to the UK---so look out ,it'll eat you if you get too close

ha ha ha h--
lol
willy

That's me on the left then brother in law then my bro. on the right--my brother is in his 70's now and still looks exactly the same, actually I think he's still wearing that jumper---ha ha ha

William Revit

Willy, my very first car was a 1957 105e Anglia. I was 14 years old. My buddy and I used to sneak out at night, push the car out into the street and taught ourselves how to drive stick shift. The car had no license plates, no insurance, and no inspection (MOT). Not to mention at 14 years old neither of us had a driving license.

Cheers

Gary
79 MGB

gary hansen

Good stuff Gary mine was a 61 model with the chrome strip along under the side windows--
-sounds scaringly familiar
My next door neighbour and I were given an old Morris Ten when we were around that age
Our parents weren't too happy when they found out we had it parked down the road and went for night drives-even less impressed when it fell over and the nice policeman growled at us--

Cheers
willy

William Revit

Willy, was there a pic with your post? I don't see one.

Jud

J. K. Chapin

Hmm-you make a good point Jud--bit of a fluffy pic, but there you go-

William Revit

I never knew Healeys came in GT. Is that factory or after market or something else? pretty spiffy looking. Jud

J. K. Chapin

Willy, loved the Healey. Noticed the 1963 Chevrolet parked behind you guys. Squnting at the trim, it is not the Impala, which was the top of the line.

Laughing at you brother's shirt. Some years ago, I renewed my passport, which we do here every 10 years, and discovered the shirt I wore 10 years ago was the same as was wearing when I renewed the passport.

Cheers

Gary
79 MGB

gary hansen

Me (right) with Rowdies club president Bill Weakley at the 2018 Orphan Car Show held in Bellville, Michigan USA.

Regards,
Jerry

gjesion

Mitch Andrus (black shirt) and me (blue shirt) at the Furman Scottish Games in 2016.

Jud

J. K. Chapin

Me with my MGA on the other side of the field with the Grand Marshall also at the Scottish Games 2016.

Jud

J. K. Chapin

Gary
i don't know what model the Chev was, I tried blowing the original pic up but it goes fuzzy
It belonged next door, the guy there owned the local GM dealership---I'll try and find out,it was a 4 door pale grey white roof red trim but can't remember -my mum will know, she doesn't forget anything -! at the ripe old age of 96
It was interesting back then that guy had the GM dealership and my old man ran the Ford dealership---it was all car talk over the fence at weekends
The roof on the Healey was a one off home made job, a permanent fit--a bit ugly now but back then it was 'special'- in my eyes anyway
The pic doesn't do the colour justice it was a really deep purple--Elvis would have liked it-----------lol
willy

William Revit

Gary
She thinks it was a Belair
--apparently it had some sort of badge on the guard and bel air in two words--?? bench seat and manual column change gearbox
Doesn't miss a trick my mum
better memory than me,that's for sure
cheers

William Revit

Me enjoying my MGA