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MG TD TF 1500 - HALF A CENTURY!

Bought TF9142 in 1967. Met my wife the same year (actually, she fell in love with the TF) and it was our wedding using wedding cars tunbridge wells car in 1969. Still going strong - TF too.

David


DavePro

David,

You beauty !! Fifty(50) years of TF ownership and the success of marriage longevity as well.


I wonder if this could start a long Thread re the number of years the current owners of TDs and/or TFs have had the 'custodianship' of their cars ?

Cheers
Rob Grantham
TF3719("Aramis"),TF9177("Athos").
Rob Grantham

Here is me in TD19629 in 1952. Clue: I am not the driver (well not legally).




Christopher Couper

Congratulations all round!
Dave H
Dave Hill

My parents also bought their TF in the early 60s. Brought it home and started a 6 month restoration together. Married soon after. Still together and still have the car although it would have been sold a couple of times over and swapped for a Pagoda SL by my dad if my mother hadn't put her foot down. Great memories of us all traveling in it 2 adults and 2 kids! Dad turns 80 in April and the plan is to have it back on the road by then.

Pic of Mum in the car just after restoration in the early 60s


D Lamb

Doris & I in our first TD, Summer 1956. Bud


Bud Krueger

I love hearing about long term ownership of cars. I have had my TD for what 4 months! I have been the owner of an Austin Healey 100 since my early 20's so over 30 years. It is currently undergoing a restoration to bring it back to life. My TD and 100 are just 15 months apart in build date. To me they represent the end of one era and the start of another. By the time the mid 60's rolled around when some of you were acquiring your TF's and TD's were they yet considered collectors cars, or were they just old fashioned tatty relics that no one cared about?
S Griffin

Also - here's a picture of our '52 MG TD (16504) taken somewhere in Kingston, Ontario, back in the late summer of 1968 with my, then girlfriend , now wife, Lynne. Still have both of them - she's in the house and the car's in the shed undergoing a restoration after spending some 45+ years in the barn.

Charlie King
'52 TD 16504



C. G. King

How 'bout SIXTY-ONE years

(Top) A club member in his 1950 TD photographed by his wife soon after they bought the car in 1956.

(Bottom) Same car, same driver, same wife, same location in March 2016

By the way, he still drives the car the way that it was intended ... fast!

Beautiful car, wonderful family, and an asset to the MG community. He was one of the founders of our club, The Classic MG Club, in 1963.

Lonnie
TF7211


LM Cook

Great memories and photos guys!

My image is of self with older brother, Bill, while dismantling my TC in 1963. I was 11 years old. Dad bought the very run-down TC so we could learn about cars. I am still driving it but it needs another restoration. This is my road TC (not the race car).

Bob Schapel


R L Schapel

My car with the first owner Richard at Ayers Rock (Uluru) in 1960. Richard sold the car to my Dad in 1973 and I became custodian in 1989.

Matthew.


M Magilton

The same place with myself in 1995.

Matthew.


M Magilton

That's a great then-and-now shot Lonnie, I can appreciate how patient you have to be to get everything lined up.

Matthew.
M Magilton

Here's Lazarus with owner in 1959 and same person in 2004. See http://www.ttalk.info/Tech/OldFriend.htm for story. Bud


Bud Krueger

TFer Gordon Clark,has owned his red car from new,about 61 years ?

Cheers
Rob Grantham
Rob Grantham

The "owned from new" club is a very small one these days. There was a Sydney member until recently when he regretfully sold it.
M Magilton

Matthew, A lot of people wouldn't realise the distance you had to travel to get a shot in front of Ayers Rock now called Uluru. Congratulations ...John
John Walton

46 year owner here.


Bruce Cunha

John W.,

Around 2,320 kms I would say ! However,Matt. then travelled on to Perth which is considerably further qgain. He loves his TF1500.

Bruce C., nice photo of your TD.

Rob Grantham
Rob Grantham

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