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MG TD TF 1500 - My first MG

I have been thinking of my first TD. Bought it for $1000 in 1970 in Sacramento, when I was 18. It was a 1952, clipper blue. I custom made a walnet dash for it. It had a bad 3rd gear that the local MG dealer could not fix. I sold it to a fellow from the SF Bay Area who planned to put a Volvo B18 engine and tranny in it. Does this sound familiar to anyone? I'd love to know where my first love is?
No idea on the car number.

Tom
Tom Norby

Ok Tom here's mine:

In 1966 while going to the University of Washington My fiance (Marcy, still my current wife) and I went to look at a 1954 mgtf 1250 that was in pieces. It was torn down to the rolling chassis, motor out and everything was in boxes. Marcy worked for Boeing and put up the $350 and over the next six months I restored it. Surprise of all surprises was that all the parts were there and very few extras were left over once assembled. Being such a new car at the time it didn't need a lot of hard things like tub work and all but it got a rebuild on the engine and tranny and all new paint and upholstery. Yes, nearly all the parts needed came from Moss :-) The car was completed in time to take our honeymoon to Victoria BC in the Sprintime. That MG stayed with us for about three more years when we needed a bit better family transportation.

A few years later we bought a 1963 Jag MK2 and that started us off with the Jaguar club and many many Jags through the next 30 years. Marcy is still driving a Jag, a 1994 VDP with 60,000 miles and concourse condition though I won't do shows anymore.

As you know last September I sold the beautiful 1955 TF 1500 I had for about five years. It was a tremendous car but with our life style changing a bit I thought it best to see it get a good home where it will be used and taken care of. Perhaps in a year or two I'll have to find a new toy, maybe an XK8? Still I'll always have a soft spot for the "T"s.


Dave Clark

Hive Dave C,

Now that TF would have been mighty difficult
to part with,very nice.

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

My first MG was a 1952 MG YB Saloon. 2 tone green with black interior. Even the jack-all system and the trafficators worked. I bought it in 1978 in Valdosta, GA. I reluctantly sold it about a year later as my now ex-wife hated it. I last saw it parked on the street in downtown Valdosta in 1980. I would like to re-locate it and get pictures of it along with my 1952 TD Mark II.

John Masters

I can't even find a screw driver I used 5 minutes ago. Look for my first car (63 Sprite) I sold 34 years ago.....Good luck.

LaVerne
LED DOWNEY

Here is a picture of my first MG TD which I still have after some 40 odd years. It was purchased sometime in either the late 60's or early 70's and even way back then I had to make it my own by giving it a custom paint job. I made many adventures with this little ride and traveled countless miles all over the world. Looking at it there are a few nicks and chips and a couple of the tires actually have flat spots but I guess that was from sliding sideways in a road rally or maybe running from the law:)




Richard Taylor

My first sports car was a Bugeye Sprite...had it in 1963/4 ... it came off the race track and had a Weber 40(?)...helped do the body/paint and paid a shop $40.00...)(the colour was 'Nocturn Blue Metalic)...sold it to a good friend who on an especially curvy piece of roadway, flipped it end over end....he walked away, but the car was totalled....!!!


gblawson(gordon)

Hi:
My first new car was a ’63 Sprite that my son now has. It’s like George Washington’s hatchet . . . it is the original that I bought new – it however, has had a new body and three new engines and two new tranys and a new diff. It now sports a Capri 2.6 V6, Ford 4 speed and a narrowed rear-end. The engine has an Offenhouser intake, Holly 400 cfm carb, Isky cam, and is ported polished & balanced. The front suspension is a Lotus 11 knock-off with mustang II disk brakes. The last time it ran in anger it was 1/10 of a second faster than a Vet and 2/10 slower that a Formula Atlantic.
Godspeed in Safety Fast
Jc



John Crawley

And my 3rd MG - Tessy the TC on the straight at the old Speedway Park in Edmonton . . .
Jc


John Crawley

Nice front fenders, John - I think I recognize them.

In case the rest of you don't know the story, the cycle fenders on John's TC in the previous black and white picture are the same cycle fenders that are now on my TD.

Some of you won't know the story of the hard top either - thanks to a bunch of you, it made its way across two countries, from east coast to west. After messing with custom side curtains, we got out the sidecutter last weekend and reformed it so that it fits both front and back stock sidecurtains. The net effect is beautiful. It's is almost ready for headliner and painting. It runs, it stops, even the heater works. We've almost got ourselves a car.

- And this is my first MG, though I wanted to build a TC out of an Austin A40 Somerset in 1968. When you're 12 years old, anything is possible

Dave


Dave Jorgensen

I don't have an MG (yet -- I'm in the process of finishing up a '59 Bugeye) but a MG TD is the car that made my first connection to the marque. It was owned by a good friend of my grandmother (and her eventual second husband), a fine man named Marshal Smith. He bought it from my aunt's college roommate in the mid 1960s -- she was heading off to Greece for a year, and he offered to let her buy it back if she returned. She never did, and he had the car until the mid 1990s. Don't know offhand what year it was, and I never even went for a ride in it, but it made a lasting impression on me and is the reason I really want to find a TD of my own some day.

I love this picture, taken 8 months before I was born. The woman standing next to the car is my grandmother, who is still with us today at 91 though Marshal has passed on. She loved riding in that car! Sadly, when they had to sell the car I was fresh out of college and of extremely limited means. I'd love to find out where it is today.


Drew Frink

Dave C.
Would you happen to have the paint code for your TF
Very close to mine . . .
Jc


John Crawley

Yours truly, 1959 in the only MG I only would afford then—what I longed for was an MGA


David Werblow

Fifty years later—now I can’t afford a TC!


David Werblow

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