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MG TD TF 1500 - Your Vintage Photo's

Hi All. I know many of you have had your cars for many years. Here is your chance to go find the old photo boxes and reminisce a little. Show us some of your TD photo's from the past.

I will start. Here is me (wow, I had hair) and my lovely wife in our first parade back in 1978 escorting Smokey Bear. Note the brass radiator shell. I did not have the funds to get all the chrome redone at that time so, I striped it and polished the brass on the shell and the rear mirror.


Bruce Cunha

Bruce, dont you wish you could have rechromed at the rates charged in 78 vs. todays costs.
Tom Maine (TD8105)

Tom. I have a restoration of the TD in the future and even now, I am not sure I will able to afford getting all the chrome redone.
Bruce Cunha

My mom and her dog back in the early 1960's!


RK Rich

Me (in hat) and my high school buddy with my TD in 1959.


David DuBois

Fast forward to 1976 - Trip to GoF West in Long Beach CA
Cheers - Dave


David DuBois

Just had my windshield chromed this year 400 bucks the hard way.
Tom Maine (TD8105)

....i'm just a new guy to the TD.... but going back to a pretty special day.....
The seller and I.....


gblawson(gordon- TD27667)

Fun idea Bruce
This is my TF in 1988 with prior owner on a trip from NY to Florida. Note the cool luggage accessory on the rear. We don't have South of the Border restaurants on the west coast. Are they still around?

Merry Christmas

Tom
'54 TF


Tom Norby

1967 before I took it apart.
Lake Park Florida.

Jim B.


JA Benjamin

me in the TD in Nov of 1981. Wichita, KS.


Dave Braun

10 years later at the GOF Central, Plymouth, MN


Dave Braun

Lazarus with owner, Bob Baldwin, in 1959:



Bud Krueger

Same car, same driver, now 2004
BTW, Lazarus has been mine since 1988. Bud


Bud Krueger

The site is an old Air Force training station in southern Alberta. The event is a handicap race on the 2nd last lap. The Healy past me on the next long straight and the MGA on the last corner before the finish. Pretty good hadicaping I'd say. Oh yes, I should note this was in 1961. I was quite happy with a 3rd place.


George Raham [TD4224]

This is my first car, a bronze 51 TD that I bought in 1956 while in the USAF. I would love to find the old girl that sported clipped fenders, a motometer and of all things, a trailer hitch. I last saw it in Homestead FL. Somewhere I have pictures of it being raced in central Florida in 1955.


R Lambert

1956, PO with his daughters...




Jasper L Nederhoed

Jasper. I am intrigued with the side curtains. Looks like the PO has had some material made that hangs down. I assume to reduce drafts?
Bruce Cunha

Bruce,

I don't know but I guess you're right. In the same year he and his wife drove the TD to Florence (Italy) and back for holidays. I can imagine that they've prepared the car for that (long) ride. See also the home-made luggage facility on the back.

For a better image see below (pic taken in Italy).

Jasper




Jasper L Nederhoed

Jasper
That luggage trunk is similar to the one on the back of my TF in the '80's. Photo posted a few entries above.
I do recall seeing some old accessory ads somewhere of a firm selling add-on luggage trunks. The one on my TF involved bumper attachment extensions, obviously, as you see the bumper out further beyound the trunk.
Anybody have one of these still??

Tom
'54 TF
Tom Norby

My first TD (a '53) in '56 w/future wife. Bud


Bud Krueger

Here is Little-T with previous owner Michael Applegate who disassembled him sometime around 1973. He is still in pieces but slowly moving along.

Merry Christmas

Rich


Richard Taylor TD3983

My TD "Margaret" with PO and friends in 1971. Disassembled later that year for restoration.Forty years later and 2000 miles from this picture, she lives again. Dan


Dan Craig

P.S. Found the license plate in the picture in a box of parts. Margaret wore them again for her first miles on the road again. Dan
Dan Craig

To all of you, great photos of beautiful cars. You really do have THE classic looking MG (from a very happy B owner).

Bud (you would have to be US of A!), love the car (the '56 photo) - and I might go on, but my mother would shoot me!

Regards to all
Roger
Roger T

Hope no one minds the divergence but I could not find any photos of my 53 TD from 1966-68.
I did find some photos of my new Sprite circa 1961-63 taken behind the barracks in the German Alps. We were going skiing and that is me in formal attire in the middle.


Mort 1950 TD1851 Möbius

Hi,
a not very happy picture weeks after a rebuild in 1975, taught me not to believe other peoples signals.
I cut the wing up along all the creaselines then welded all the bits, it looks like I knitted it from below!
Ray TF2884


Ray Lee

Mort,

You could not have picked a more perfect tie.

Rob
Rob Welborne

It's been a few years since I've posted anything, but still own the TD and get it out regularly. Here's a shot of the PO handing the keys to me the day I bought it in October 2000. I'm the younger guy, with hair.

Regards,

Steve




Steve Markman

Hi All:
“Tessy the Tc” & me at the CanAm races in Edmonton in 1973.
Paul Newman was there and came up to me in the pits and asked if I realised that my time on the short track was exactly the same as Denny Hulme in his McLaren on the long track. He then took me over to meet Hulme and asked him if he wanted to race my TC in a demo match – me in the TC on the short track and him on the long track in the McLaren. Paul offered to put up a $1,000 bet on the TC. Hulme’s reply is not printable but ended with . . . off Newman, said with a big grin. Too bad the race never took place – it would be one for the books.

Note the hair and the helmet!

Godspeed in
Safety Fast
Jc


John Crawley

Here is a photo of me and my new 1961 MGA roadster in 1961. The car was about a month old. I didn't get my 1st TD until 1963 and it was a 1952.


David Honness

This is a picture of my TD back in the 60's when it was of course my fathers car and depending on the year I was either not born yet on a couple of years old. By the look of the cleanliness of the garage I will assume I was not yet born. If you look just behind the lawn mower you will see the green fender (wing) of my uncles 54 TF HDE 43/560 that my father was working on for him. I would actuaaly like very much to find out who has the TF and what condition it is in. Oh, and stop checking out my aunt:)

Rob


Rob Welborne

That was then, this is now. Our TF in 1965 and the restored version in 2010. Everyday driver for over 45 years. All the best to the T Family in 2012!
Tim


Tim Moylan

This is my 51 TD as imported from California in May 1989 still wearing its reg DOZ 968. The Lab was very fond of riding in it but chose to sit in the back.

Cheers,

David


David Tinker

This is a pic when we got our TD home in 1984 after finding it in a barn where it had been stored on blocks for 17 years. It was always Annies dream to get one, and here she is sitting in it celebrating with a Martini!


STEVE WINCZE

Steve Wincze,
Do you have any history on prior owners? I sold my black TD just about the time yours went into storage. I was living in NYC at the time. Just wondering?????
Mort
Mort 1950 TD1851 Möbius

Steve Wincze,
Do you have any history on prior owners? I sold my black TD just about the time yours went into storage. I was living in NYC at the time. Just wondering?????
Mort
Mort 1950 TD1851 Möbius

Mort,
The PO of our car was a teacher who lived in W Hartford CT,,, she didn't have a drivers liscence, and had family members drive her,,, The car was put on blocks in a windowless area of a barn on Montivedao Drive on Avon Mt when she moved (coincedently) to NY..

SPW
STEVE WINCZE

Hi Steve,
I went to high school in W. Htfd, maybe I knew (of) her, tho' don't remember the TD. I grad. in 1959, went off to college for 2 yrs, then back from abt mid-61 to late 62. I bought a 52 TD in late '61, back to college 62-64, only back to visit after that. But if your car went on blocks in about '67, I was there in about the right time frame.
A W Parker

Yours truly, in my MG in 1959. I know it's not a TD but I do have a TF now.


David Werblow

My 1950, TD2053, XPAG2436/EXR photo dated April 1963. I bought it during 1961 or 1962 during a newspaper strike in the New York City area. Price was $265 brakes inoperative!
E. R. Constant

Sorry for not having a TD photo, but here's me in 1968, at Orlando AF Station, with my AH 100-6 (customized)....
Edward


E.B. Wesson

I got nothing... that's me and my sister in our church duds. Must be about 1957 or 58. 63 Sprite came along when I was 14 and my brother wound up with all the pictures somehow. the T's didn't come around until about 6 years ago with no prior photos.


LaVerne

Found a few more pics of my Sprite from the early 60's in Germany. The one in the lower left is interesting. It was mailed to my company commander from the local German police. Yep, a speed trap. I was doing 70 kph thru a local town. I had to mail in a fine and got to keep a copy of the evidence. Always thought it was pretty hi tech for 1962.
The other photos are interesting also but for an entirely different reason ;)


Mort 1950 TD1851 Möbius

My wife dug out the scrapbooks yesterday, here are 2 (1 in next msg) of our 52 TD. This pic was probably in early 62, at her house before we were married. It was originally grey, from the factory, the only grey one I've ever seen. Sorry for the pic quality, it was a very small pic, which I scanned & blew up a bit.


A W Parker

The "upload" link won't work for me, I'll try again later. Have tried several times in a few hours.
A W Parker

AW - sometimes the image window for a second image winds up as a window 'behind' the main BBS window. This tends to happen if you don't click 'close' in the first image window. This happens to me periodically with Firefox. The other multiple image problem is that the system won't accept a subsequent image unless there is some text with it that is different from the previous text. Bud
BTW, Silver Streak Gray came into being in 1952.
Bud Krueger


Thanks Bud, I found there was an open window.
here's the next, with memories. Taken at a motel at Whiteface Mtn, NH, in a Fall 1963 weekend of an SCCA hillclimb. Next car is a Daimler (remember those, a V-8) belonging to Jack & Pat, who were friends. That's me next to the TD, Pat at the Daimler, maybe Jack crouching behind the railing. "My" Pat must have snapped the pic. The following Spring, I snapped an axle shaft of the TD at a gymkhana, and was towed home by the Daimler.
Al


A W Parker

Taken around 1972 - TF1500 TF8926
I was about 16 - taking my older sister for a spin.
The car was originally green, was painted black by PO.
Still own the car and it is now green.
Sorry for the flash - I just took a picture of a picture - not having a scanner.


R.T. Walsh

Don't know what I've done wrong. Tried a couple of times to upload the 1963 picture of my 1950 TD2053 XPAG/TD/EXR with no success.
E. R. Constant

E. R.,
Mabey this will help,,,,

Just below the box that you add your comment in, find and click on the word Upload (underlined)
That will open another small window with a button called “Browse…”
Click on that Browse button, and find the folder with the picture that you want to upload. Click on the picture, (JPG’s Only) then click on “Open” and the location will appear in the box next to “Browse”
Click “Submit” and it should appear with your comments.
You will get a message that says
“Thank you, your file (FILE NAME.jpg) was successfully uploaded.”
Close the window
Then click “submit” to submit your mressage

If you get a message that the file is too large, use one of the many “Image Resizer Sites’ available on the internet to make your file smaller.
STEVE WINCZE

E.R.
Follow Steve's suggestion but make sure your picture file is less than 500kb. If it is larger find some program that can reduce the resolution.
Mort 1950 TD1851 Möbius

I didn't own a British car back in the 60s, so I can post no photos in them for the album. But with your good graces, this is me in 64 with Betsy, my 1944 Stearman. Only old pic I have of me. Different, but hope it's ok. PJ




P. Jennings

Thank you all for the "upload" advice. Here is the photo upload attempt again. Oh yes, 1950 TD2053, XPAG2436/TD/EXR.


E. R. Constant

E.R.
I am always interested in black TD's in this area. I sold one in 1968 when living in NYC and wondering what happened to it. I kept no records. Do you have history on yours?

Where are you in NJ? I am in Monroe Twp., Middlesex Co.
Mort
Mort 1950 TD1851 Möbius

Almost as cool as the Stearman are the Beech 18s and B25 in the background!
JE Carroll

Mort: TD2053, as I said in an earlier post I wasn't able to upload the photo - I bought her during a NY city newspaper strike, the advent of the newsprint "selling posts". The seller lived in Forest or Richmond Hill, it had a weak battery and no brakes. Sale price was $265 with a new white vinyl AMCO hood and 2-new Gold Seal tires with the brown craft wrapping paper still on but not mounted. The brake problem was that the sleeve had been left off of the new tube going to the flare into the master cylinder. The black seats and trim turned out to be sprayed black over the original green. The sump shows a savage repair having been made at some time in the past. The under side showed signs of red paint! Note the solid wheels.
E. R. Constant

Sorry -- no vintage pics of my TD, but here's my B as I found it in 1995...


Rob Edwards

OK! OK! You guys got me. I have finally relented.

The top pic is of me (foreground) and my best man. In fact were best 'men' for each other. Taken in June of 1953 (I was just 20).

We left the next day for Chicago in both TDs. That was a great TD - later supercharged it. But as for that 5.125 cwp .. the needle was forever pegged to the far right.

The bottom pic is my (present) TF and my Ferrari 275 GTB/4 regrettably sold in 1993 after owning it for 25 years.

Gord Clark
Rockburn, Qué.


Gordon A Clark

Almost as cool as the Stearman are the Beech 18s and B25 in the background!

I flew the 25, photo conversion and one of the 18s a few times. PJ
P. Jennings

"Almost as cool as the Stearman are the Beech 18s and B25 in the background!

I flew the 25, photo conversion and one of the 18s a few times. PJ"

As a young A&P Mechanic I worked on Twin Beeches, DC3s, Douglas A/B26s and even one B25, not to mention a whole lot of other stuff. That was before I broke the code that the guys flying them were making more money with cleaner hands! It was a smart career move but I'm still a mechanic at heart.
JE Carroll

Mort: I forgot to mention -- Edison Twp near Highland Park, same County as you.
E. R. Constant

Not an MG but looks like one on steroids. My father, oldest sister and me in our Riley c. 1956


James Neel TD28423

Getting to be a long, but interesting thread.
Here's one of my brother's TC (he had several in the late 50's, early 60's), with a mutual friend in it. About 1958, in W. Chatham, MA.


A W Parker

this is the day I bought Ralfie!


cj schmit

James Neel,

I love the Riley. I bet you liked it too.

Cheers, David
David Honness

This is just after we loaded the TF on the trailer up in Alabama to bring it home, around 8:00 at night. Marvin Gruber, who I bought the car from, is in the pic. 14 hr drive to get to his place, spent the night in a motel and 14 hrs back. Wonder why some people think were crazy? Doesn't everyone do things like this? (Grin). PJ


P. Jennings

Not very "old", by the standards set here, but Izzy's first day in my driveway. May 27, 2000.
Told the wife I bought as "an investment", got home about 4am. Next morning there was a note on the windscreen from my wife:(she had left for work)
"Welcome home little car...I'm sure you will be here for quite some time! (smilly face) You had better be here to take me for a ride when I get off.

(guy in the picture was a neighbor that was there when I woke up that morning)



David Sheward

E.R.,
Contact me via e-mail. Since we are so close we should meet and perhaps go for a drive together. There are quite a few local shows around here during the season.

Are you a member of the NJ MGT Register?
Mort
Mort 1950 TD1851 Möbius

My TF in 1958. Coming home from school. Didn't have a luggage rack so notice the clever way I fastened luggage to the front wing. Shortly after this picture I was on the road at about fifty-five MPH and the muffler melted through the flat plastic tape and the suitcase went flying, open up and spilled my stuff all over the highway. Very smart those collage boys. JL


James Lea

1978 ready to drive from McLean, Va to Croton-on-Hudson, NY. I had the car for 6 years at this point. Took two days to make the trip.


James Neel TD28423

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