TheBanyanTree: Early Summer wonderings

[Jena Norton]

In high school, one of our crowd had an MGTD and my boyfriend eventually got
an Austin Healey Mark 100 (the last series before the 3000). I wanted a
sports car so badly, but knew you had to know how to fix them as they
required some mechanical expertise. The boyfriend bought a GTO and was
planning to give me the Healey, but I chose that day to become excessively
pissed at him, so he got a couple of hundred dollars for it from the dealer.
I always tried very hard to get to drive all the muscle cars and sports cars
I came across.

Jena Norton

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[mailto:thebanyantree-bounces at lists.remsset.com] On Behalf Of Roger Pye
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Subject: Re: TheBanyanTree: Early Summer wonderings

Obviously thought you were pretty quick yourself and needed something to 
match. The MGA was a high powered sports car produced by British Motor 
Corporation from 1955 to 1962 so yours must be older than you imply. 
'High powered' for the period, that is. It was then replaced by the MGB, 
the production run of which continued until 1980. By then BMC had become 
British Leyland.

My first car which I bought in 1961 in the Middle East (Aden, then a 
British colony now part of South Yemen) was an Austin Healey Sprite Mk 
II. The 'bugeye' sprite was Mk I. The Mk II was manufactured by BMC in 
the same factory as the MGA then MGB. Looking back it was a lovely car 
to handle and speedy enough for me, or so I thought being a mere slip of 
a lad of 21 years. I was in the RAF then, just married to she who is the 
mother of my children and when we went back to England in 1963 it was 
with our very recently born eldest son. We discovered very rapidly that 
a two-seater sports car does not fit two adults and a growing child and 
so I waved goodbye to fast cars and traded the Sprite in on a secondhand 
Wolseley 1500 four-seater sedan with walnut fascia, leather seats and 
other modcons. Sheer luxury!

roger

NancyIee at aol.com wrote:
>  
> In a message dated 6/6/2010 2:04:31 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
> paul at remsset.com writes:
> 
> MGA as  in something by Mitsubishi?
> 
> Thanks for the reminder about bird cage  paper.  The canary's cage is 
> looking like a  mess.
> 
> 
> 
> MGA 1979 was the last year of production. The MGA was a small, fast, fast,

> two-seater, open, fast,  sportscar, made, I believe in England
>  
> Re: birds. be thankful you don't have a BIG Cockatoo with BIG droppings,  
> who cleans his own cage (throwing the BIG out against the wall, making a 
> birdy  stucco.)
>