19-02-2019, 09:59 AM
Like Parazine, I also have an MGF. Mine is a 1996 built Mark 1 registered early 97 in pretty clean and decent order, and rumour has it that early ones are starting to appreciate. Later MGFs and TFs suffered from corner cutting by MG Rover as it headed towards its crash, but even so, the MGF with it's hydragas suspension is a nice car to drive despite its 22 years. I've had the spheres regassed and have just recently replaced the soft top with a new cover. It has a glass rear screen with HRW to replace the perspex original but apart from that it's pretty original. Not the easiest of things to work on, but apart from the head gasket problem (mine has been sorted) they are pretty well nigh bomb proof. The vagaries of the UK winters has seen off a lot of them to the great garage in the sky so well kept ones are becoming rarer by the day.
Nice to have something that came from the same factory as the Austin 7, albeit some 63 years later!
Nice to have something that came from the same factory as the Austin 7, albeit some 63 years later!