The Monthly Club Meeting is held on the third Monday of each month (except no meeting in December). The meetings are from 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. at MACK’S GOLDEN PHEASANT in Elmhurst

		It was early September 1971. I was a History student at Loyola College in Montreal, Quebec. I had bought this 1956 MGA several months earlier for $250 from a classmate. A few dents and some bondo, but BRG with a magnificent Moto Lita type wheel engraved with Stirling Moss’s signature. This photo was taken shortly after a successful brake-bleed (ergo the grin). A “new” $10 junkyard rear bumper was installed a couple of hours later. I’d started seeing a lovely young woman about this time, Allyson, who enjoyed the car as much as I did as we explored the winding, hilly roads of the Laurentian Mountains north of Montreal. Allyson never minded that we had to push-start the car as often as not, or that it took in water from almost everywhere when it rained. All of that paled in comparison to the fun of cruising the hills on those warm, sunny, fall days. Memories of the girl and the car are inexorably connected. Eventually, I had to sell the car to help pay tuition, and though my current MGB is civilized, reliable (well…you know) and even luxurious in comparison, I’ll always harbor a fondness for the noble MGA, and a wee cruise down MGA memory lane. -- Joel-Paul Brossard