So, after just a short time it was decided that the car was ready to sell. Dean buffed the car to a new shine, Bob Ligmanowsi used steel wool to scrub the chrome trim to a mirror like finish. Bill, Bill and Paul cleaned up the interior to a good as it’s going to get state and the car was ready for market.

Dean advertised the car on all the social platforms and the calls started coming in. Dean had the usual number of tire kickers calling but after a short time we three seriously interested buyers. One was in Kentucky which would have required shipping at a cost of $500. This likely would have put the car out of the buyer’s price range, which would have required us lower the price. Then two local guys were scheduled on a Saturday to come and look at the car. One appointment for 1:30 and one for 4.

The 1:30 buyer was Greg. Greg had owned an MGB, same color make and model seventeen years earlier. At the time he and his wife were starting a family so the car had to go. Fast forward to now. Greg’s neighbor was selling a motorcycle and Greg had mentioned to his wife that he was thinking about buying it, and she suggested he buy a car like the one he had sold years earlier. Greg immediately began his search. When talking to him at my garage he said he had looked at the ads for every MG for sale within a few hundred miles. Luckily, this one was not only local, it was exactly what he was looking for and was in his price range.

Greg took the car for a test drive. While he was testing out the car we were talking to his wife, we told her about the club and the support and information he’d be able to get simply by joining the Chicagoland MG Club. Well, test drive passed and Greg bought the car. On a Sunday Dean and Bill K. met me at my garage and we loaded up the car to deliver it to its new owner in Huntley Il. Greg works on Sunday’s at Crystal Lake Brewery in Crystal lake, so he wasn’t home when we dropped it off. Paul Pickley had met me to help me unload. After talking to Greg’s wife, Paul and I decided to drop In on Greg at the brewery and have a beer before the ride home.

We met Greg and by this time he already knew the car had been delivered. Drinks were on him! Paul and I sampled a few of the beers that they brew, enjoyed some snacks and talked MG’s with Greg. One of the things that Greg told us was that on his ride home his wife seemed really excited about the support that the club can offer to MG owners. While talking to Greg he told us the Brewery at one time had been an auto repair shop, in fact, one of the walls in the back room still had remnants of a painted MG logo on the wall. For me, seeing that logo was a sign, that this car and this buyer were meant to be together.

~~ Tom Raddatz