(Karel’s postcard is a MGBGT V8 this month. I went through my box of greeting cards two times, but couldn’t find one with a V8 on it. But here is one with a MGBGT. Apart from the little V8 badges on the grill and tail gate and the unique wheels they were identical from the outside.
This card is from Classic Motor Cars by Malcolm Bradburn. It was sent to me in 1995 by a late friend, and fellow MG model car collector, Rob to tell me that Corgi in England announced that they were coming out with a 1:18 scale MGB model.
This postcard is from St. Ives, Huntingdon, a small town just North of Cambridge. Parked in front of a building with a Leyland sign a two ‘petrol’ pumps are a white MGBGT V8 with license plate NMW888M. Behind the MG is a Triumph Dolomite. And behind that is an ADO16, which is the group name for the Austin, Morris, Wolseley, MG, Riley, and maybe I am even forgetting one, variations of what was known as the Austin America and MG 1100/1300 here in the USA
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June 2020
