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MG MGA - Having fun in your MGA

I thought I would start a thread asking for photos of owners having fun in their MGA (my contribution attached). You masochists in the Northern Hemisphere can also add photos of your cars buried knee deep in snow! Show us what you have got!
Mike

Mike Ellsmore

Here is some fun. Very period shot of my dads MGA 1600 at a race circuit in Victoria, Australia, in about 1964ish. I cannot remember the name of the circuit. I dont have any action shots of our current MGA.

DJ Lake

Here is another shot which shows the pit area.
Note the Holdens and Lotus's in the background.

DJ Lake

Not quite knee deep in snow.

This is a picture of two 6' high fences that I put up to keep my neighbours prying eyes away and complaints to a minimum. And, yes, there are 2 MGA parts cars still parked between the 2 fences. Guess I won't be getting any parts soon.

Derek Nicholson

OK, here's mine.

Cheers,
Christopher



Christopher Wilson

Here is a picture of us and our club on one of our runs thru the mountains above Salt Lake City. Way too much fun!

John

John Progess

Now there's my kind of question. Okay mike, you asked for it, you got it. See here:

http://mgaguru.com/tales/umlparty.htm
http://mgaguru.com/tales/ccfg0599.htm
http://mgaguru.com/pic89/logrd.htm
http://mgaguru.com/pic89/pikes.htm

More in the next message.
Barney Gaylord

Here's more:

http://mgaguru.com/pic89/tjmx.htm
http://mgaguru.com/pic89/indy9.htm
http://mgaguru.com/pic89/trmont.htm
http://mgaguru.com/mg11.htm
Barney Gaylord

And a movie file in two formats here:
http://mgaguru.com/mgtech/suspensn/fs101b.htm
Either 1MB or higher resolution 17MB, your choice.
Barney Gaylord

Brands
http://freespace.virgin.net/marka.hester/YD3801/YD3_801_Brands_Hatch.jpg

Silverstone
http://freespace.virgin.net/marka.hester/YD3801/YD3_801_Silverstone.jpg

Goodwood... Got some video, but too big for my web site.
http://freespace.virgin.net/marka.hester/YD3801/YD3_801_Goodwood05.JPG

Northam
http://freespace.virgin.net/marka.hester/YD3801/YD3_801_Northam_April_2007.jpg

All great fun...
Cheers
Mark.
Mark Hester

Returning home from the Maryhill hill climb. Mt. Hood in the distance.

Ed Bell

For me I will reword Mike's title to Having Fun With Your MGA. Of course I enjoy driving it as a daily driver to and from work. Equally I love the tinkering under the bonnet. So my piccy attached is slightly different to the others.

Steve

Steve Gyles

Driving my '58 off the trailer at the end of the Alaska Highway.

Ken

k v morton

Does this count as having fun in your MGA?

Mark J Michalak

Okay, okay, here's what you really mean: My favorite MGA picture. Missouri Endurance Rally 2005
Mark J Michalak

Whoops forgot the picture.

Mark J Michalak

Are we having fun yet? Here I am greasing up the trunions a few years back.

Actually, when I'm having fun in the MG, I'm not in the position to take pictures.

Steve, I like your car's color!

Chuck

C Schaefer

WhooHoo! Nothing better than ringing out The Pile!

Scott


k brown

My three kids, Pete 4, Tara 2, and Jane 3 in my 1600 only 37 years ago! Had just got it home, ready for a complete rebuild, when I took this photo. I now snap our Grandchildren in the same pose, in the same car, my daily driver. REAL fun in an MGA!
Barry

BM Gannon

OK, this is not a good picture, but it's a picture I took of my friend Darren and I driving one fine summer afternoon in the MG. I just held up the cell phone in my left hand and hit "capture". Notice the wind-blown hair (what's left of it). :-)


David Breneman

Great pics, all! Hey Barney, warn a guy next time when there's music in your link. I just got some really strange looks from my workmates! LOL!

I don't have any photos right now (I'm out of town) but see the latest Moss Motors MGA catalog cover for a photo of my wife having fun in her MGA. :)
Steve Simmons

Steve S, - If web browsing is not permitted at work, you get no sympathy from me. My best estimate is that at least half of all web browsing and e-mail activity IS done on company time, because my server stats show at least 50% reduction in activity on weekends and holidays. This is the same all year round, so I'm pretty sure it's not because we're driving or repairing cars on our time off.
Barney Gaylord

this wasn't fun!!

Nigel Munford

My friend Walter and I on a 2 day charity rally around southern Ontario last sept.
Kris

Kris Sorensen

Wow, I guess I hit a nerve Barney. It was not intended. Yes I was browsing the forum at work just as I'm doing now. I don't work a regular 9-5 job and right now, as yesterday around at the time of my post, I have nothing to do. Opening up a laptop is quite normal. It was the loud midi music that took me and my work mates by surprise, hence the funny looks. Had there been a warning, I would have double checked my volume level.

It's simply "netiquette" to use warnings for certain things like music, sounds or controversial content. No offense intended.

Nigel, that DOES look like fun! :)
Steve Simmons

Travelling through the Karoo in S Africa - a rather arid area that has wonderful cloud formations (and rainbows!)after the occasional thunder storm - during the "MGA African Adventure" in 2005 whilst celebrating MGA's 50th anniversary. Sadly not the clearest of pictures.

Joe Gates

Hey Nigel, that looks like tons of fun to me!
Mark J Michalak

Off to have fun at the races using that little seen variant, the MGA "Rollback"! Actually my first MGA, a '56, photo taken in about 1967.
Cheers,
Gerry
G T Foster

OK, MGA "Rollback, here it is...honest....
(photo was too big)
GTF

G T Foster

Not quite in an MG,but a 1984 picture of me removing parts from a special "racing" MG in a Wisconsin junk yard.Owner of the yard's quote not mine. HMK43 59778 may you rust in peace.

gary starr

I might look like I'm having fun, but I was actually experiencing a heart attack when this photo was taken. Talk about PAIN! Car has now gone and I reduced to a modern TF. (SOB!)

Tony Todd

Wow, some great pictures! Here is one from our epic journey to GT-32 in Whistler, British Columbia last summer in our '57 1500. 6,086 miles, and a lifetime of memories. This is on the Icefields Parkway between Jasper and Banff Alberta with Mt. Edith Cavell in the background.
MGs are the greatest!

Ralph

Ralph

Well, not an MGA but my MGB in the deep snow after a drive before they had a chance to salt the roads!

Ralph

Ralph

Hi - Not actually driving it - but at the destination after camping overnight with our club - taken last summer on the dry day we had. cheers Cam

Cam Cunningham

Me chasing down and MGB on our clubs Fall Colours run last October.


Andy Bounsall

The parade lap for MGAs at Silverstone 2005. That was fun!
David

David Marklew

Me and JRL off the line at last years sprint at Silverstone, it rained quite a bit that day, then again, I think it rained the whole summer.


Terry

Terry Drinkwater

I give up, Scott - what is the reference "...ringing out The Pile"? A damn fine photo of an aggresive MGA!
Mike
Mike Ellsmore

Hi Mike... "ringing out" is a term used by racers meaning, you are driving the car to its limit and literally on the knife edge of out of control. The secret is finding that edge and keeping just on the safe side to avoid getting cut! attached is another shot, same corner wheel still in the air. Turn 2 - Sears Point


k brown

Oops... "The Pile" is the nick name of my 1957 MGA.
k brown

Having fun before.
Lyle

Lyle Jacobson

This picture of my MGA climbing a mountain road (legendary Mulholland Highway) was taken by my buddy Steve Simmons (that annoyingly-loud-midi hating grump)... :) :) :) :)
Steve always takes great pictures and always offering helpful friendly advice for us local LBC owners.

Jim P

My daughters about to be loose on the world! The photo is called "Trouble a' Brewin".
Russ Carnes

Ok Ok the picture file was too fat.

Russ Carnes

Scott (K Brown),

Fantastic photograph! Who is the guy on the other side of the lens?

Neil
Neil McGurk

Thanks Scott (K Brown)
"Ringing out" has the same meaning down under - it was the "The Pile" that threw me - I had a quick look in Google and it turned up "The Pile - debris mound from the World Trade Centre" so it had me stumped.
Great photos - it looks far from a Pile of Junk!
Mike
Mike Ellsmore

Scott, Mike, my guess is that it stands for the ever growing pile of cash that the car represents! I saw that you (Scott) posted another fantastic picture on the springs thread!

Neil
Neil McGurk

This is not the most artistic image, but the smiles on their faces say they are having fun and enjoying themselves especially my son. This is my Dad and my son driving home from the Mt Cotton Hillclimb near the Gold Coast, Australia.

DJ Lake

I just wanted to say just because its winter that doesn't mean you can't drive your MG. It has a built in heater. This was last Sunday and I'm going to take the car out today to a club meeting. As long as the roads are salt fee I drive my cars.

Cheers,

David.......

David Honness

Does this count? Here is the next generation of MG drivers when my car was still "all original"

http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/3331/dsc05844dk2.jpg
Darian Henderson

Darian, yours looks like you started at about the same place I did (see picture).

David Breneman

Funny, I used to say mine started like...we'll like all the before pictures ahown above.

Now when somebody asks, I say it started just like you see it now. Then it was used, abused, neglected and left for dead. That's when I got it. Now it looks like it did when it started its life. If I can only get enough enjoyment out of it to warrant another total restore in 20 years.

Life is a big circle, isn't it?

Chuck
C Schaefer

Mike and Neil - You guys sure got that right. Most of you know what it takes to make a street A look nice. Now multiply that by 3, then you have a race car. When I first purchased this MGA it had been raced for nearly 20 years and was in a pretty sad state. I did all of the mechanics but left the body as is and at my first race, a fellow competitor (whom I just wupped) call it a "pile". So the name stuck. Now it is indeed a different kind of Pile.

k brown

Yeah David. It's amazing what decades of neglect will do to a classic.

But it's good to have the before pictures to see how far you've come...
Darian Henderson

Our next "fun" project: 'Barney' the ex racer. Found in a barn, hence the name (plus another Barney we all rely on from time to time). By the time it's done it probably will be our grandkids'. Fun, as in the fine line between working in the yard and playing in the yard. Great pictures all!
Granpa Fuzz

Russ Carnes

I was thrown by the "ringing out" phrase as well as the "pile." But it was just the spelling. Now I understand. I believe the spelling should be "wringing" as in wringing one's hands or "to squeeze, press, twist, or compress." (Webster.) "Ringing out" is what a bell does. (Of course, Chuck Berry wrote about playing a guitar "just like ringing a bell" and that man can also wring out a guitar!

Ken
k v morton

OK, couldn't resist a few non-snow pix. The next few posts will be photos taken on the way to...and in...Key West in April, '06. I need to figure out how you guys uploaded several pix in one go! Probably has to do with the file size. This one was taken right before we headed out onto the 7 Mile Bridge. The red '56 with the car-top carrier-trailer is my Penelope.

Frank Nocera

This one was taken as we got ready to participate in the Conch Republic Festival Parade. Way fun. And yep, that's the 100,000th next to Penelope.

Frank Nocera

Mostly MGAs on the 7 Mile Bridge.

Frank Nocera

OK, so in keeping with the "snow" theme of the thread...this was snapped as we started out on the 7 Mile Bridge. Somebody with the Florida Department of Transportation has a great sense of humor.

Frank Nocera

The MGAs on 7-mile bridge is definitely a fun photo! :) Where was it taken from?
Steve Simmons

The 7 Mile Bridge Photo was taken from a helicopter. The tour organizers hired a professional photographer. This event has become an annual MGA experience, and it's happening again in a few weeks. It is well worth the drive!
Frank Nocera

OK - here we are driving down to Le Mans for the 24-hour race - sticking to the back roads.

You can just see a tiny piece of our MGA.

Nick

Unscheduled road-side tech session during a club outing last summer. Maybe this would be more of a NOT having fun in your MG...at least for the owner.


Andy Bounsall

Fun on the dragon's tail


Chris Sloan

Beautiful car Chris, mine is quite similar, enjoy it.
Steve
Steve Meline

Chris, how did you do the cut windshield?
Steve, do you have any pix of your car?
GrandPaFuzz
Russ Carnes

Couldn't resist one more. This one from last weekends race at the HMSA - MGVR MG Historic Reunion at Laguna Seca. Love that Corkscrew! I'm the 41 car - The Pile

k brown

Hi Steve, thanks for the compliment.

Russ, I can't take credit for the windscreen, i bought it pre-fabbed. Here is another photo with a little better view.

Chris Sloan

Chris, where did you buy it? Nice car!
GrandPaFuzz
Russ Carnes

Near the summit of Wolf Creek Pass during a sudden rain storm. We were on the annual fall trip with the MGCC, Rocky Mountain Centre in September 1999. Our friends Larry and Kathy Hoy pulled along side and took the picture. The rest of the people in the group had enough sense to put up their tops. If you drive fast enough most of the water will go over the top.

Al


A. Wulf

Well, I saw one other MGB picture posted. So I figured why not. My wife and I were having way to much fun in our "Killer B" on the "Tail of the Dragon" during "MG 2006"
John

John Fraioli

hi guys

i thought at least someone would have saw fun in your MGA, have included sex in your MGA !!!!!

well it be a real challange ????

tim
t sullivan

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