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MG MGA - 'Shredding' the UK value of our cars?
| I have just seen a terrible advert on UK TV. It's for the children's cereal "Shreddies" and features a red MGA driven by 50's film star "cad" Leslie ( I say ding-dong) Philips . OK own up who let their car be used in this awful ad?!! |
| Cam Cunningham |
| Children's cereal? Shreddies? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2DT63DxGVs |
| Geoff Everitt |
| It's got a mirror on its door as recently described by Dominic, so it must be his car!!!! Steve |
| Steve Gyles |
| well at least they got the colour right! |
| Vin Rafter |
| There's a tell tell give-away sign. The wipers park on passenger side. We should find it in the ranks at MGA day |
| Graham M V |
| Does the wiper parking side suggest conversion from LHD? I've got the same Talbot mirror myself, but I'm a Weetabix man. |
| Ken Korey |
| Well done Geoff for finding it on youtube |
| Cam Cunningham |
| Good point Ken. According to Clausager (which I have just bought thanks to the reprint), both rhd & lhd park their wipers to the relevant drivers side. So we are looking for a converted import in red, with Talbot mirror. Graham (Frosted Wheats) |
| Graham M V |
| Hi for once I'm glad I haven't got my red one anymore lol Gordon |
| g c pugh |
| Ding dong! (not me!) |
| Neil McGurk |
| I wish it was me. They probably paid a fortune. |
| Nigel Munford |
| He is famous for saying "Ding - Dong"? |
| AJ Mail |
| Hi , I think that Leslie Phillips used an MGA in one of his early films but I wouldn't know which one I just remember seeing still shot of him and a late MGA, as an aside the early morning DJ Chis Evans was talking about his cars and said that he had a 1956 MGA that he paid £9500 for I don't suppose still has it having moved on to Ferraris' Gordon |
| g c pugh |
| AJ Yes, ding-dong is synonymous with him. Steve |
| Steve Gyles |
| Gentlemen check out the posting 'Nice Pics - Not all bad news' further down on this page and note the 'chick magnet' theme toward the end. It may explain some things. :) John |
| j mcmaster |
| For your info: Leslie Philips drove a mk2 MGA in a film called The Fast Lady. The lady in question was a Bentley: 1926??. Film also starred Stanley Baxter, Julie Christie and James Robertson-Justice. A little gem! Matthew 
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| M S Randell |
| Come on chaps, don't we love it because it's a bit of a cad's car? And don't try to convince me that you haven't all got a flat cap and string-backed driving gloves tucked away somewhere! That's what MG drivers look like isn't it? (except Gonzalo, of course, who is clearly a modern young man with exceptionally good taste in cars). What amazes me is how Leslie Phillips manages to keep going at his age and trots out his "ding dong" character for anyone that can write a big enough cheque. Rivalled only by Sir Stirling who will don the white peaked helmet for a personal appearance and drive anything, anywhere even after breaking both his legs down a lift shaft! Malcolm |
| Malcolm Eades |
| Malcolm, I will take your comment as a compliment...but I must say that I did consider a some point buying the leather gloves. In the end it didn't see the point. The flap-cap would look silly cruising down Miami Beach. |
| Gonzalo Ramos |
| Hi a little bit of MGA at about 2mins 10 secs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j846NGD0Vg Gordon |
| g c pugh |
| Nice one Gordon, but I was hoping that young Leslie Philips would say "ding dong" somewhere in that piece! |
| Lindsay Sampford |
| The red MGA has appeared quite often in Lesley Phillips films. This is a poster of one of his films. It has the registration showing. Steve 
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| Steve Gyles |
| Doesn't show up on the DVLA data base so it's either dead, had a number change, been exported or has been off the road for a long time. |
| Lindsay Sampford |
| Hi the Bentley in the film was sold recently for £550,000 Gordon |
| g c pugh |
| Hi, having recently seen the whole film again the MGA features quite a lot in it, the film was made in 1962 which means that the MGA would have have been almost new or in fact a new car at that time I think it was YBL988 a Mk 2, at one point it is shown towing the Bentley Gordon |
| g c pugh |
| Gordon I did not want to start another thread. Thought you might like this MGA: http://is.gd/e4xL3 Steve |
| Steve Gyles |
| Steve, Thank heavens that Syd Enever wasnt influenced by a car that looked like this and that he saw George Phillips MG TD special before he designed the MGA! If that was how an "MGA" looked I would bet they would be much rarer or more likely, extinct! Colyn |
| Colyn Firth |
| Hi Steve, that is almost physically painful lol Gordon |
| g c pugh |
| OMG - That's horrible Steve |
| Cam Cunningham |
| I almost threw up in my breakfast! Barry |
| Barry Gannon |
| Wow, bad taste and bad workmanship in one car!! Unbeleivably bad bodywork, maybe it is GRP (Fiberglass)? To echo Colyn , if the MGA was this bad there would very few people on this BBS? Neil |
| Neil Purves |
| Gordon, Where did you see the film recently, on UK TV? |
| Nigel Munford |
| Hi Nigel not on TV I happen to have it on DVD I think the kids got it for me for birthday or xmas but I hadn't got round to watching it until I relised that there was an MGA in it gordon |
| g c pugh |
| I saw it on TV in the last few days. Not sure which channel; might have been 'Dave'. Steve |
| Steve Gyles |
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