Antique & Classic Cars Blog

Top-secret technology hidden in ancient catacombs a mile below the paper’s downtown offices tracks hits on its blog websites. From this revolutionary tech (widely available and not secretive) we know lots of people pass by here—and many of you have neat cars.

Tom P., our neighbor to the north in Ottawa, read the story of this blogger’s acquiring a 1969 MGB GT from Marietta, Georgia. He has accepted our longstanding offer to show readers’ cars and share your stories with fellow blog visitors.

The original owner of this B bought it for $2995 in 1969—Tom has that receipt. As often happens, that owner and his wife had a child and wanted a bigger car. Tom is enthusiastic enough about the car that he phoned the original owner’s home. The first owner is now 83 and his wife, who answered the phone, said he would be glad to hear the car was still driven and appreciated.

It went to a colleague of Tom’s in ’71 for $1800 and shortly, as also often happens, ended up in storage. When the colleague retired, he woke the MG from its 25-plus-year slumber, put it back on the road and then bought a ’64 Mark II Jaguar. The B GT became surplus to need and space and Tom picked it up with only 41,500 miles on the clock—now about 42,700.

Great looking car. Thanks to Tom for sharing it (and to its previous owners for keeping this little gem safe and sound for so many years).

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