It's also my sons birthday, he'll be 13, maybe this is why he has such a
passion for MG's already...
Ross Overcash,74B,NAMGBR 1172
Ayer, MA
http://www.tiac.net/users/jroverca/index.htm
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-mgs@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-mgs@autox.team.net]On
Behalf Of KGROWLER@aol.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 1999 5:35 PM
To: mgs@autox.team.net
Subject: July 15
It was five years ago on July 15, 1994 that we lost John Thornley.
The post war MG cars so many of us are wrapped up in - the MGA, the MGB,
especially the MGB GT, the modern Midget, and the MGC all owe their
existance
to John's tenure as Managing Director of the MG Car Company from 1952 to his
retirement 30 years ago in 1969. He was the founding Secretary of the MG Car
Club and was still serving as the Car Club's President at his death. It was
appropriate in every way that he was known as "Mr. MG".
Please take the time to raise a glass of Guiness or its visual twin, a can
of
Castrol 20/50 to John's memory - or better still, go out and find a nice
twisty road in your MG.
Kim Tonry
Downers Grove, Illinois USA
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