In today's newspaper column, Tom and Ray Magliozzi, (Click and Clack Talk Cars)
respond to a question from a 25-year-old graduate student who is interested in
purchasing an older two-door convertible car that is fun to drive, reliable and
relatively inexpensive to maintain/repair. The student states that he really
likes MGs but he read somewhere that they need frequent maintenance.
Ray's response was that his brother has an old MG. He can attest to the fact
that it never requires any maintenance - only emergency repairs. He's too busy
rebuilding the engine, retrieving wheels that have fallen off and putting out
stubborn engine fires to worry about maintenance.
Tom chimes in with a recommendation that if the MG is the type of car he is
looking for - a small, two-seat British sports car - then he should set his
sights on a Mazda Miata. "That basically does everything a classic British
sports car was supposed to do, except leak oil".
(The Other) Len
Vacaville, CA
1967 3000 MKIII HBJ8L39031
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