Perfect!
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From: Phil Vanner <pvanner@pclink.com>
To: 'mgs@autox.team.net'
Subject: RE: why MG?
Date: Tuesday, December 02, 1997 4:48 PM
Why an MG? Because I always wanted one, and it's one of those rare things
where the having lives up to the wanting.
I wanted an MG because nothing else would do. It's not about the 'safe' or
'practical' thing to do, it's about dreams. It has something to do with an
image I had of the heroes of the Battle of Britain; I always pictured MG
Midgets parked by their airfields. It is about green hedges and country
roads; an escape from everyday reality to a romantic unreality that never
existed anywhere else outside of my heart. It's because everything looks
better through the windscreen.
It's for the quick, light steering, and the simplicity. It's because of
the sudden elation I feel after taking a corner a little too fast and
getting away with it . It's because I like the way my face hurts from
grinning after a spirited drive, and because I like the satisfaction that
comes from knowing that I keep it running myself.
It's kind of like, if you ask a New Yorker why they would put up with that
impossible city; because it's worth it, because it's like nothing else. If
you have to ask...
It's a common man's "something special" in an otherwise ordinary world.
Phil Vanner
'61 Midget ($2300 and usually in the passing lane)
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