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Memories of Westminster MG Museum...

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Subject: Memories of Westminster MG Museum...
From: MGMagnette@aol.com
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 00:07:37 EDT
   The last ride of the season was always from Manchester NH to Westminster 
Vermont.  Route 101 between those two towns hasn't been ruined like 101 
between Manchester and Hampton Beach...   The road rises and falls with the 
mountains.  Tight two lane tree covered roads open up into vistas of the New 
Hampshire Mountains.  The ride was always in October...   The air at  7am was 
crisp and wet as we buzzed through Peterborough and Dublin NH past the giant 
stone arch bridge, or the multicolored autumn mountains.  Our destination was 
always the same:  The Westminster MG Museum Fall Fraternity Tour Car Show.  
On the damp lawns of the Museum, freshly mowed, hundreds of Ts A's B's TR's 
and AH's.  The local Rotary Club is selling coffee, apple pie with cheddar (a 
Vermont thing, don't ask!) and grilling hamburgers by 10am.  The Jazz band 
strikes up and plays as we go into that barn...
   Above in the rafters, an MGB Billboard of a green convertible superimposed 
over a sepia toned MG TC driver.  Before you, more of every make and model of 
MG probably ever gathered outside the UK.  Massive MG touring cars, with 
swiveling vents in the bonnet sides, like the SA.   Rare Custom MGs, like an 
Arnolt Coupe,and a Lester MG.  MG M-type and J-type midgets...  hillclimb 
specials...  a PB Airline Coupe.  Vintage Sales signs.  Dozens of MGs, the 
rarest of the rare, squeezed into this little barn, and just dusted off for 
this day.  
   I wish I had gone last year.  
         -John

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