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RE: Memories of Westminster MG Museum...

To: <MGMagnette@aol.com>, <mgs@autox.team.net>
Subject: RE: Memories of Westminster MG Museum...
From: "j r overcash" <jroverca@earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 19:43:30 -0400
So do I, had no idea that it was being sold off...

Safety Fast
Ross Overcash,74B,NAMGBR 2-1172
Ayer, MA
http://home.earthlink.net/~jroverca/index.html

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-mgs@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-mgs@autox.team.net]On
> Behalf Of MGMagnette@aol.com
> Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 12:08 AM
> To: mgs@autox.team.net
> Subject: Memories of Westminster MG Museum...
>
>
>    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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