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Thought I would share some photos I took this weekend at the Sonoma County Car Show. http://www.boompa.com/wineclassic/

Cool Terry, can you post a pic of it here in this thread? I never got my MGB GT going well enought that I would want to take for a distance. Currently I live in Oakland CA, and I dont have a garage, but my wife and I are expecting, and plan on moving pretty soon... somewhere with a garage and some space. I think I will be getting into another british car as soon as I make the move. I was at the Sonoma County Vintage car show yesterday... full of old brit cars... man it drove me nuts to not have an mg or a lotus! And the exhaust fumes smelled soooo good!

I cant get that link to the photos to work?

Wow that is really nice. You should post the pics of the restoration when you start.

I had an MGB GT back in college that I rebuilt the engine on and lots of other work. When I got that car for free from my uncle at the time. But I also had my eye on Triumphs. I always felt that the Triumphs were sportier than MGs (my perception) but that there were just less of them on the road so they didnt get as noticed.

Hehe, totally true. I found that in France the were the MOST rude to me and acted like they were gonna run me off the road, and I was in the slow lane. Prolly the UK plates on the car made them mad.

Hi, I'm trying to figure out what model this is? http://www.boompa.com/talk/name-this-model-pics-of-an-old-benz/609/&c=1 some more pics... http://www.boompa.com/dave/random-blue-benz/190/pictures/1263/

Here's another MG I once had. This is an MG Metro and I owned it when I lived in England in 1997. I drove this car through england, wales, scotland, france, switzerland, lichetnstien, czech (prague), germany, amsterdam and belgium. It was alot more 'modern' and actually kept us dry in the rain (hehe) than the MGB GT I once had. But it was terrorfyingly slooooow on the highway -- particularly in Germany. http://www.boompa.com/ethan/british-betty/91/pictures/797/ I worked lots of odd jobs, for 2 months I delivered for Pizza Hut in Eastliegh (in southhampton) UK. Pretty fun.

You guys are good. I've been doing research on cars for my new web site. Acually got in email contact with Roger Allard and he supplied us with some pics and info: More pics here...http://www.boompa.com/allard/j2x/120/

Cool Terry: If you can, could you post the pics of your MG restoration to my new web site? www.boompa.com You can upload as many pictures as you like.

Ha, It wasn't that bad of a car! But I was a kid and it was first real fixxer upper so I never really got it going well. It always smelled like exauhst, and I could not drive it 20 miles without having to get under the hood to tune the carbs. I come from a long line of car enthusiasts though. My dad has a Lotus Elan 1968 and my uncle has a racing Lotus Elan (I will look for pics). My Grandfather, who we grandchildren called "Boompa" (thus the name) started it all. I think he had about 30 really cool cars over the years. I am trying to get my family to send in all the photos of his cars... but so far these are the pics I have.... http://boompa.com/boompa/ MG TC: Lotus Elite:

Ok cool, Here is what I am currently driving: http://www.boompa.com/ethan/silver-slicer/64/pictures/653/ Overlooking the Golden Gate bridge:

Something about these pictures really make me miss the east coast. I live in California now, but grew up in upstate NY. Love the old gas station.

I don't have this MGBGT anymore, but I'd like to add it here. (It was killed in a hit and run, years back) You can read about it here http://www.boompa.com/ethan/hit-and-run-mgb-gt/69/ Here it is when I trailored it from Mass to Chicago. I'd like to add my current car, but its new and not an antique. Maybe I can do that below this post.