1974 MGB and The Smell of Smoke

from Reid Cunningham: "These used to be so common, so it was a nice surprise to find this one in Bedford, NH. The collector market has shot up during the pandemic, but these remain relatively cheap. I suspect many people who would have picked up an old MGB are driving a Miata instead. My dad had a 1980, the last year sold in the USA, while I was in college in the late 80's. It made his previous Fiat seem reliable. A couple times a month something broke, my favorite failure was when the exhaust manifold split. How do you manufacture a hunk of cast iron so poorly it fails? All that said, my dad loved his and I thought it was a fun car when he let me borrow it."

AL: here's a 1968 MGB we caught in Portland, Maine. And Bruce Willard's MG poem. And an MGB-GT we found on a cold day in Holland. Then there's the "white sports car" referenced in this Peter Behrens short story, The Smell of Smoke, which was, in fact, a 1964 MGB.