Octagon Spirit
May 29, 2019
4 minutes
BY MARK J. McCOURT
PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY OF THE HEMMINGS ARCHIVES
It’s not a stretch to claim that, alongside Porsche and Ferrari, MG is the most popular sports car brand of all time. The MG Car Company built sports cars from well before its formal registration on July 29, 1930, through its demise in October 1980 — and under new ownership, again in the 1990s-2000s — and those cars sold at such reasonable cost to enthusiasts around the world, that they are still very much loved today. While Americans are most familiar with the MG Ts, As, and Bs imported after World War II, prewar models were no strangers to our soil, with the first new MG to cross the Atlantic
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