CROMWELL OR BUST! 2000KM IN 10 PRE-WAR MGS

There is something special about using your classic car in a way its original designers and manufacturers intended – for transport and pleasure. My first car, a Morris Minor Low Light Tourer, has long been considered a classic, but when I owned it, transport was its main role with a bit of back seat pleasure a secondary benefit. Subsequent cars, mostly MGs and all now classics, continued the role of transport with the pleasure component moving from back seat antics into the realm of pride of ownership.

And so it is today. My daily driver is almost 20 years old, a faithful 2005 MG ZT260, and my classic is a pre-war 1937 MG Two Litre. Through the prewar MG community, a global network of friends has evolved over many years, none more so than with one of the heroes of the MG world, Gary Wall on the north island of New Zealand.

Over the past 20 years, Gary has acquired, restored or created a batch of pre-WW2 MGs that he lovingly maintains himself on his farm outside Martinborough on the southern end of the north island. But as well as lovingly maintaining them, Gary generously lends his cars to MG friends from around the world