MG Enthusiast

The active little pensioner

Graham’s first car was an MG TA, which he used whilst he was a graduate trainee at Jaguar Cars. He started writing about cars in 1961, joined Autocar magazine in 1965, became an independent automotive historian in 1972 and has since sampled every type of MG, ancient and modern. He has also published more than 160 books and countless magazine articles.

Not long ago, I was leafing back through my records and discovered that it is now 70 years since Leonard Lord finally agreed the specification of

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