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Travels with my father

“HE PURCHASED THIS LOVELY MGA IN 1963 FROM THE EMINENT AND FAMOUS COMMERCIAL ARTIST RENATO FRATINI…”

The universe can throw up all kinds of challenges for us mere mortals. Not only do we have to strive to be the best we can be, in an ever more challenging world, but recently we have all endured the rigours of a world pandemic. We all have to live on through the heartache of whatever the world has to throw at us but there are stories that uplift and prove to us all that the universe can indeed do the right thing. This one starts with one man and his MGA.

Rob Davis loved life, motor racing and his MGs. He purchased this lovely MGA in 1963 from the eminent and famous Commercial Artist Renato Fratini; a chap worth looking up online as he painted many iconic movie posters of the ’60s, including From  . Once it was in Rob’s hands it wasn’t long before the car was pressed into service on the race track, at a time when all you needed to race was a car, tape for the headlights

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