Many people suddenly and unexpectedly found themselves with a good amount of free time on their hands in the spring of 2020. Some channeled their energy into watching movies on the couch; other, more goal-oriented shut-ins tackled creative projects. The fully renovated, near-daily-driven MG on these pages benefitted immeasurably from the concentrated attention its handy owner paid it in those extraordinary days, and we readers and fellow road-users get to enjoy the result.
Two-seat sports cars from Abingdon, England, have been a part of Ken Blaisdell’s life from the time he was a teenager in the late 1960s. “When I graduated high school, my dad bought me a 1960 MGA,” the Gilbert, Arizona, resident tells us. “It needed a clutch, so the first thing I had to do was pull the engine and install one; that started my career of working on MGs. I had another MGA and an MGB in the 1970s, and I loved their sports car feel even though most of my friends were into muscle cars. I always liked the classic lines of the TD, but never came across one I could afford on a high school kid’s budget.”
It wasn’t until the autumn of 2019 that Ken found his long-sought TD; it was local
