Regular readers may remember we bought you R John Langford’s ‘other’ Magnette in MGE January 2021 issue; a pristine and much-buffed white MkIV Magnette, with its distinctive Battista 'Pinin' Farina styling. Amongst classic car owners there are those, including myself, who get the urge to own more. Why do we do it to ourselves, I often ask myself, incurring an ever-increasing list of maintenance jobs to do?
John admits that, in part, it was the chase but also a chance to own another ADO38 which is closer to original than his white Magnette, which had been completely restored.
He knew the previous owner, John Horton, for around six years, through the Cambridge-Oxford Owners’ Club, as he explains: “I had my other Magnette, ‘Ava’, and had put an advert in our club magazine, looking for some spare parts. John contacted me so I went down to his
