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Back to the motherland

The practice of scouring the US car market for suitable T cars to bring to the UK, from air cooled Volkswagens to Detroit leviathans, has been going on for decades. There are companies geared up to help in such a quest. The USA lapped up new MGs so finding a good example to bring back to the UK can’t be that hard. If you are looking for something very solid, be sure to source one from a US state that sees little in the way of precipitation.

One such find is this 1978 MGB, which was imported back to the UK in October 1990 but still retains some of its US-market specification. It does seem quite an unusual step having to pay import duty and shipping fees just to get an MGB as it was a relatively inexpensive car in 1990. A sales sheet from 1992 reveals it had a

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