“CAN YOU HELP my Mum? We need to get Dad’s old MG out of the garage – it’s in the way. It wasn’t driven for at least ten years before he died,” said a friend, a few months ago. “It doesn’t start, the tyres are flat, it’s covered in crap and starting to be really annoying …”
I soon learned that the mustard 1970 MG-B Mk2 with overdrive was bought new in the UK, driven around Europe, then shipped to Australia and used as a daily driver for nearly 40else in the family ever liked it, and there was zero interest in its fate.
