MG Enthusiast

One in, one out…

As regular readers will probably have worked out, I suffer from a compulsive car buying disorder. So, when I was offered a really smart TF 135 locally, and at a ridiculously tempting price, there really was only one possible outcome.

With two MG TF 135s already in my collection, a third would have been pushing it, though, and with my trusty silver TF, AJ, currently out of action because the Feb 2024) I had in my possession a mechanically brilliant but bodily scruffy Anthracite example that was a lot of fun to drive, but not much cop to look at.

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