Re: MG TF Question.
Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2019 9:37 am
Is it a Kwik-fit fitter, maybe it's someone who's just been run over? No, it's Tailpipe Man! No links 'cos his "niche" car-related hobby is NSFW or anywhere else for that matter, but we all remember Tailpipe Man, don't we?
And if you haven't heard of him, FGS use Duckduckgo to search as visual media relating to TPM has a habit of breaking Google.
But on MGTFs, the modern kind that's essentially a less practical member of the Rover Metro range; there's some bloke around the south east who has one of those and drives like a buffoon. He's 70 if he's a day and he's just fitted a noisy exhaust and had the car repainted from that dark metallic bottle green that (IMHO) looks pretty good on MGFs & TFs, to a horrid shade of Barry turquoise. Clever thing about the paint job is that the gifted artisan who did the work has left a very consistent stripe of original green around the screenas a tribute to MG's fine tradition of using colours that actually look good. Also around the screen are some clever, three dimensional special effects to give the impression - to the casual onlooker - that the A posts are blistering through and about to break out in a nasty case of rustyitis. The guy has also reintroduced the seventies / early eighties concept of the sunstrip with names on. Remember those eh? "Gary & Shaz", "Baz & 'Chelle," etc. Well this one says, I kid you not..
"Us 2 & the bairns." The irony of this legend being displayed on a car with two seats had me rofling to the point of needing to go to the lavatory.
But all of this makes me happy and how? Well, if folk will do this to Fs, sure & they'll start on Bs soon, seeing as they're so much less fragile and so much more freely available than those mid-engined machines.
Could shell suits and big "rimz" be about to replace elbow patches, flat caps and chromed wires at the MG shows? Oh please, bring it on.
And if you haven't heard of him, FGS use Duckduckgo to search as visual media relating to TPM has a habit of breaking Google.
But on MGTFs, the modern kind that's essentially a less practical member of the Rover Metro range; there's some bloke around the south east who has one of those and drives like a buffoon. He's 70 if he's a day and he's just fitted a noisy exhaust and had the car repainted from that dark metallic bottle green that (IMHO) looks pretty good on MGFs & TFs, to a horrid shade of Barry turquoise. Clever thing about the paint job is that the gifted artisan who did the work has left a very consistent stripe of original green around the screenas a tribute to MG's fine tradition of using colours that actually look good. Also around the screen are some clever, three dimensional special effects to give the impression - to the casual onlooker - that the A posts are blistering through and about to break out in a nasty case of rustyitis. The guy has also reintroduced the seventies / early eighties concept of the sunstrip with names on. Remember those eh? "Gary & Shaz", "Baz & 'Chelle," etc. Well this one says, I kid you not..
"Us 2 & the bairns." The irony of this legend being displayed on a car with two seats had me rofling to the point of needing to go to the lavatory.
But all of this makes me happy and how? Well, if folk will do this to Fs, sure & they'll start on Bs soon, seeing as they're so much less fragile and so much more freely available than those mid-engined machines.
Could shell suits and big "rimz" be about to replace elbow patches, flat caps and chromed wires at the MG shows? Oh please, bring it on.