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I WONDER WHO actually know most about cars? My self? The Formula 1 legend John Surtees? Or perhaps motoring journalist Peter Aaboe, who writes to the sporty website?
Well, First of all I my self is a motoring journalist, secondly I am the owner of a 1967 MGB GT in the colour Old English White with red leather seats and electric overdrive from good ol´ Laycock de Normanville. Lovely car.
A true sports car. I think.
BUT I DO remember last Christmas. That was the very day I was disturbed by critics of my MG´s sporty capacity. The-above-mentioned Mr. Peter Aaboe intruded into my house and almost without saying Hello he pointed at me with his finger and said something like:
”Very well, Claus, it’s a nice car, your MG, but you must realize it is NOT a sports car!”
And then he started to tell about some kind of Lancia Stratos, he might have drivin years ago. I allowed him to stay – but I haven’t forgot the very evening.
LATER MY MGB has rehabilitated its good name. Not that I think this fine British sports car needs this. A total sale of more than half a million MGB roadsters and GT tell the truth about the car.
But the legendary John Surtess wrote about the MGB in his search for ”Britain’s Best Sports Cars” in the November issue of Classic & Sportscar:
“It is very much a basic car, that you could use to go touring, but, at the same time, it's got that sporting instinct if you start pushing a bit, which is a nice combination”.
Besides Big John used nice words as “pleasing style”, “evergreen”, “very driveable”, “reacts well”, “quite forgiving”, “extremely willing” and – after the track test with Surtees going faster than a Jaguar E-type – “it will go through the chicanes here as quick as anything...”
And that was m own feeling about my MGB GT.
AND I COULD add, the car is cheap and easy to repair – it is always good to exaggerate, but let me stress: You can drive the car all year round (mostly), my wife likes it, my six year old son like to be the back seat driver and it is the obvious car for historical rallies. And it is the classic I can afford at the moment. And to tell you the truth – I doubt the joy of owning the car will raise with the investment, if I bought a concourse Jaguar E-type to the six double of the price
Journalist Claus Worup, MGB GT-owner, Denmark.
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