You know you're cool when…

[Vicenç Feliú]

… the guy in the black Maserati Quattroporte pullsover to talk to you about your MGTDr.  XD

Happened to me last night at the local Wawa.

Vicenç - (bee sense)
Pembroke Pines, FL
1986 Aston - BCW Model 52 - "Montse II"

(1983 FiberFab MiGi II - "Montse")

[scubasteve]

I’ve always said I’ve had more Corvette drivers wave at me than they seem to wave at anyone else 😎 . Sometime I get so caught up between steering, shifting and waving, I wish I had three hands 😯 !

Amor Conquista Todo

[Vicenç Feliú]

Tru dat!   😆

Vicenç - (bee sense)
Pembroke Pines, FL
1986 Aston - BCW Model 52 - "Montse II"

(1983 FiberFab MiGi II - "Montse")

[Rich Kallenberger]

Yes, I know it’s tacky.  I think that these were a fad in the 70’s.

[Toller]

I’ve noticed more guys driving soccer mom vans looking with envy, waving and giving me the thumbs up as they go by with mom and a couple of kids in the back. They also been looking over at the wife to make sure she is distracted or looking elsewhere before acknowledging the TDR. Maybe they are future recruits for the fraternity, so we have to keep the cars alive so they have something to inherit

David B Dixon
Port Perry ON CA
Sabine

[edward ericson]

I’ve said this before but it was a while ago, so I’ll repeat: The TDr is cooler than the Cobra replica and the Speedster replica. It’s not only rarer—a plus at any car show or on the boulevard—it’s also more pedestrian. It’s a $5,000 copy of a $15,000 car. That makes it cooler because it’s not at all about status (which, let’s be real, both the Porsche (a $30k copy of a $300k car) and Cobra ($40k/ $600k) are at least a little bit). It’s the pure “cool” play. It’s absolutely as impractical as the other two contenders, or moreso. It does not have the speed of either. Yet it’s still utterly unsafe—reckless in these years when anything without at least 400 airbags in it is considered no good by moms everywhere (and anyone with a brain, really).

More than the Cobra, which was about muscle and winning races with brute force, and the Speedster, which was about selling to California and winning races with superior technology and lightness, the TD (which was about exporting something Americans would buy so the car company would not go bankrupt) evokes a simpler, more devil-may-care vibe. That it also won races back in the mists of history as the empire faded out is just a talking point. That it inspired every affordable sports car that followed (including the Speedster and the Corvette) is a fact I seldom get to repeat to its admirers. That the TDr is no longer made (and sometimes disparaged, especially the VW-based version) makes it that rarest gem in the automotive world: a machine of pure passion and style. There’s nothing left going for it, and that is its magic.

[Vicenç Feliú]

Well said!

Vicenç - (bee sense)
Pembroke Pines, FL
1986 Aston - BCW Model 52 - "Montse II"

(1983 FiberFab MiGi II - "Montse")

[newkitman]

Here here. I’ll raise a pint-o-bitters to that.

Allen Caron
VW based 53MGTD - "MoneyPenny"
"If one thing matters, everything matters" - from the book The Shack

[newkitman]

Yes, I know it’s tacky.  I think that these were a fad in the 70’s.

 

So were the suction cup wind-up key which I have a total quantity of 1. And it rotates in the wind!

Allen Caron
VW based 53MGTD - "MoneyPenny"
"If one thing matters, everything matters" - from the book The Shack

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