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We
arrived in the UK on Saturday. A tour guided by Adrian brought us to Brown
and Gammons and should have brought us to Longbridge, however
we lost the convoy, didn't know where to go next, so we headed for the
hotel and checked in quite early.
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We
stayed at the Tudor Hotel Inn; a nice looking hotel from the 15th century...
unfortunatly the rooms were not clean at all, infrastructure was very
old and on the last day the people responsible for the hotel didn't show
up to serve breakfast.
On
the first night, some **** tried to rip off the self adhesive white dot
with the mgtf.be url. Thank god it is a very sticky one, otherwise we
would need to participate the show without the decal.
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It
all started with this one, it's now more than 80 years ago.
This
car, called Old Number One, is officially the first MG, although
some other cars previous to this one could have been MG's. It took me
by surprise as it was there in the BMH museum without any security.
If you wanted to touch it, you could have done it. I remember the car
from the Antwerp Classics show where it was standing on a stage, far away
and safe from the public.
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Before
the launch of the MGF, some prototypes were beeing developed.
PR5/DR2
(left, at the top and in red) was a design study for a larger MG. The
'BIG' MG project was cancelled in 1991.
MG
EX-E (left, in silver) was shown at the Frankfurt Motorshow in 1985.
There was one finished in red, the other one, finished in silver can be
found in the BMH museum.
SIM2
was a transformed Metro with a mid mounted K-series engine (1.4 litres).
It was build for clandestine road tests around Gaydon and had a decal
on the doors: RTC 24h express services, where RTC stands for Rover Test
Center.
The
first officially produced MGF carrying the VIN number 251 has never
been sold to anyone and is now owned by Nanjing. The organisers of the
MGF10 event and the BMH museum made it possible to show us that special
MGF (red with black hardtop).
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We
were not the only ones giving the car a last polish before the crowd arrives
and starts admiring the cars.
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Some
overview pictures.
The
number of MGF/TF's exceeded 482, at 01:00PM and MG's were still arriving,
so there msut be close to or just over 500 MGF/TF's.
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Black
(or at least dark) VVC wheels with blue painted callipers. It looks aggresive,
even on a standard F (amber indicators, no painted reflectors) and I do
like it, but why always those mudflaps ?
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The
Essex Roadsters had a big X on their cars, which was the result of some
good thinking: the XPower "X" and the "X" as a 10.
Very nice idea !!
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MGTF
in Trophy Yellow with a nice background
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Always
popular, the TF in Starlight Silver.
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Must
have been a Special Edition in a previous life. Look at the impressive
alloys and the many chrome/alloy parts added to the cars interior and
exterior.
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Yellow
callipers: not my cup of tea, especially in combination with the 15"
square spoke alloys, which look too small allready.
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Must
be one of my favourits: Monogramed Bittersweet MY2005 MGTF. Mid
console has been colourcoded as well and the rear light units are from
XParts. Keep up the good work Sharky !!
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Another
Monogram color (Gulfstream) ??
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In
the 'Cars on the Web' section, this car from mgfsoo.com.
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. . and the car from Bruno, representing the Belgian/Dutch forum at mgf.be
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Our
Nightfire Red MGF at 'Cars on the Web', off course on display for the
English Fantasy.
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My
favourite color: Monogram Sunspot Yellow
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Another
Monogram color: Celestial
Very
nice idea to keep the rear spoiler in dark blue, as it matches the softtop
really well.
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Again
one from the Essex Roadster's group. The look of this TF and the idea
behind this car is growing on me and I must admit that I kind of like
it. It's getting very sporty and racing and that's good.
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MGTF
LE 80th Aniversary Edition's
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It's
probably just me, but I don't like these rear clusters. Anyway a volcano
F with rear spoiler.
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Talking
about rear clusters, have you've seen this car: at the lefthand side the
MGTF cluster, and at the righthand side the original MGF cluster.
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IMHO
better looking than Trophy Yellow. I've seen this car on many occasions
and I really like it. Everything on the car looks right: check the headlight
reflectors, good idea to have them yellow as well; check the rear lights,
black looks just perfect overthere, ....
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Another
magazine featured MGF. This tuned MGF has NOS on board and has
an interesting story in Total MG.
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Well
known from the mg-rover.org forum, Deano has one very nice TF. He was
one of the very first ones to own the black/smoked rear clusters. They
do look nice on his car.
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We
do know this car from last Silverstone. It has some good ideas, but I
am not a big fan of all those silver painted bits. I must admit that the
rear light clusters do look good on this car.
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I
guess this is a non-standard MGF color, however it is very special and
kind of wicked.
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I spotted
these TF MY2005 cars. One of them is in Sonic Blue (light blue)
while the other blue one is Ignition Blue. Both colors were only
available on the MY2005 TF.
The
red one must be Rio Red, which is also a new color for the TF.
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Back
to wheels, so check this out: chrome or polished cup wheels on a dark
coloured car.
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more
wheels coming ...
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not bad if you like black/dark wheels
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A
TF with the very expensive ULW's
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Another
group coming from Belgium
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Again
those Lexus style lights, this time on a platinum silver MGF.
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It's
all chrome and alloy
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Scarlet
Fever, one of the most famous MGFs
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MGH....
where the "H" stands for Honda
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Trophy
style front, Trophy - KH Splitter combination with integrated foggies.
TF bootlid at the rear.
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Grenadine
interior; if I had a black TF I would have ordered it with ..... if, if,
if....
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Pre-production
cars, or MGF's with a VIN number lower than 251. Both of them have
been used in races/rally's.
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Nicely
styled MGF, Trophy style... but there's so much more: the badge at the
side of the car says it all: "V6". That's right, this is the
first MGF with a Rover KV6 fitted behind the seats.
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Rob
Bell, head of the MGF Register welcomes designer Gerry McGovern,
who will be putting autographs on everything you think of.
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Andrew
Phillips busy duing his lecture about the most common faults with an F.
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MG
TF Spark Edition
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MG
TF in XPower Grey
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3
or 4 MGFs at the show were in Sienna Gold
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The
F from Mike Satur, with different wheels at the front and the rear.
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We
know this car as well . . .
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Again
one from Essex
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MGF
Wedgewood Special Edition with a white hardtop.
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MGF
Wedgewood Special Edition without a hardtop
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Red
MGF
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Red
MkII MGF with Remus exhaust and .... from Danmark
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Don't
know if I have seen another white TF, but this one is from Art.
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MGF
with SP/Miltek Super Turismo exhaust and hardtop with Union Jack.
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Just
a nice picture of a nice red MGF
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Interior
of a Cup Car.
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Couldn't
resist to have these pictures online to.
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Anyone
knows this exhaust ?
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Anyone
knows this spoiler ?
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Driving
back to Folkestone where we take the train to the continent.
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