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The State of Indiana Doesn't Know What a MG is

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I will say Ontario asked me (in person not in writing) what MG stood for - Midget not so much. (Though I suppose I could have registered it as an MG Little Person - Ooo am I allowed to say that?) :devilgrin:
 

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I will say Ontario asked me (in person not in writing) what MG stood for - Midget not so much. (Though I suppose I could have registered it as an MG Little Person - Ooo am I allowed to say that?) :devilgrin:

A Morris Garage Little Person. :cool-new:

Coincidentally, I just approved the account of a new member - MiniGuy.
 

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A Morris Garage Little Person. :cool-new:

Coincidentally, I just approved the account of a new member - MiniGuy.

OOH - I know him!

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Coincidentally, I just approved the account of a new member - MiniGuy.

Hmmm... possible copyright infringement. There is a Mini import business in CA called MiniGuy operated by a guy named Mike Lewis.

https://www.miniguy.com/


EDIT: I finally remembered how to look through the member list. MiniGuy mentioned above does appear to be Mike Lewis from CA... or at least someone in the same town! Welcome Mike!
 
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And in the MG, I get: "Is that a Triumph?"

Had one exchange in-traffic while stopped at a light, guy in a Caddy SUV asked: "Is that an A or a C?" I think the hardtop confuses 'em.
 

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And based on the number of people that come up to me in parking lots and at gas stations.
1 in 5 people over the age of 50 owned a MG in the 70’s there must have been more MG on the road than Levi’s in closets
 

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I had a lady say “nice Mercedes” after seeing my TR6.
 

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Yeah, I used to get the "like James Bond's car a lot". Also got the MG thing a lot with my Triumph. Also, they must have sold a lot of British sportscars in the Midwest, or they changed hands a lot, cause everybody had one or has a relative that had one back in the day.
 

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I think it isn't the State so much as the uneducated people who know nothing of what they are working with. Someone programmed the system with no knowledge of automobiles.
 

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I think it isn't the State so much as the uneducated people who know nothing of what they are working with. Someone programmed the system with no knowledge of automobiles.

Software is king! The program designers don't always know the realm they're working with.

At my last physical my doctor stared at the terminal in his office, and asked if I had any drug allergies. I said Terramycin. He clicked a few links on the page, then said "Terramycin isn't in the list I can choose from. I'll put in doxycycline instead - it's close."

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Oddly enough, I've had several people tell me they own v8 powered sprites back in the day. When I ask for details though, less than forthcoming with info and cant really remember anything about them. I just kinda laugh.
 

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Oddly enough, I've had several people tell me they own v8 powered sprites back in the day. When I ask for details though, less than forthcoming with info and cant really remember anything about them. I just kinda laugh.

I saw a lot of butchered British cars in my youth. V8 and V6 transplants with automatic transmissions seemed to be everywhere. The cars always looked nose heavy with silly looking bonnet cutouts or ducts to make room for the air cleaners. The transmissions were always shoe horned into the car with cobed together flat sheet metal mods to the tunnel. The people you ran into were probably brief owners of such cars... and they wanted to forget the experience.
 

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When my parents got their first Mercedes (1961), the first neighbor who saw it asked "Is that one of the new Studebakers?"

Needless to say, my parents were not pleased.

1961 M-B:

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1961 Studebaker Lark:

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Mercedes still has a "signature" front end even today. Studebaker ... hmmm
 

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When my parents got their first Mercedes (1961), the first neighbor who saw it asked "Is that one of the new Studebakers?"

It could be worse. A few years later they might have said "Hey is that a Granada?"

I had not noticed until your pictures how in a side view the Lark convertible looks like a Triumph Herald.
 
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