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A JUBILEE SPECIAL…
The photo that appeared on the August 1977 front cover of Safety Fast!
This is the story, as best as I can tell it, of the special edition, one-off 1977 Silver Jubilee MGB GT. My connection with the car is purely one of circumstance, when in 2020 my late father-in-law signed the vehicle over to his daughter and my wife Doreen, now
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the registered keeper. Hence, it’s become my job to polish the chrome, spared only by black rubber bumpers, with a custodial view to keep the car in its original condition and good running order. As an eleven-year-old in 1977, my lasting memory of the Queen’s Silver
Jubilee celebration was of a large scoop of red, white and almost fluorescent blue ‘Jubilee trifle’, unceremoniously dolloped onto my plate by a rather fierce-looking school dinner lady. Whilst barely out of shorts and still causing trouble in the playground, feverishly patriotic plans were
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