NEWSLETTER
Edward Vandyk Tel: 01488 608810 mgascribe@vandyk.co.uk
WELCOME TO THE
MGA NEWSLETTER MGAs are special. A belief I am confident all members of the MGA Register share. In their time they represented a revolution in design, innovation and specification whilst maintaining the best characteristics of the traditional British sports car and heralding in the era of the sleeker, dryer and more civilised sports car we have today. The MGA was special and remains special. MGAs have character, often individual character, sometimes that character has less appealing aspects but it is character nevertheless. The temptation
to anthropomorphise our cars is overwhelming, even if we admit it to none other than ourselves. Hardly surprising, then, that we want to share the significant moments in our lives with our MGAs when we can, and in concluding the mini-series of MGAs and weddings that I have run over the last few months with four more examples of MGA Weddings, I make an appeal to readers of this column for any examples, other than weddings, where your MGA has figured prominently in what would normally be an event seen by most outside the classic car community as one that would involve people only, not cars and old ones at that. It is of course the case that people
have long shared important events in their lives with their pets, another faithful companion and cars, and before that carriages, have long been a central feature of weddings. However, if one set out to define the antithesis of the perfect wedding car the MGA would probably be on the top ten. Nevertheless there are, and I am sure will be in future, no shortage of MGA Weddings – long may it continue. My interest in MGA Weddings and the joy and anxiety that accompany them was occasioned by the wedding I wrote about in the January 2021 edition of Safety Fast! which featured in a supporting role your Scribe’s doppelganger red MGA, which happened to be a Twin Cam, brought in
Jacques and Stéphanie with their MGA Twin Cam
50 SAFETY FAST! MARCH 2021
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