Thanks for this article and the memories it elicits. Had a 1969 British racing green MGB with a hard-top for the winter. It was a gorgeous quick moving money pit! But it was my previous 67 white MG Midget that I remember the most. Won a huge white polar bear at the C.N.E. in Toronto for my girlfriend. Drove up the D.V.P. with the bear stuffed behind the front seats ; got honked at all the way up to the 401. Also drove it across Canada; on the return trip crossed three provinces in three days from Vancouver. Hit Sudbury in first gear since the rest were gone. RCMP nailed me for speeding in Saskatchewan at 90 m.p.h. All the constable said that she saw was a white blur coming between the wheat fields. Asked why I didn't stop when I saw her, I said this is an MG you don't stop it might not start again!  Ah, those were the days!