Not long after the YB arrived, I grew tired of my daily driver and decided to get another. The old MGB which had served me daily for many years was not able to carry the type of equipment I needed for work, so I got something bigger… another 1967 MGB GT. Unlike the one I had as a teenager, this one was fully restored and to this day still serves as a daily driver.

Thinking that our stable was full with the B, BGT, MGA and YB, we came across a great deal on the car we had always wanted – an MG TC. We struck a deal and brought the car home where it was returned to regular service after many years of non-use and neglect. It quickly became our favorite car and remains so today. It has taken us on many adventures from multi-thousand miles tours to off-road trails through the mountains.

The next to find its way home with us was a 1969 MGC GTS tribute. With six M.G.s now in the stable, it was at this point we reluctantly decided to sell the YB to someone who could drive it more often. With no room in the garage but a patch of driveway still vacant, we eventually filled it with two old Fords – a 1925 Model T Roadster Pickup and a 1939 V8 Pickup basket case. At this point we either had to sell some cars or move, so we did the logical thing – we moved. With a larger property we were able to build a garage so big that we could never fill it.

Shortly after, a 1946 John Deere AN tractor found its way home to live in the front yard like a guard dog. Eventually we sold the Model T to pay for a 1967 Austin Healey 3000 that a friend offered us, and the partially completed Ford V8 project was sold to make room for a 1948 MG TC basket case for Linda, which sat alongside a 1949 MG TC basket case I was restoring for my father. When a good, complete car at a great price came up, I convinced him to sell the car I was building for him (which was 50% done) so we got a bit of space back. So Linda filled it with a 1959 Morris Minor project that I fixed+AI10079 up for her and now she drives it semi-daily in good weather. Her project TC, barely started, was sold to a friend who wrecked his TC and desperately needed a parts car.

More recently we purchased one of my bucket list items, a very original 1937 MG SA Saloon with an amazing history. In between cars I rescued a 1953 MG TD club racer that had been rotting for a few decades and spent a few months returning it to the road before finding it a good home. A couple years later Linda expanded her Morris venture with a 1969 Woodie Traveller. After that I had a reverse mid-life crisis and bought a newer car than my daily driver, a 1984 Porsche 928S. It was just a high school bucket list that and it probably won't last long.

With zero space left, Linda decided to push things and bought her own 1948 MG TC from a fellow club member, but at least I didn't have to restore this one. And with that, her modern daily has been relegated to the driveway because she has more cars than I do.

Other Vehicles:
1937 MG SA Saloon
1946 John Deere AN Tractor
1958 MGA
1959 Morris Minor 1000 Convertible
1965 MGB
1967 Austin Healey 3000 BJ8
1967 MGB GT (RHD)
1969 MGC GTS (RHD)
1969 Morris Minor Traveler Woodie
1984 Porsche 928S

TC8975 was purchased in England in 1970 by a New Yorker who eventually passed it onto his son. The car made its way from New York to Colorado and then to Los Angeles. After 30 years in the same family, we bought it in May, 2005. It is lovingly maintained but will never be fully restored, as we prefer a bit of dirt in the arches to a trailer queen. We have driven the TC on numerous trips, some spanning thousands of miles.

TC7042 was purchased from TCMG member Mel Appell in 2025, who owned the car since March, 1981. It was fully restored in 1983 by Mike Goodman, with upholstery work done by Joe Namnam. Mel bought the car after its previous owner, a Hollywood director, died in a fire while drunk!