Of MGs Wooden Ships and Broken Promises

Perhaps the best advice I ever got in my life came from my Uncle Ed.

“Don’t buy that MG”.

Now I’ll be the first to admit. She wasn’t much to look at. She needed a bit of bodywork and the rag top had a couple of patches.

But she was fun to drive.

Of course he had owned a number of MGs and other exotic cars himself. Basically……. He knew of whence he spoke.

I never heard an “I told you so”.

When I would share with him my latest tale of some repair I needed or upgrade I decided to make he would nod his head and say:

“That’s the price of being a sport” and “If you own a sports car you better be ready to get your hands dirty.”

See he wasn’t trying to discourage me. He was helping me.

He was helping me to learn an…