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Well, I never knew that!

Keith Belcher has a series of items from the past which capture the times and the interest people have had in an MGB.
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Keith Belcher is our Pricewatch volunteer monitoring cars seen for sale and listed for auction and from that gathering the essential data we need to maintain our 6 monthly MGV8 market reviews and price guides. Price guides

Posted: 200813

	Keith Belcher ecalls that "in August 1968 Corgi Toys, owned by Mettoy Playcraft Ltd, ran a competion aimed at selling more of their Corgi Toys (they were the ones with windows) to young children. The prize was "a new MGB GT for your Dad". It is not known who won the MGB GT but I bet it sold thousands of toy cars. The toy MGB GT was priced at 6/6d (or 32.5p in today's money)!