| Typhoon
pilot's MG visits his memorial in France
Dennis
Wharf is a longstanding Club member who enjoys touring in his MGBGTV8 (Blaze 1098).
Here he describes a journey with a fellow MG enthusiast in a special MG visiting
its former owner's memorial in France. See the illustrated article. More
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 | Last
winter Dennis Wharf's friends Brian and Julie Nuth purchased a one owner 1969
MGBGT as the owner had died some six months earlier at a good age, but with no
descendants interested in taking the car over. Nothing unusual in that except
the car's one owner was a former Typhoon pilot, Roy Crane, from WWII who is honoured
for his bravery in the French village of Noyers-Bocage in France. |
| The
tour over to France proved to be thoroughly enjoyable and most interesting, and
the destination extremely attractive. Both cars - Dennis with his MGBGTV8 and
Brian with the MGBGT - performed faultlessly, never missing a beat during the
1,000 mile return journey to Noyers-Bocage covering some impressive mileages on
two of the days. Of interest the MGBGTV8 only consumed an additional 4 litres
(a little less than less than a gallon) of super unleaded 98 octane when compared
with the fuel used by the four cylinder car over the entire continental part of
our tour proving, if it were ever in doubt, what a superbly economical grand touring
car the V8 actually is. | | |
