Stuart
Mumby finds an RV8 in Yorkshire
An
RV8 enjoying a rare dry day this week with a run to Pocklington Canal in East
Yorkshire.
Updated: 140224
Posted:
140222
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Mumby, a longstanding MGA enthusiast has recently acquired this car and says "you
may recall that I bought Dave Wellings' Black MGBGTV8 in 2008 and sold it in 2010
because my wife was unenthusiastic about travelling in it, which kind of put the
kibosh on my intention to use it as a supplement to my MGA for Continental touring.
I replaced the V8 with a TF 160 on the same day as parting with the V8, but I
was unhappy with the driving experience. I sold the TF last July and took delivery
of the RV8 last Sunday. I was fortunate to hear about this unadvertised car by
word of mouth from a local MG Car Club member. It was only 20 minutes down the
road from me.
Unfortunately
it has suffered from a lack of TLC during its last five years but the attraction,
of course, was the colour. I now need to fettle it back to how it should be. I
should hasten to add that my wife loves the car and, being a convertible, she
will be happier with it than with the MGBGTV8; otherwise it will be the wife I'll
sell and keep the car!" | Stuart
plans to meet up with an earlier owner of this RV8 and put together the history
of the car for the RV8 archive project which Alan Rennie has volunteered to work
on as our RV8 Archivist.
Later Stuart mentioned "the main purpose of the
short outing that day and visit to the canal was to mark the car's 20th Birthday,
having been first registered on 19th February 1994. That photo then, will be its
official 20th birthday photo in the car's history file." | | V8
Register - MG Car Club - the
leading group for MG V8 enthusiasts at www.v8register.net |
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