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I thought I would share a couple of pictures of the latest MGF's I have imported from Japan.
The one picture is chassis 3060 1.8i Charcoal (1996) grey with red interior - 56,000km
The other car (not pictured) chassi 9397 is a 1.8iBRG (1996) with factory hardtop (for now!) with 27,000km
The cars were picked up in Halifax today for their next ocean voyage from Halifax to st. John's over this weekend!
Interesting colour, John. Is that similar to Rich's colour?
What's the plan for these? Add to your collection or selling? If selling, what's the one pictured going for?
Hey Simon
Selling the grey one next spring but haven't decided a price yet as I want to get it home and have a good look first but first impression it's a really great car.
Same as Richs car- I think his has a red interior too
Are you in the market for one
Just curious, John. I think I've got enough roadsters but always willing to chat when the time comes to sell.
Nice looking car. I'll be interested to know your assessment of them once you get a chance to look them over.
Mine is also charcoal but has a black interior.
The interesting thing is that my car is #3068, so would have
gone down the line along with John's.:)
You know John, If I bought the grey one my wife wouldn't know I had another MGF.
I would just have to make sure she never saw them together!
0916 Dec 18th Cars loaded onboard Oceanex Sanderling. (computerized tracking is great!)
Is that informed enough? LOL(:D
The red is quite something. is that factory?
What site are you using to track the ship, John? I used www.vesseltracker.com when my car came over. Unlike aircraft, ships are only visible when in sight of land due to the limits of their tracking devices.
After my ship left Yokohama Bay, it disappeared in the Pacific until it made landfall in Mexico a few days later. Then I watched it sail up the coast to San Francisco, enter the Columbia River at Portland then into Vancouver.
Amazing to watch how fast they turn a vessel around at each port.
The red interior is nice. I believe that Sean's charcoal MGF on Vancouver Island has a red interior as well.
As a matter of fact I have a 1:18 model of the MGF with a red interior.
Initially I was thinking of installing leather seats in my F but after living with the cloth seats I like them just fine.
I did pick up an NOS seat cover to replacee the one on my drivers seat which is a bit worn.
The ship tracking is pretty cool. When my car came across the Atlantic I was able to track it all the way on the Wallenius Line's
company tracking system. It wasn't a real time update and was only updated a couple of times a day, but it was nice to get an idea of where my car was.
BTW: Skye, if you ever want to take an MGF for a drive give me an e-mail and we can get together. The snow tires are on right now but the handling is still pretty darn good, although nowhere near as good as with the T1-Rs.
Very nice looking car John. The seats look to be in excellent condition. Most of the pictures I have seen of early cars with cloth interiors look very worn and faded.
It's amazing the number of MGFs that have shown up in Canada over the past year.
Rich, Where did you get the MGF 1/18 scale model?
I got the model on E-Bay.UK Mark.
There are usually a few on there. I was able to find one with
a damaged box that went cheap.
They could be accurate.
I am thinking of bringing in a set for my summer tires.:)
Not a great picture but the cars were just discharged! YAY!!
Congrats John.:)-D
Looks like Santa came to Newfoundland a little early!
I'm just asking Santa for a bit of free time, to allow me to get out to the garage and work on the cars, not just go to grab a beer and head back into the house.
There was a couple of hardtops on EBay UK while I was snooping around there last night. Shipping would be an issue though.
John, are both cars the same colour or is that just the photo?
Well, if John is 1/2 as good as the guy who wrapped up the RV8 parts I bought, you'll have no worries, Rich.
There was enough wood used to frame a small rancher. Not a mark on the parts.
The guy in Minnesota that I tried to buy a hardtop from last year spent 2 months trying to build a crate.
In the pictures it looked like a box girder bridge.
I got tired of his excuses for not shipping and finally cancelled the sale.
I think he was relieved he didn't have to finish the crate!
I don't think that John will have any problems. A roll of bubble wrap,some corrugated and a few rolls of
packing tape should do the trick if it comes by air.
Unfortunately I don't think there are any direct flights between St. John's and Vancouver so it will need to switch
planes somewhere.::o
John, Is that rear MGF a VVC?
In the spring you will have to do a head to head test for us.>:D<