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MG MGA - The New M.G. Nuts dot com

After far too long, I've finally finished the new version of the M.G. Nuts web site!

Everything has been re-written from the ground up with lots of new content and a cleaner look. There are still plenty of updates to do including dozens of images submitted to me by email over the past couple of years, but at least the site is finally online. Currently there are 4,107 images and 174 pages of content. I hope everyone enjoys the site!

The site URL is, as always, http://www.mgnuts.com

All comments welcome, good or bad, private or public. :)
Steve S

Hi Steve, superb site as always, long awaited and well worth it, thank you


Gordon
g c pugh

Gday Steve, great site love the updates. Bob
B WALKER

CONGRATULATIONS

TOTAL ENVY

MUCH ENJOYED

Colin (MGA 1622 roadster l/hand drive
c daly

That's a great update, Steve--I much enjoyed revisiting your site. Your garage is astounding, not to mention its residents!
Ken
Ken Korey

Great site. I found a broken link on the 'M.G. Main Page', the 'The Lucas Link' link doesn't work. Otherwise great, I've spent a lot of time reading over the site with more still to go!
AndrewF

- "the 'The Lucas Link' link doesn't work"

You sure that's an accident? ;)

Thanks for the comments, I'm glad you guys are enjoying the site!
Steve S

Haha, of course... I'm a bit slow!
AndrewF

Well, I'll admit that the link used to do something. The code I used to do it became so outdated that newer browsers wouldn't support it. So now, it only works on certain computers, certain browsers, etc. Kind of intermittent. Rather than fix it, I thought it was more appropriate as-is. Some people will talk about what happens when you press the link and others will wonder why it never works. :)
Steve S

Nice looking site, but I have to take exception to the definition of MG as a manufacturer of British sports cars through 1980. We Yanks tend to forget that there were MGs being manufactured long after they stopped importing them to the States.

Ken
k v morton

The 1980 figure refers to the date the M.G. Car Company shut down production and closed its doors. When MGs were once again made two years later, it was by a new company with new designs and a different assembly plant. All they did was to slap MG badges on re-tuned Maestros, Montegos and Metros in order to sell cars off the MG name to the European market. Pretty much every site out there including those in the UK list the same date, 1980, as the day MG went out of business. Everything after that is "new" history.
Steve S

The RV8 and the F were hardly rebadged Metros. There once were folks who claimed that the formation of BMC in 1952 was the end of the MG, and that the Austin-engined MGA wasn't a real MG!

Ken
k v morton

There are always people who say the new model isn't a "real" whatever the old model was. Even Miata owners have this debate. But Mazda today is the same Mazda of 1989 when the Miata came out. MG's history is a little different since they actually went out of business and closed their doors.

As for what a "real" version of a car is, that falls into two categories that I can see - emotional and corporate. midgets weren't real MGs because they didn't have 6-cylinder engines. The TA because it didn't' have an overhead cam engine. The MGA because it didn't have a vertical grill. The MGB because it didn't have a separate frame.

Now for some clarity, the RV8 and MGF were not released until long after the MG name was revived by a new parent company. In fact, the RV8 wasn't released until 1992, 12 years after The M.G. Car Company, Ltd. went out of business. The MGF wasn't released until 1995.

The re-badged cars I mentioned were the first offerings from the newly revived MG in 1982, a name then owned by Rover, as an example of what the new company was about. Most people who own "modern" MGs (those made after the original company went belly-up) will often argue that they are just as much MG as anything, and by the name on the grill they certainly are. But my site, for example, is about the cars made by the original M.G. Car Company at Abingdon, and the handful of the earliest cars made at Cowley. It follows the more emotional side of the coin.

In any case, it was never my intention to debate what a "real MG" is. I just enjoy the earlier MG cars, so I made a site for them. :)
Steve S

Steve - your site was always great to visit before, but it is really a treat now. I especially love the Magazine photos section of you MGA and the entire "Stories" section!
- Ken
Ken Doris

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