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I'll Lock Up
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A fellow said to me today, while I was in the garage, carefully pumping fuel, there's no sensor so I have to be careful or it sloshes out over my shoes when full, he said: "Great car, but in this weather, you need the TD." "Oh I couldn't drive an open top, " I said, "my hat would blow away." "That would never do," he replied, "your hat doesn't look like it's from the cheap end." I took it of and showed him the hatband. "Biltmore!" He said, "I bought a felt Biltmore last year." He then said that his hat was complimented many times at the vintage event that he went to. I showed him the photo of my car at the same event. "I knew that I had seen your car before," he said. I then said that it's rather warm today for a felt hat but did he still get compliments. he told me that he hasn't had the nerve to wear it since.
The MG TD, is a shortened sports version of my car, the classic grille and MG "face" is retained . Just over 50,000 TD's were made, whereas my car the MG YB is one of only 1301 made.