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MG TD TF 1500 - Final Survivor Challenge WInner

GOF MK 95 in Middlebury, Vermont was the final installment of the Survivor Challenge, with the winning TC, TD and TF going head to head for the final title of the best, all original, as it left the factory T Type. The winning car was Barbara Day's late 1953 silver streak grey MG TD. Barbara has owned the car since new, driven it regularly, and maintained it very well. I have driven the car, and it is one of the nicest driving TDs I have driven. The selling dealer added running board strips to the fenders to make the car look more TF like, as the TFs were in the showroom when this car was sold.
Blair Weiss was kind enough to help Barbara drive the car home.
Well done Barbara!
David

D. Sander

Barbara taking her award.

D. Sander

Well deserved - both she and the car are one of a kind. The presence of both was one of the show highlights to me personally. They embody the essence of MG T!
Keith
K E MURPHY

Dave sent me a bunch of pictures to post on the TD site when I come up for air. Nice car and I love to see SSG every once in a while over the ever present red :-)
Christopher Couper

well deserved indeed! nicely done barbara, nicely done.

regards, tom
tm peterson

Barbara Day!

I love the story she tells about the Coin toss!

She had the TD and her husband had the XK120.Must have been back in the 1960s. One of the cars had to be sold and the coin toss would decide the fate!

She always would say I won.....and I would always shake my head at her and say but the other car was a 120 Jag, You are crazy! She didn't care she got to keep HER car!

Well at least her latest victory makes me fell better
as she has been driving that car 50 plus years!

Nice job Barbara! She is amazing!
Steven Devine

I feel alot better about her driving that car, having driven it half way home for her. The steering is tight and the brakes work exceptionally well. Barbara told me that there are only three men that have ever driven her car, her husband, Dave and myself.

She texted me friday night and her and the TD are safely home.

Blair
Blair Weiss

Here is a shot of Blair, Leslie and Barbara just before Blair and the TD Barbara's TD departed

D. Sander

Blair and Leslie departing in the TD. Mort and Fredda are preparing Möbius in the background. Thanks for doing this Blair, I had a few things to do that day...

D. Sander

Wow. That is the very spirit of these little cars. I need to go back find the SO issue with her car in it.

The car, the owner, the stories she can tell of over 50 years of ownership - all are amazing.

Thanks to NEMGTR for running that challenge. We all get to win something from it.

BobbyG
Bobby Galvez

Congrats Barbara.... Not three but four guys have driven her car... How do I know ? I have maintained her jewel for her for the last dozen years and often pick it up a deliver it..
SJ MacKAY

You do good work. Have Barbara show you her two trophys.
David
D. Sander

Blair,

Ha ha ha! Don't believe everything Barbara says about that car.

I have driven it.... Steve Mackay has driven it. In fact I'm hard pressed to think of any one I know that hasn't driven it! (She's just trying to build up her legendary status.)Ha ha ha!

She has some great stories though....she can be kind of like talking to an old gunfighter from the wild west!

She has TRUE GRIT!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-cPWheNyaA
Steven Devine

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