Frank and Margaret Brooks share with us some thoughts about the car that has been with them most of their married lives (and a fair bit more). Video by Rod Thompson
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00:00 Well, we've owned the car about 55 years now.
00:07 It's actually been rebuilt twice.
00:10 We've just done a fair bit of work in that time.
00:15 There's always something to do to it.
00:18 Yeah, it's a never-ending job.
00:21 Whether it be...
00:23 Like trying to fix an oil leak?
00:26 No, you never fix that in an MG.
00:29 [laughs]
00:32 They do tend to drip a bit in these cars, too.
00:35 They tend to drip a bit of oil, but that's part of it.
00:37 So if it's not dripping oil, it doesn't have any oil in it.
00:40 [laughs]
00:43 But maintenance-wise, it gets its regular services and different things.
00:49 It's actually pretty good.
00:51 We've done a few alterations to it, and it's got it going better on the road now.
00:57 Before, it was sort of all over the place.
01:00 But it's really good now.
01:02 Yeah, we've put some different tyres on it, changed it around a bit.
01:06 And now it's good to drive.
01:08 Don't go on the West Chobhmer Highway, though.
01:10 Not the old road. You'll feel every bump.
01:12 It's a pretty bumpy ride, isn't it?
01:14 And it's nice to drive without the wood up.
01:18 It doesn't get the wood up very...
01:19 It's got to be pretty bad weather to have the wood up.
01:21 Yeah, pretty well. We don't need to pull it apart anymore.
01:24 But at this stage, anyway, it seems to be going very well.
01:28 We have had it on display at the Auto Museum.
01:31 That's a few years ago now.
01:32 Yeah, it's been down there. It was down there for a little while.
01:34 That's three months.
01:36 Round about three months.
01:37 We're going down to Bascombe in a couple of weeks' time.
01:42 We'll have the historic racing on down there.
01:45 We'll take all the T-Type MGs.
01:47 We take a few down. A group of us go down.
01:50 That's a good weekend. That's a pretty good run for it.
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