Steve Baker's Gorgeous MGs

12:27 PM MG T-Series 0 Comments

I have a mad crush on Steve Baker's MGs, made worse by the knowledge that I can't have one.

Steve is a UK-based MG restoration guru who specialized in pre-WWII MGs, particularly the Q/P Type chassis, which is freaking gorgeous and exactly what I want. I follow his blog and bemoan the fact that he doesn't make the Q Type bodies for MG TDs or TFs.


This, to an American, is much sadness, because laying hands on a left-hand drive, state-side MG TC or earlier is not likely to happen. (I won't say "impossible," just unlikely.) So while I can drool over the sexy bullet-back, if I want my own it'll have to be fabricated by a specialist shop here...and how much is *that* going to cost?


Steve does fully restore MGs for American buyers, but that is no doubt out of my price range. Plus part of this project is that I get to work on the car myself, though all sources are telling me to buy the best car I possibly can. I like fixing things, but I also want to have a functional car I can massage into a racer in a reasonable amount of time, not a rusty bucket on cinder blocks for the next decade.

Just musing...