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I Helped Make t he First Miat a, and Now I love It s Ancest or Story and photos by Norman Garrett

I had never owned a car like t his, one wit h pre-war root s, and I wasn? looking
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for it . B ut if you?e bored and hunt ing on Craigslist long enough, you usually run
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across somet hing t hat cat ches your eye. Something you probably shouldn? buy.
That?s how I met Abigail.
Abigail is a 1952 MG TD. The TD is part of MG?s ?T-Series? family, five models produced, one after the
other, from 1936 to 1955. The TA came first, then the TB, the TC, the TD, and the TF. Each is a variation
on the same basic idea. They all have long and flowing fenders, a long-stroke four-cylinder, a four-speed
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Performance, all the
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