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NBCC Welcomes

            A Thoroughly Modern MG  t hat  Left   Canada  t o Best  a Dragon


                                                                                                  by Chip Hanback






















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                                                                                          image istock Damian Lugowski

                                                                         Neil  Liddiard  left  his  home  in  Ontario
                                                                         Canada,      where     his    lives    with
                                                                         his wife and son, to travel around the U.S
                                                                         and     included     a    trip    to    our      Above: Spacious, with a place for everything and everything in its place. Below: The money shot- Mission Accomplished!
                                                                         garage  on  July  25th  for  an  impromptu
                                                                         visit.   Neil   has    spent     the    last
                                                                         31 years working as an IT manager for the
                                                                         city      of      Toronto       and       is
                                                                         spending  part  of  his  summer  vacation
                                                                         touring  the  US  in  his  2003  RHD  MG
                                                                         TF.



                                                                         Neil  bought  the  car  in  2018  after  its
                                                                         original      owner,       his      cousin,
  Above: Hospitality is in a car club's genes.  L-R Canadian Neil
                                                                         passed  away  in  England.  He  had  it
  Liddiard was welcomed by NBCCs Chip Hanback and Rick Mathis to
                                                                         shipped  to  Nova  Scotia  and  he  and
  the Hanbacks' garage where car talk was the order of the day.
                                                                         his  father  drove  it  back  to  Ontario.
  Below: Barb Hanback takes a closer look at this Modern MG.

                                                                         On this trip, Neil drove to Pittsburgh for a
                                                                         car show, then put in  14 hours more on
                                                                         the                                    road
                                                                         to drive the Tail of the Dragon.

                                                                         After  visiting  us  he's   headed  for
                                                                         the  Florida  Panhandle  to  meet  with
                                                                         another  club  and  says  he   plans  to
                                                                         return next year to make one of our club
                                                                         events.

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