[quote]My first sports car was a Singer, don't forget them. With their over head cam engines, in the 30s & 40s they were better than anything Morris Garages put out as road cars. It is a pity they were so broke after the war, that they were still producing cars with mechanical brakes into the 50s. I then owned a 1940 MG TB, a more swish model with wind up windows, followed by a TC & a TF. It was only after I got the TF that I realised what a dreadful handling thing a TC on 19" by 3" inch wheels really was. Despite this, they are such a beautiful thing you can't help love them. Like Jaguar, their styling was just right, including the A, up to the pretty bland MG B. TRs 2 & 3 were to me ugly things, as was the bug eye sprite. The look was not cute, just cheap. Even the 4, which looked good had that terrible tractor engine in it, as did my Morgan +4 in the 60s. With hugely heavy lumps of cast iron between their front wheels of all the British sports cars, we got them to go around corners despite their design, rather than because of it. I remember the revelation of driving a Turner & a Morgan 4/4, with the brilliant, light Ford 115E Cortina engine in them. With a bit of Cosworth magic added that was a sports car engine. What a pity BMC did not have anything like it. So MGs beautiful, but lacking, TRs ugly until the later cars which were very handsome. If only they had been put together properly, when they had the world at their feet, we would still have those companies building something we might want.[/quote] Well I don't know, hasbeen. I think the TR2 and TR3 were very pretty indeed. In fact, in the 1960 Italian comedy-drama film, "La Dolce Vita" (Italian for "the good life" or "the sweet life") with Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg, Mastroianni's character, Marcello Rubini, the main character in the film, drove, not an Alfa Romeo, but a Triumph TR3A, which give's the idea just how much glamour cars like these had. And, just a dab of irony, the TR3A, a plucky British sports car, that was the star of an Italian film, was in fact, styled by... an Italian, Giovanni Michelotti, who was mostly affiliated with Triumphs during his design career. Cop a load of that.