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MG, the quintessential British sports car maker, has been producing affordable, fun-to-drive roadsters since 1924. The MGA, MGB, and Midget are beloved by enthusiasts worldwide.

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Melbourne, FL

1954 MG TF 1500

$28,000

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Augusta-Richmond County, GA

1951 MG TD

$16,995 16,000 miles

Portland (Oregon), OR

Frequently Asked Questions about Classic MG

MG stands for Morris Garages, the Oxford car sales and service business owned by William Morris, later Lord Nuffield. It was separate from Morris Motors, the company that built Morris cars. Under general manager Cecil Kimber, Morris Garages began selling its own sportier versions of Morris models in the early 1920s, using the firm's initials inside an octagon that appeared in its advertising by 1924.

MG was started by Cecil Kimber at Morris Garages in Oxford in the early 1920s, with no single agreed founding date. Kimber became general manager in 1922 and had Morris chassis fitted with sportier bodies. By 1924 the firm was advertising these cars as MGs, and the company later treated 1924 as its starting year. Kimber's 1925 trials car, Old Number One, came after those first cars. The M.G. Car Company was formed in 1928.

Classic MG sports cars were built at Abingdon-on-Thames, England. The earliest MGs were assembled in Oxford, at Alfred Lane and later at Edmund Road in Cowley. MG moved into part of the former Pavlova leather works at Abingdon in 1929, and the MG Car Club dates the first M-type Midgets built there to early 1930. The T-series, MGA, MGB and Midget all came from Abingdon, which closed in October 1980.

William Morris owned MG personally until 1935, when he sold it to his own Morris Motors. The 1952 merger of Morris's Nuffield Organization with Austin put MG inside the British Motor Corporation, whose successor British Motor Holdings merged with Leyland in 1968 to form British Leyland. The name later passed to the Rover Group and then to MG Rover, which collapsed in 2005. China's Nanjing Automobile bought the marque that year, and SAIC Motor took over Nanjing in 2007.

MG stopped selling new cars in the United States after the 1980 model year, when MGB production ended. British Leyland had announced in September 1979 that the Abingdon factory would close, and it shut on October 24, 1980. In Britain the MG badge returned in 1982 on sportier versions of the Austin Metro, later joined by the Maestro and Montego, and no new MG sports car appeared until the RV8 of 1992.

Specialist buyer's guides describe classic MGs as mechanically simple and fairly robust, with body condition the bigger concern. Hagerty's UK guides call the T-series fairly robust mechanically and the MGB fairly sound, while warning about rot in the ash body frame of a T-series car and rust in MGB sills. Classic & Sports Car names rust as the main threat to an MGB and notes strong parts support.

The T-series Midgets were MG's two-seat sports cars built from 1936 to 1955. The TA arrived in 1936 with a 1,292 cc engine, and the 1939 TB introduced the 1,250 cc XPAG engine that carried over to the TC of 1945-1949 and the TD, built from late 1949 to 1953. The TF followed in 1953, and the later TF 1500 used a 1,466 cc engine. The MGA replaced the line in 1955.

The MG TC was built only with right-hand drive, and the TD was the first T-series model offered with left-hand drive. About 10,000 TCs were made from 1945 to 1949, and roughly 2,000 of them were sold in the United States with the wheel on the right. The TD also brought independent front suspension and rack-and-pinion steering. MG built 29,664 TDs, and most of them went to the United States.

The 105 MG listings on Classic Cars Arena right now are priced from $3,500 to $70,000, with a median asking price of $14,500. These are the prices sellers are asking today, not sale prices, and the figures change as cars are listed and sold.

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