It amuses me that a lot of the cars that many of us saw on the roads every day in our youth are now museum pieces. I owned two of the models in the photos; Herald and MGB.
Must be getting old.
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In 1977 i had a soft top Herald. The nearside door lock was faulty, which meant the door kept swinging open on roundabouts….the good old days. 
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Yesterday - through Ribchester, up to Garstang and out to the Fylde coast via a twisty route. A walk and fish & chips at Lytham, followed by a run through Blackpool illuminations and a top down night time drive back home.
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That happened to me when I was a kid in my uncles Herald! 
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Sounds like a common fault with Heralds.
Mine was a soft top 13/60, my first car. Didn’t have the door problem though. I feel cheated now.
The MGs were roadsters and it was great to get back to open top motoring with the MX-5 after I retired, after a succession of tin-roof vehicles.
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Not just them.
My sister’s lime green frog-eyed Sprite did that too; at (maybe) ten years old the chassis flexed so much you could open a door just by jacking up any one corner of the car. And this was in dust-dry Africa where there was zero rust.
Her husband stiffened the chassis by seam-welding extra bracing into it and thickening up relevant places where he could see factory welds popping open or cracking.
All this was after re-welding for the third time the front cross-member where it joined the chassis rails!
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It’s a good job “They don’t make ‘em like that any more”
Being caught with a jack in the boot would be “going equipped!”.
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Having to go everywhere in the 5 at the mo.
The other car has been trapped behind a skip for over a month - on the bright side …
IT’S SO MUCH FUN!!!
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Just back from a lovely out-and-back-with-loop drive, from Bristol up into the edge of the Cotswolds.
I like to see how many other MX5s I spot on trips, ideally seeing one from each generation 
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Today I had the complete set:
2x NAs
1x NB
1x NC
3x NDs
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First run out since we did the NC500 in September, to Swanage for a short break and return.
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So more of a last few weeks than today.
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road trip through Brittany area. Starting in St malo, down towards benodet area before back up to north coast via amorique national park ( D785 great road through there particularly from pleyben on heading north ) and across northern Brittany coast back via Cherbourg. Did the trip with my dad who drives a boxster so we did a bit of car swapping and I’d take the MX-5 all day! Boxster with flappy paddles etc is not the same experience
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track day at Bedford autodrome. Used the ND to get me to track and then shared a day in BC motorsports MX-5 NC race car with 4 mates. Tuition all day, felt huge improvements from my first track experience in morning to last session in evening and BC really pushes you
An approx 5000 mile season this year.
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Drove down to a friend’s wedding in Market Drayton in Shropshire yesterday. A lovely drive down through the Cheshire lanes, and a chance to thoroughly enjoy our NC after having various bits of work done on it this summer.
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Spent the weekend at my brother’s house in Street sorting out a mountain of paperwork following the passing of my wife last weekend.
Got some cider from a local farm shop,which was nice
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Our condolences mate.
Thankyou
Thinking of matey. 
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