At the 2008 Techno Classica in Essen, German classic car dealer Christoph Dorscheid found a novel way of advertising his wares. Just nail a lot of MGA parts to the wall and you've got a lovely decoration.

When MG in Abingdon produced the 100.000th MGA it was of course a special occasion. They made this one very special with gold metallic paint, white leather interior and white lamb’s wool carpet. Also there were three “100.000” insignias on the car. It was long thought that this car had vanished after it had been exhibited on the 1962 New York Motor Show. Only recently it reappeared. It had been sold after the show and remained in one family for all those years. The image shown here is a model made by RAE in 1:43 scale in 1996. It was available in kit form or ready built. I wonder if it is still available somewhere?

There have been more models of the MGA. Left an MGA 1600 made by Revell in 2003. Below several others...

Meet the Geico Gecko. He’s very famous. You’ve have never heard of him? Then you’re obviously not a resident of the USA. Geico Gecko works as spokesman for Geico, an American company that sells insurance. The strange thing in this picture is of course not the Gecko but the MGA. Ever seen one with door handles?

Several countries issued stamps that feature an MGA. This example dates from 1984 and was issued in Portugal to commemorate the Rally of Madeira. Notice that the stamp shows a 1500 or 1600 MGA coupé, while the first-day envelope shows a Twin Cam. More stamps with MG's can be found on the website of Willem van der Veer.

With digital camera's now in use by almost everyone, the old-fashioned photo-film is rapidly disappearing. From those by-gone days is this Kodak film bag that was used to send your film roll to the developer

Long before World War II, the comic duo Piet Muyselaar en Willy Walden was extremely popular in Holland. Apart from their theatre shows dressed as the women miss Snip and miss Snap, they also appeared in commercials. Like this photograph for Philips car radio’s made in the 1950’s in which they used their own cars: Piet Muyselaar on the right in his Humber Super Snipe and on the left Willy Walden in his MG Magnette ZA.





Photo found on mijn oude auto (in Dutch only)

Eighteen Old English White Tourers in a 30 second TV promotion. In the Safety Fast! issue of January 1986, the late Dennis Ogborn of the MGA-register wrote of an experience he had when he was asked to participate in a TV-commercial for Embassy Panatella Slim Cigars. The advertising company had an idea in which a string of exactly the same Old English White MGA tourers stuck a ford with one actually in the water… along comes a chap in a red Ford Cortina, sees what is causing the delay, gets out of his car, lights up the Panatella, pumps up his wheels to balloons and then drives past the queue, into the ford, past the stranded MGA and out on the other side. The whole exercise proving that: “…only if you smoke Embassy Slim Panatellas can you overcome such difficulties.”