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Location: Texas | 1954 MG needs more work :mad:
Up for sale
1982 collectors series - very mint, has original split cables and COA. Case is in very good condition
1974 1112-4 Ovation Balladeer - never played - new as the day it was made. Beautiful guitar and has a deep mellow sound about 32 years.
1985 collectors series - was told it was mint but it has a few surface cracks on top and a small chip on headstock. Still plays wonderful.
Considering selling my 1981 Adamas II 1681-8 - has made a trip to the mother ship - new frets, fret board was lightly sanded, top was cleaned and electronics checked out - beautiful condition. Not sure if I want to sell this one but it depends on the on going and never ending cost on the MG.
If interested in any of the above - pm me with offers - I believe all of them are on my photo gallery. Help a Classic MG out LOL |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Sell the MG and buy more guitars. I think I know someone who is interested in a 1681-8. I won't tell you his name, but his initials are BegginJIM. ;) |
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Location: Texas | Jim - that would be the best thing to do - sell the MG - but it is now the principle of the thing - she will not beat me. LOL |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | Guess that cures my lifelong MG yearning... |
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Location: closely held secret | I had a short fling with an MG back in the early 70's... got tired of having to stop every 30 miles and tighten everything (both me and the car). |
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Location: Upper Left USA | My first car was a 1963 Austin Healey Sprite. It wasn't the "Bug-Eye" model but a mass produced MG predecessor with a whopping 948cc four-popper and multiple spare windows and tops.
My first guitar was a 1974 Custom Balladeer 1112-1 similar to yours!
I still have the guitar and it was one of my better choices!
Please email me about the 1112-4! |
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Location: NW Washington State | When I was in high school I had a 63 or 64 Sprite, think it was an 1100. Lots of fun- you felt like you were going really fast because it was so small and close to the ground. I found a gutted Bugeye and was going to make one car out of two, but ended up selling both to get an MGA. I wish I had an MGA coupe or a big Austin Healy. Instead I have my wife's Nash Metropolitan- built by Austin.
My cousin rebuilt an MGB from the ground up. It leaked constantly. I remember towing it home after it had puked all of its oil in a parking lot.
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Location: South of most, North of few | If an MG quits leaking oil.....it's out of oil. |
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Location: Texas | Yep, I get concerned when I drive her and do not see oil spots on the garage floor later - MG's love to mark their territory - much like my dog.
But she is so dang pretty
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Location: NJ | wow |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | Ooo, that's very nice. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | It needs a wood pickg... dashboard!
Nice! |
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | Dunno Woody, she looks purty fantastic as is! |
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Location: Texas | Hmmmmmm pickguard on the dashboard - ah.... NO LOL |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | That definitely is a keeper. You wouldn't have to maintain it if you just sat there looking at it. I know lots of people that do that with much more modern cars. |
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Location: NJ | I know lots of people that do that with GUITARS!! . . . |
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Location: Texas | I am one of those people Cliff LOL |
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Location: NJ | y'I noticed that . . . |
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| Now whats cooler than a Chick from Texas who drives a classic convertable and loves Ovation guitars! Post some photo's Kid these guy's like looking at the pictures not reading all the words.
Nice car! Would not be a good car for NY though
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Location: NJ | ". . Now whats cooler than a Chick from Texas who drives a classic convertable and loves Ovation guitars! . ."
I dunno . . .
A chick from Bermuda who sails her own twin-masted schooner and has a discerning palette for fine rums?? . . .
(That might do it for me) |
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| Originally posted by cliff:
". . Now whats cooler than a Chick from Texas who drives a classic convertable and loves Ovation guitars! . ."
I dunno . . .
A chick from Bermuda who sails her own twin-masted schooner and has a discerning palette for fine rums?? . . .
(That might do it for me) Either one (or both if you're rich enough). |
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| Yeah but the one from Texas is real Cliff. |
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Location: Texas | Okay - I am a chick from Texas that drives a classic red convertible, loves ovation/Adamas guitar along with hand made custom guitars, believes you can never have enough guitars and loves football and basketball and doesn't mind watching them all day Sunday. :)
Now will someone buy these gutiars so I can continue to drive this classic red convertible before it breaks down again LOL |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | And a very nice collection it is too...you go girl!
Great MG! |
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| Originally posted by vision:
Okay - I am a chick from Texas that drives a classic red convertible, loves ovation/Adamas guitar along with hand made custom guitars, believes you can never have enough guitars and loves football and basketball and doesn't mind watching them all day Sunday. :)
Now will someone buy these gutiars so I can continue to drive this classic red convertible before it breaks down again LOL If I wasn't happily married you'd have flowers on the way right now. |
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Location: Texas | g8r - I like yellow roses LOL and send a pizza with them. :D |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | The "Yellow Rose of Texas" eh? :D |
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Location: Texas | Very good Aussie - the state flower :) |
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Location: Texas | Actually that would be the blue bonnet but I say the yellow rose LOL |
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | Back on topic:
How 'bout some pics of the GUITARS Leslie. ;) :p :D
We love pics!!!!! :cool: |
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Location: big island | Originally posted by BegginJIM:
Back on topic:
How 'bout some pics of the GUITARS Leslie. ;) :p :D
We love pics!!!!! :cool: hey jimmy!
check out vision's gallery for the guitar pics. |
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Location: Texas | I guess I could get off my butt and put the pictures up. 1982 Collector Series, comes with original split cable and COA - Case is in very good condition.
   
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Location: Texas | 1981 1681-8 - was sent to mother ship - new fret job, sanded fret board, new machine heads, cleaned body - beautiful guitar.
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Location: Texas | Last one for now - 1112-4 Custom Balladeer - it has probably been played 20 mintues in the last 34 years - showroom mint.
 
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Location: CA | Not to take away anything at all from the car, but that is a fiberglass replica of MG's finest, is it not? If so, then I'm assuming it's fiberglass and sits on a modern chassis and running gear — and that it is actually dependable. Best of all worlds.
I can tell the Ovations are the real thing! |
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Location: Texas | OddBall - she is the real deal - if it was a replica - I wouldn't be spending so much money on her. LOL - She is now 54 years old - and grumpy :) |
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Location: NJ | Besides, a fibreglass car couldn't live in Texas . . . |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I wouldn't call a kit car the best of all worlds anyway. They usually accurately replicate all the problems, pick up some new ones from the attempt to mate the old and new and rarely hold their value.
I hope that's not true of reissue guitars. |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | There is a big difference between a reissue and replica. |
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Location: The State of Hockey | I went to the 2000 MG nationals. That was so great to see all the old MGs. A, B, TD, TF, TC. Nice sunny day, warm. Man do I miss nice sunny days. It was -14 degrees today.
Vision love the MG. |
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| Great guitars and fine car...
Like mwoody, my first was an austin healey - bought the car before I had a license. NOTHING like a classic convertible. |
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Location: Texas | AWWWW - I would love to have a classic Austin Healey - there is nothing like the sound that car puts out. 1963 Austin Healey 3000 - where is that damn lotto ticket. lol |
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| Hey you gotta teach me how to do that trick with the multi photo's someday. I am more impressed with this than the car or the guitars. Technologically challenged people are easily impressed.
My photo's are the worst. |
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | Thanks for the Guitar pics Leslie...they look great. Someone should buy one or all of these. Leslie's MG needs some lovin'! :D :D ;) |
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Location: Texas | Acutally - it needs a new back axle - forget the lovin. lol
People - you can counter offer - I have gotten many PM's but no one is doing what Americans do- deal!!!! :D |
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Location: NJ | Why not just save time/trouble and list your selling price(s)? . . . |
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Location: Texas | They ask, I tell them and they say - too much for me LOL - just counter - with the way the market is- no one knows how to price a guitar or anything else. I give up lol |
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Location: Texas | :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Beggin, you did see that nice blue 1681, didn't you. I know you want it....Beggin...money's going for a good cause. |
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | Indeed it is TJ, but the UTE just refuses to leave and the funds ain't there for this one, or anyone right now. I'll just keep savin and lookin...... |
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | Hang in there BegginJimBob, when TraderJimBo makes the (partial) trade for my GC Artist.....You and me can workout a trade fer da UTE! |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | Hi Vision,
You may want to post some pictures. Guys can't seem to stay focused without pictures. |
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Location: Texas | Bvince - all the pics are up - page one or two |
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Location: East Tennessee | Originally posted by bvince:
Guys can't seem to stay focused without pictures. Sometimes even that doesn't help. :confused: |
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Location: Texas | Okay - no one is interested so I guess off to Ebay and hope for the best - thanks to everyone that PM'd me. |
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