After reading through this topic on a cold and potentially rainy Saturday morning, I thought I’d toss out the best kept secret in all of classic sports cars. Keep it to yourselves, okay? We want to keep them on the road and not flipped by investors at Mecum auctions or hidden away in private collections.
No surprise here, I’m talking about British cars. Specifically Triumph and MG.
Yes, we have all heard the jokes and outright lies about reliability and electrical issues, but they aren’t true. Funny thing is, trash talk has kept most of them cheap, underused, and way off the blue chip collector and auction radar. This means you could have a dozen beautiful sports cars for half the price of one Porsche or Tesla.
Most Triumphs and MGs are cheap as chips, easier to work on than a go kart and parts are incredibly cheap and are still being made in Britain, not Chinese reproductions.
And they are fun!!! When you see a sharp corner in a Spitfire 1500 with a downdraft Weber, for example, you don’t lift off the loud pedal, you floor it!
Testimonial time! I own 7 British sportscars, 5 are reliable, beautiful, rust free, good running cars. One needs the paint finished and reassembly and one is this winter’s complete restoration project.

Probably the most important thing to know is that classic British car owners drive their cars. Their cars aren’t trailer queens and never will be. It’s also a completely different attitude from Muscle, Ricer, and Antique car collectors.
“Rock chips? Dirt? Rain? Ha! That just means it’s doing what it was made to do! Polish your plastic coated turds, boys! A hairy chested man is going for a drive in a real sportscar down a dirt road in a thunderstorm!”
That pretty much the stereotype of a British sportscar owner, but we aren’t all like that.

It’s raining out, I think I’ll take out the TR7 today.